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with more on this, paul howard, senior fellow of a director of manhattan institute center for medicaless. welcome back to the show. you know, we see this revolving door all the time. but this is like unbelievable crony capitalism. >> people who are in the backroom writing the bill know what it meant. gerri: top dollars here, potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars. they are paying for this and they know the staff of congress, they can pass things on to their clients see one they will have to explain it to god knows how many attorneys if they can't do it. they will just say something about the complexity of obamacare. >> we have this revolving door, big companies, big money, big lobbyists. they control the direction of the legislation. >> we thought the law really benefits a lot of the vested interest here. >> hospital industries, the insurance industry, they all benefit from the expansion of coverage. gerri: we had some polls this week. 50% of those surveys are concerned about their personal health under obamacare here we are enriching the people that wrote along the first place.

with us now paul howard. welcome back to the show. what do you make of this?e goes an afl-cio affiliate saying we don't like this law. why are they so adamant? >> this particular union, they want a single payer. a number of other large unions have said this is killing the 40-hour workweek. gerri: which is true. >> and they want more subsidies. they won obamacare to give subsidies to union. gerri: let's pick up that last point. benefits are so wonderful that people flock to them. >> starting in 2018 you will have a cadillac tax. also, once these changes get up and running, employers can say, let's stop paying and send them to the east changes. gerri: an interesting turn about. the more people is see the details of obamacare up close the more frightened people are. i want you to respond. the president of the afl-cio had this to say about the move. >> the affordable care act is a major step in the right direction. we made some mistakes along the way. it still needs to be tweaked. it was not thought completely through. gerri: he sounds like a republican. >> let's

here to drill down for details of the health care rx and you, paul howard, manhattan institute of medicalrogress. welcome to the show. >> thank you. melissa: there is panicking question abou what is going on and it is scary for lot of people. we're reading article after article this morning, i was reading about three, people showed their health care plan and total told it would triple next year and they knew somebody's tripled and want to lock in the health care plan now. how do you make the decision? you. >> to figure out whether you're eligible for subsy dis. melissa: let's start there. how do you figure out if you're eligible for subsidies? >> subsidies are available to families that make 138 and 400% of the federal poverty level, for a family of four means up to $90,000 a year. melissa: if you make less than $90,000 and family of four you will get a subsidy? >> what the subsidy caps out-of-pocket costs at certain percentage of yo income. that person at 400% of federal poverty, $90,000, max out-of-pocket cost for premiums, 9.5%, or $9500 a year. so if you can find a plan that sts less

paul took his campaign of overincarceration to howard, a historically black college. >> the idea that federal sentences should have no depression. our federal mandatory minimum sentences are heavy-handed and arbitrary. >> reporter: does not represent gop but signs a new thinking spreading. jacob writes for "reason" magazine. >> texas, a tough on crime state, we've started to see sentencing reform where there's alliance between progressives and conservatives both of whom agree this is a waste of money and not right. >> reporter: in the past year alabama, tennessee, georgia have each reduced harsh sentencing and each are republican-run legislatures. conservative states validating a liberal critique, laws tough on criminals are often just tough on the poor and racial minorities. >> first of all send people away to prison who don't belong there. it's a waste of criminal justice resources, if these people don't pose a threat to the general public. secondly, it's unjust. this is a point that progressives have made for a long time and conservatives have come around to that point of view. >>

howard. in the news right now, five years after bernard madoff's scheme was uncovered. his accountant paul been arrested. he is the 15th person charged in relation to that ponzi scheme. >>> two arrests in one of the deadliest outbreaks of illness in 25 years. brothers eric and mikesewn owned jensen farms in colorado. they're accused of knowingly selling contaminated melons that led to a 2011 listeria outbreak that killed 33 people. they have since gone bankrupt. >>> mcdonald's is launching a new campaign to help childhood obesity. yesterday the company announced a pledge to promote only water, milk and juice with its happy meals. not soda. they also plan to use happy meal packaging to generate excitement for fruits and vegetables. they're going to try it anyway. mcdonald's says the new changes are going to happen in major markets around the world including here in the united states. it will be fully implemented by 2020. >>> it is 6:53. time to answer the question of the morning -- >> our facebook friend sandra mills boyd wrote c. you can't trust the opposite sex around you and your partner

politically speaker, rand paul is a descendant of the mid 20th senator, ohio's robert taft. his dad was a politician, too. president william howardson robert coined at the time, mr. republican, was known for his isolationist foreign poly. he opposed the marshall plan and didn't want the u.s. to join nato. his views didn't take hole because for the past few decades, the grand old party, the breeding grounds of hawks and neocons has been the crowd that brought you special moments like this. >> grenada was a friendly paradise for tourism. it wasn't. it was a soviet cuba colony being made ready for terror and to undermine democracy. we got there just in time. >> as i report to you. air attacks are underway against military targets in iraq. we are determined to knock out saddam hussein's nuclear bomb potential. we will also destroy his chemical weapons facilities. much of saddam's artillery and tanks will be destroyed. >> on my orders, coalition forces have begun striking selected targets of military importance to undermine saddam hussein's ability to wage war. >> fast forward to 2013. this year the loudest republican voices led by ra

lot lotys who know about silly talking.ta chris paul and hugy low down, they're on the radio and they'rh on t.v. and they have a live a v show at the howardst they will sit down with our funny guy tony perkins.. it will be quite a trio here. he >> a low down on a sit-com. how about that.th >> first we want to turn our tun attention to tucker barnes who n has the good word on the weath weather. >>> cloudy conditions to start the morning. dy c nice pattern, mid-sphisz, mild conditions this afternoon, -- mid-70s, mild mild conditions this afternoon, andd no rain in sight. nothing to complain about. a bu civil sunrise this morningo it's a little cool for a fewfew people, julie wright. 54, she pretty much lets you know every 15 minutes. we're looking more in the way of cloudiness, it's the high, thin variety that we get occasionally and a system that we see to theo right. are not concerned with rainshowers, otherwise a generally nice day, seasonal temperatures, mid-70s, not a noa whole lot of humidity out therer 76 the daytime in washington, wn will be cool with the clouds the moving through, and then right back into the sunshine tomorrow and