greta: i will have mary agnes carey answer. turn up your tv and listen. mary: i apologize for the loss of your mother. i have gone through that myself. i also want to express my concern about the various medical injuries you have and how difficult those are for you. it sounds like you definitely need some medical treatment. here is the difficulty, if you are homeless, my assumption is you do not have income or if you do, it is low. florida did not expand the medicaid program under the affordable care act. this was made optional for states. what the affordable care act does is take the medicaid expansion and they expand medicaid up to 138% of poverty. again, that was optional. if you make less than 100% of the poverty line, and that is around $11,000, and my feeling is that is your category, you cannot even qualify for a subsidy to get covered in the federal exchange. florida is a federal exchange. here is my advice. there are many community health centers throughout the country that received additional funding with affordable care act. they might be able t

we are joined by mary agnes carey to talk a little bit more about this subsidy issue and the health careaw in general. let's begin with why did congress include subsidy in the first place? anna: mary: we wanted to help people afford health insurance. if you look at the bridge between income levels for 100 to 400% of poverty with subsidies are aimed at, for an individual that is about 11,700 to 11 -- two around $7,000. family sized, that amount will grow. the thought is, if you help provide subsidies at a financial assistance, you will get more people involved and more people covered, which was one of the main goals. greta: who are we talking about? who gets the subsidy? mary: many of these people are people who purchased and could not get insurance on the individual market. they are out there buying on their own. if you get health care coverage at work and it is deemed to be comprehensive and affordable, you cannot apply to get a subsidy. most of these people, the people buying their own health insurance, maybe they do not get more care coverage at work or they have their own business an

. >> ifill: here to explain the deal and how it would work, is mary agnes carey of kaiser health news. there have been 17 patches, fix, temporary fixes for this over the years. it's not a new problem. what changed this time? >> a couple years ago members of the house and the senate bipartisan member of the relevant committees came together and decided a policy on how to move forward the pay medicare physicians. they could never find the money to fix it. now what's happened is there has been bipartisan agreement in the house to simply say we're not going to finance some of this repeal of the medicare payment formula, about $141 billion to the deficit. there are some things they are financing, but they decided this is a hole that's never createed it's not one we have to fill and we agree to just not finance it. >> ifill: part of the fix is paying doctors for quality of care rather than quantity. >> the current program incentivized pi -- physicians to do more services. the repeal takes a five-year path to paying physicians on the quality of care rather than the quantity. >> ifill: not on

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we will be talking with mary agnes carey.e are talking about the arguments in front of the supreme court today. you can see that folks have lined up outside of the supreme court, waiting to get one of those limited public seats. our guest will be heading over to supreme court -- to the supreme court after he is done here. how will you be covering the hearing today? >> as c-span viewers know, there are no cameras that transmit supreme court arguments. when we go into the courtroom no electronics. we can bring a pad and a pen but that is it. the way we are going to do it is that we will have three correspondents attending today. two of them will leave before the argument is over and very quickly write up their impressions and report of what took lace at the earlier -- what took place at the earlier portions of the argument. we will be logging -- we will be blogging that very quickly. you will get a sense of the argument, we hope, within a few minutes after it ends. it will be a live feed on our website, wsj.com. then we will be