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abc news political director rick klein joins us. >> hi, greta. >> high deductibles does what for you.ld silver and bronze packages out there. bronze very cheap per month but the problem is very high deductible? >> high how about. >> 5,000 or 6,000 a year on average. a the love folks who didn't have health insurance before, they are going online and see the cheapest plan out there thinking i can afford that 50, 60 bucks on month. if they access the services they will find out they are paying out of pocket incredible amounts. >> $5,000, that can be a game changer for a lot of americans. >> talking about someone who makes $40,000 a year that's a big chunk when you figure that on top of the money they are already paying into the health insurance program. it's kind of a double sticker shock. we have heard a lot about the premiums that are happening on the front end when you see the prices and you say wow this is more than i thought we would be paying. kind of how the system was designed. because you are supposed to have that option to say all right, i'm going to have a low premium but high

abc news political director rick klein joins us. how are we doing on those goalpo goalposts? >> they moved to a different field basically. he's technically right. if the program works the way it is supposed to, what it means is right number of younger and older and sicker people sign up and it works but the larger point, the reason you passed obama care in the first place was to expand for more people this opportunity. the congressional budget office saying 7 million people, the estimate for the first year. if all of this is about a couple hundred ,0 thousand people, this is a big big deal for not a lot. >> if we have 365,000 who have signed up, if we divide that into the 318 million or 50 million, this is rather expensive project we have had. 5 million people lost their insurance policies. >> yeah. >> in order to have insurance by january 1st, you have to sign up by december 23rd and they have to go some place, right? they have to go some place between now and the 23rd. and only 365,000 have done anything. and what's the capacity of that website? probably not that. what happ

washington examiner susan and rick klein also a crowd favorite.ks so much for joining me, everybody. steve, let me start with you. these benefits are for long-term unemployed. they were temporarily extended. 11 times they have been extended and the congress continues to fight this battle because republicans say they want it paid for. democrats say that they should just be able to move forward without having the deficit reduction. >> right. and i think there is a third argument which is is that you hear from conservatives and libertarians which is that long-term unemployment benefits often cause long-term unemployment, not only help the people who are among the long-term unemployed by giving them incentives to stay on government assistance rather than getting out and looking for work. i think we are hearing that argument made more and more these days as the economy seems to be picking up. >> there was dissidents in the president's press conference a week ago today when he spent the first several minutes touting that the growing and strengthening ec

and joining us from washington, our political panel abc news political director rick klein, "the washingtont" national political correspondent karen and the hill's cammeron joseph. this sort of feels like guest hosting with friends. i'm glad that you could join me tonight. karen, let me start with you. polls like this, you have covered several presidential elections. too early, of course, to be prickive. does it tell us anything about the upcoming race? >> i think all they really tell you at this point is whose name people recognize when they they a lunch of-i a listing of names in a poll. chris christie in particular, i think there is probably nothing that you can say about him at this point that you couldn't have said about rudy giuliani in 2007. and hillary clinton, you know, we have seen this before. you know, if you want to be a political writer and keep yourself humble go back and read your old stories. i was reading mine from september of 2007 about how her lead was double digits and just insurmountable. >> and, rick, you actually think that in this poll where democrats say that they