your online with joanne kenen. president obama symbolically signed up with the washington, d.c., plan. that wasbroad plan $400 a month. i was really stunned. about 1000 employees. we have insurance. my monthly premium is like $100, about $125 per month. ishospitalization deductible -- the one thing about our plan, we do not have maternity because 10% of our employees are women. i am just wondering, with the new health-care plan, we will probably have to take on maternity. that will probably cause our rates to go up. how is thatndering type of situation going to affect certain company like ours , a freight company, who does not have a lot of female employees and now we will have to probably take on maternity. cause the other 90% house rates to go up. if taking on maternity causes your rates to go up, it will not cause them to go up that much. there will have to be more mental health coverage for people. and you cover more -- i don't know if your company covers spouses or just a worker, but if it is family coverage a

kenen,ing with joanne politico's healthcare editor.esterday,ou wrote this one early in the morning at 9:00 in the morning. and there has been a couple of more pieces you have written politico andr politico pro as well. she is here to take your calls the affordablen care act and implementation effort going on and we have a line set up for folks recently enrolled. 202-585-3883. the line waiting is bruce from walter burrow, south carolina. an independent. thanks for joining us this morning. >> thank you very much. make a couple of brief comments. i tried to sign up when system the program first opened and everybody knows the nightmare so i won't go through there. i decided to wait and give the chance to fixe a it. i enrolled yesterday. on it, butot of time ton, most of that time was shopping plans, not signing up. i had a pretty pleasurable experience to be honest with you. looking at the dental part wasn't but that wasn't that important to me. will do that later. i called my sister-in-law and her husband. i said i will sign you up so i s

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your online with joanne kenen. president obama symbolically signed up with the washington, d.c., plan. that wasbroad plan $400 a month. i was really stunned. about 1000 employees. we have insurance. my monthly premium is like $100, about $125 per month. ishospitalization deductible -- the one thing about our plan, we do not have maternity because 10% of our employees are women. i am just wondering, with the new health-care plan, we will probably have to take on maternity. that will probably cause our rates to go up. how is thatndering type of situation going to affect certain company like ours , a freight company, who does not have a lot of female employees and now we will have to probably take on maternity. cause the other 90% house rates to go up. if taking on maternity causes your rates to go up, it will not cause them to go up that much. there will have to be more mental health coverage for people. and you cover more -- i don't know if your company covers spouses or just a worker, but if it is family coverage a