john: lawrence hurley, the subsidy issue still up in the air.f you could walk us through a little bit more of the crux of this case? guest: sure. the government has said the way that the federal exchanges set up is designed to encourage people, as many people as possible, to get health insurance. one of the ways the government was seeking to encourage more people to be involved and that is to provide -- the subsidies, which make it a lot more makes it a lot more and foldable -- provide the subsidies, which makes it a lot more affordable. the government says people can get health insurance as low as $100 a month with the subsidies and without the subsidies, it would be more like an average of 200 and $70 -- $270. so they say that, you know, the whole system would not really work if you get rid of the subsidies because obviously the whole point -- the holy that insurance works is to pool risk here so it cannot threaten the whole premise of what the of what will care act was designed to do. john: we have about 15 minutes left with lawrence hurley,

host: we have about 15 minutes left with lawrence hurley. south plainfield, new jersey is next, line for independence. caller: my concern is that we are so polarized in this country. when you're angry you lose focus about what is right and what is wrong to we are so concerned with ourselves, that we are not thinking about the country, and progress in this country. i was in the hospital a few years ago and i had a charge for dr. i hadn't seen. when i questioned the bill, i was told the doctor was on call and had to be paid. my question was, if we had 100 people in the hospital for that weekend, is it 100 times, 100 something dollars? that raise questions. with the affordable care act, we have opportunity for better coverage. we can be of much better nation if we just think about each other as being one. thank you very much. host: concerns about polarizing the country, perhaps no more polarized than on the days that some of these big decisions will come down. can you talk about some of your experiences as a supreme court reporter on some of th

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