when we began the process, some 640,000 people in kentucky were uninsured. that is almost one in six kentuckians. and, folks, these are not some group of aliens or make distant planet. distantiens from a planet. these are our friends and our neighbors. these are people we go to church with on sunday, we shop in the grocery with during the week, we sit in the bleachers on friday night and watch our kids play football or soccer. we hunt with them, we fish with them. they are farmers on the tractor. they are substitute teachers. they are seasonal construction workers. they are nurses' aides. they are new graduates that high-tech startups. they are grocery clerks. i tell some of the other kentucky leaders all the time you would be surprised at how many of kentucky's uninsured that you know. and for the uninsured, the lack of health coverage puts their health and financial security at risk. these folks get up every morning and go to work, just hoping and praying they do not get sick. they have to choose sometimes between food and medicine. they skip visits to the

the folks that are uninsured are uninsured because it's not attractive for them to go out and buy insurance cost of the suffer rage because they are young people and otherwise healthy. they go and look at obamacare, it's still costly. >> you walk me through. i guess they have these self-insurance but they are supposed to pay a tax. if i'm not mistaken, they pay a cadillac tax and reinsurance tax and they are not getting a break -- i guess they get a break this year but not in 2015 and 2016 and they are very up in arms about this. why are they belly aching? they loved it and supported it? they campaigned for this. >> i think what they are worried about is the businesses dumping people into the exchanges and stopping coverage. it's going to make sense for the employer to stop offering coverage. what they really want is these plans. that's what they are talking about. they are worried about the tax on the plans and $70 per person fee that they have been exempted from for the time being. what they really want is federal subsidies to subsidizing as far as tax emt. >> that's right. do they have a

are uninsured before obama care. >> the poll is made up of interviews with 1500 uninsured americanscluding 450 who reported visiting the health exchanges. what is your take on this, julie? >> i can talk about guys. i don't agree of the 4 or 6 million uninsured on obama care. you are not talking about permanently insured thanks to obama care. they had cancelled plans and immediately got new plans. that is one. and two, go to sign up for any bureaucratic thing like obama care is like the dnb. the reality is, you have to look at how many people have health care, as guy points out. the administration said over 2 million in the exchanges and 4 million through medicare expansion and so you are having millions of americans despite the unpleasant experience of obama care and website are now insured. that is the metric. and the real metric will be on the end of march when the enrollment period is over. you might have a bad insurance in the dmv but you get a driver's license. and here you get health insurance. >> would you like obama care to fail? >> i don't think whethery want something to f

uninsured.we're about a third of the way, moving up into half of the way in medicaid of new enrollees. and in the number of ininsured in the state with the tax credit. i want to talk a little bit about lessons learned. the numbers have been all over the paper. everybody's focused on enrollment, enrollment, enrollment. there are some lessons we learned. there is some really important steps forward we need to take. there are going to be lessons learned at the federal level and state level. and there should be. number one is this kind of massive i.t. build and the implications of that. i think the difference in how we approach it has to be reflected on. we have to rethink at the government side how we do these things. for us in rhode island, we've been very fortunate. our system's working really well. we're moving to system stabilization as opposed to -- as opposed to fixing -- we're fixing, but as opposed to having to redo. that issue is the core of all of our businesses. it's essential lesson lea

now we have a lot more uninsured people. >> yes. have dealt with the problems in the healthcare system, rising costs, competitiveness, the rising costs of miamium and deductibles and so on, all of which were real problems. you could have dealt with that without nationalizing a sixth of the u.s. economy. you have to look at the real modification of obamacare. it had nothing to do with addressing healthcare or rising costs or health insurance, none of that came into play. this is a purely ideological move by the administration in order to game control over one-sixth of the u.s. economy because the healthcare sector is the largest lever to move the entire american economy away from a free market based economy toward a european style socialist system. they've done it in other aspects of the economy as well, in energy, the industrial base and so on, the financial sector, but the healthcare sector was the biggest of them all and that's why they went for it. they don't care about your health insurance or health care because that was not th

the whole point of this law was to insure the uninsured. so far they months into the enrollment period that's not happening. >> out of the 2.2 million, what percentage didn't have insurance before. >> we don't know specifically reports it's anywhere between 10 and 30%. >> which is low uninsured before. churn effect going. people who were insured previously, perhaps they had their insurance cancelled because it didn't meet obamacare standards so they got new insurance. >> but they liked it. >> perhaps they legalized they could get a subsidy. so they did that but the and perhaps this is also happening. some people are quickinging people off their company health plans because they can now buy insurance on the exchanges. so, bottom line is on the subject of insuring the uninsured it's not doing very well. >> hindsight we had 30 to 340 million who didn't have insurance. >> 48 million. >> it would have been better to figure out what to divoo with them instead of turning everybody upside down. >> of course this raises the whole promise if you like

the topic is regarding our realignment funds that we draw from the state to support services for uninsured health care to public health programs in the counties as part of the budget process at the state level last year. the state determined that because under the affordable care act and some new source of funding would be available. as part of the negotiation with the state which ultimately ended up in legislative form and assembly bill 85, the state allowed the county to select from two options about how the amount of realignment funds that would be taken back would be calculated. they have also required that for each county receive approval from it's governing board for which of those options it would select and that's why we are here before you today. the two options are essentially different formulas. one would be a flat contribution that would be fixed over 10 years, the other would be done according to a complex formula that takes into account our enrollment in the financial performance of the affordable care act. we have estimated under the first action will give back and under the

host: let's hear from doug on the line for uninsured in utah. caller: i am calling regarding your statement that health-care costs have dropped. my question is, i believe the reason why they're coming up with that cystic that health care has dropped is because they have cap to the economy snuffed down to the point people do not have jobs and cannot afford health care and even if they do have health care, they cannot afford to go to the doctor because they do not have jobs to pay for any of it. therefore, but not propping the economy up, they are able to say health care costs have gone down when they really have not. it is because no one has the money to even go to the doctor because there are no jobs to pay for it. host: hang on the line if you can. i want to follow-up. go ahead for our guest. guest: they have not gone down. guest: they have not gone down. the government is not saying the costs have gone down. they are still rising. the change is that they are not rising as fast as they used to. they are going up more or less in line with the ov

who prefer to remain uninsured. it is not that they don't know the program. but they don't like what they have sewn. increasing number of folks who are trying to find ways of avoiding enrolling in obama care and looking for other short- term emergency insurance products that are available. >> steve, great to so you. >> you bet, thanks. >>> a now report on whether or not the irs can handle its part in obama care. steve morandini heritage foundation and fox nows contributor. good afternoon to you. >> here is the story. >> we have had hundred mill 81 calls from customers and 20 million were not answered? >> yeah. yeah, and by the way, those who do get answers, you have to wait 20 or 30 minutes before someone answers the phone. the reason i said here we go again. doesn't this story sound familiar with what alisyn is talking about with the problems with obama care and the website? it is to the point where the government agencies, this is supposed to be a help line and frustrated taxpayers can call the irs to find out how

instead of the mission of insuring the uninsured. of the restrictions that were mentioned, folks are losing their coverage, having to go the exchanges and sign up for more expensive coverage with less choice. we're just rearranging deck chairs and meeting the mission that the president, you know, said that was why he was creating the affordable care act in the first place. >> gerri: you mentioned before people were omitting for something they thought was going to be affordable. it turned out not to be. the average deductible for the plans, the gold and silver plan, that is, $5,000 deductibles. at the end of the day the out of pocket costs are pretty darn high. it seems to me that a lot of people can't afford that. it. >> absolutely. the people we're talking about are people who don't have insurance through the employer. by definition, these are people with lower incomes. so when you say give up the insurance you've been paying for yourself that probably has about $1,000 deductible but doesn't cover all the things that the president s

. >> obamacare was supposed to help the uninsured but a new poll finds even the uninsured don't like it. 47% now having unfavorable opinion. allison, it begs the question, why are we even doing this if the people who it's supposed to help dope like it? >> it is an interesting survey, and one of he most thing interestings is within the group you have 38're of uninsured aren't sure what the exchanges are, and when you think about the millions of dollars the government has spent on navigators to inform and get people enrolled, they spent $684 million on ad campaigns to drum this up. so you still have a lot of people that, one, don't like it, and, two, some i'm don't know about the exchanges. it is shocking. >> allison, do the math, president obama claimed around 40 million people americans were uninsured. if almost 50% of those -- got to assume 15 to 25 million are unfavorable. why does this not bubble up in any republican running for election. >> people probably expected this to be a lot cheaper than it was, and i you have up to 400% of the federal poverty line you can be eligible for

they're spending that money if they go uninsured. the penalty, 1% of income, very small. so they can easily do the math and say i'm going to be paying more in premiums and expected health costs even if i go uninsured. the subsidies are targeted at those sickest and oldest leaving out the most profitable enroll lees sitting on the sidelines. >> in two ways ironically, the fact is that target and other employers putting people into these exchanges will help the risk pool. you know, long before obama was elected employers were spending less and less on employee health care and so it is -- it's understandable that you see people now coming into the exchange, some people are just, you know, voluntarily going in even if their employers are actually offering coverage. >> the trouble with that story though, to be honest with you paul -- or dan mendleson, as bob la chef ski has said, this was designed by academics and egg heads. they didn't go to the consumers to come up with numbers and provisions. you won't get these youngsters, i think, to spend $5,000 a year, okay, with whatev

administration officials said the system would protect the uninsured. and now that report shoes an overwhelming number of the enrollee so far already had coverage. also, 70 million americans and maybe many more with a target on their back. victims of the massive security breach learning of a new round of pain because of what the giant retailer did with all of the customer e-mail addresses. >> i am harris faulkner. there is new retooktz terrorist attack in a restaurant in afghanistan. a restaurant where americans would likely be. we obtained the image of an american who died. lexy camerota and she worked for the privately run american university of the afghanistan. and they have gave fox news a statement. first of all the world called her lexy, she was smart, strong and beautiful and stubborn and kind and fearless. she took the job in the american university of afghanistan to help the young women of that country get an education and take their rightful place as leaders in the afghan society. as can you can guess her death is a shock to us all. you can't

cover millions who were previous uninsured. >> anything to help my family out that's what we're going odo. >> the administration hopes 7 million will join by march 31st when open enrollment ends. >> a lot of people go at it as if they don't care. nothing going to happen to me. then you need it and you panic. >> controversy continues to

just a fraction of them were previously uninsured. as you said, that was the whole point of this law. another finding in that study is that a majority of the uninsured people who declined to purchase coverage through obamacare did so because it was too expensive. >> right. >> for them to sign up. so i mean, if you're an average american out there and your tax dollars are going to this trillion-plus dollar program, you have to be wondering with higher costs and dropped coverage and we're barely taking a bite out of the uninsured problem, what did we pass this law to do? >> yeah, and a lot of people maybe deciding they're going to pay the fine because in many cases it's cheaper. always great to see you. >> thank you, gretchen. >>> and now a fox news alert. police on the texas border arresting a man and a woman on fraud charges that could be tied to the massive december credit card breach. the suspects reportedly tried to enter the u.s. from mexico with a stash of fraudulent credit cards on them. that data breach, of course, hit tens of

and so again this is a program for uninsured individuals to be eligible you have to live in san francisco. and you have to be between the ages of 18 and 64. and you have to have been uninsured for a period of time and have an income limit, but if you are eligible and not be eligible for other publicly subsidized health insurance. and so, if all of those conditions applied and then the person is put into healthy san francisco. and if those conditions do not apply, if the person lives outside of san francisco, or if they have health insurance through a spouse, for example, and then they are given a city medical reimburse amount account. the city medical reimbursement account works like the health reimbursement account and so they submit it after the fact and but the coverage services is what is covered under the city, mra is different than what is covered under the health reimbursement account. >> they decide what is covered and the funds revert to the employer after 24 months and the city, mra, if it is a wide variety and the city determines what is covered and it is a public benefit progr

guest: these are great questions for emergency rooms and health care for the uninsured. they are the most expensive venue by far, barring certain surgical operations, emergency room's are very expensive. the caller is right, they looked at uncompensated care for the uninsured, particularly low income americans in underserved communities, there are billions of dollars effectively donated to charity in the form of care for the uninsured. it is likely that health care prices in some areas could go down as a result, people having insurance, it could be better for everyone overall. it is an interesting question, going forward. host: baltimore, maryland, michael is on the independent line. caller: thank you for taking my call. i was just wondering, with the affordable care act, what about the new taxes that will be implemented along with it? who, primarily, will be affected? thank you. guest: these are great questions. the affordable care act pays for itself with new taxes on health care industry. new taxes on providers. very few americans will be seeing these taxes, although

you are calling on the line for uninsured. are you working right now? off.r: no, i got laid at my company, i have been there almost a year but not quite. it took me six months from the day i was in -- i was hired to get insured. once i got a job, it took me six months to get it. then i was eligible. i had insurance for one month. they laid me off. their policy is if you are off work for more than 31 days, then, when you return to work, if you are not back within the 31 days, you have to wait another six more months before you are eligible for their employer paid insurance. anything about his story you want to speak to? guest: if you are still on the line, have you checked out any of the coverage now being the affordable care act and what do you think about it if you had done that yet though -- that? host: i think he is gone. good morning, james. good morning. i have tried for years. host: what would you like to ask guest? caller: i want to make a statement. let me lower my tv where i cannot hear it. i want to make a statement. let me lower my tv where i

finding people, where they are, as they are uninsured. whether it's through the unemployment programs, whether it's through other human services. we know when people fall on hard times, lose a job, we know the situations where people are uninsured in the life transitions. taking advantage of that, getting people the care that they need. >> anthony wright executive director of health access california. >> in the empire of south california 300,000 will be extended health coverage. experts are concerned that there won't be enough doctors to meet the region's needs. as rob reynolds tells us a californian medical school has come up with a you nooek plan that could end the doctor draut. >> jennifer wanted to be a doctor. a daughter of immigrant, these a first-year medical student. >> one of my goals going into medicine is work with und underserved communities. >> in the system of for-profit health care, students need to get big loans. >> we are requiring a lot of debt, $40,000, $50,000 per year over four years. close to $200,000 or more. >> han

for the uninsured. yet a recent "wall street journal" article cites a mackenzie study that undermined this process. "only 11% of consumers who bought new coverage under the will you were previously uninsured, according to mackenzie and company survey of companies thought to be eligible for the health care law marketplaces. one reason for people declining to purchase plans was affordability. that was cited by 52% of those who had shopped for a new plan but not purchased one in mackenzie's most recent sampling performed in january." as it turns out, the affordable care act is hardly affordable and the vast majority of those who purchased insurance through the exchanges already had health insurance. last week the coe o c.e.o. of aa said obamacare was not attracted enough uninsured people to work. he said more premium increases are on the horizon. are they going to be double-digit, he said, or are we going to get beat up because they're double digit, or are we just going to have to pull out of the program?

it asked people how they think obamacare has affected uninsured, the uninsured in this country.now, that was the population that the program was designed to fix. well, 50% of those responding think the uninsured are worse off than they were before, only 34% think they are better off, and 16% say no difference. i mean, that's a pretty uncomfortable number, i guess, if you're at the white house having upset the apple cart of the health insurance system to try to cover the uninsured. >> well, you know, one of the other big problems they've had, jon, is the fact that, let's face it, the one place that most americans got their information generally about this plan was from the president himself. while they were passing it, he was the one who would give speeches, and he routinely said -- the most famous line perhaps attached to him, and the plan is if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. if you like your insurance plan, you can keep your insurance plan. well, we now know that that was false, and many of the people becoming involved with these health care exchanges are being

when we began the process, some 640,000 people in kentucky were uninsured. that's almost one in six kentuckians. and folks, these are some group of aliens am a distant planet. these are our friends and our neighbors. these are people we go to church with on sunday. we shop in the grocery store with during the week. we sit in the bleachers on friday night and watch our kids play baseball or football or soccer. we hunt with them, fish within. they are farmers on the tractor, they are substitute teachers. they are seasonal construction workers. they are nurses aides, new graduate at high-tech startups, they are grocery clerks. i tell some of the other kentucky leaders all the time, you would be surprised at how many of kentucky's uninsured that you know. and for the uninsured, the lack of health coverage puts their health and financial secured at risk. these folks get up every morning and go to work just hoping and praying that they don't get sick. they have to choose sometimes between food and medicine. they skip visits to the doctor, hoping the condition, and

weigh in on the insured versus uninsured number one which i think is a fib but i want your view. secondly whether we'll have a massive volume of uninsured because they will lose their plans when the business side kicks in. what's your take. >> sure. i agree with betsy. i want to go further and say what's going to happen this week now that we are finishing up with the capitalistic phase of health care in this country's history. we'll have absolute chaos next week. patients coming into offices who will be startled by the amount of their deductibles. when they find out they have a $6,000 deductible now they will forego getting treatment and inherit these patients in our hospitals when they are stage one cancer is now a stage three or stage four cancer and wine up needing surgery and chemother y chemotherapy. what employers might wind up doing and i think this goes back to a report from a couple of years ago you might see employers dumping tens of millions of americans off their insurance roles and that's something people don't under right now. right now we're in the phase of lost in

if we don't get the uninsured signing up for we can only say we have the sick uninsured signing up theyhave a lot to prove here. >> bob, thank you. >> good seeing you. >> likewise. top spot at the department of justice continues. we have the inside story of the new complaints about the man who is now been nominated to head up the doj civil rights division who once volunteered to help the convicted cop killer. with he will speak with the naacp on why that group is supporting the nominee. hot on camera case of a toddler being taught disturbing lessons. just ahead that child's mother is now talking. being your own boss! and my customers are really liking your flat rate shipping. fedex one rate. really makes my life easier. maybe a promotion is in order. good news. i got a new title. and a raise? management couldn't make that happen. [ male announcer ] introducing fedex one rate. simple, flat rate shipping with the reliability of fedex. i ke prilosec otc each morni for my frzero heartburn.n.abecat wohoo! [ male announcer ] prilosec otc is the number one doctor recommended frequent heartburn

ty say the uninsured would sti pay less... but covered california's dana howard disputes the numbers. " that's just if there isn t anything wrong with them ify went to emergency room and e it's located. well they took into account full rate wellm not going to debate with th what my point is that you ct predict what their hospital costs are going to be if yo get sick whose gona pay for that, their mom? " he points out that an appendectomy for example... cost tens of thousands... although nerd wallet found r than a quarter of young adus actually visit an e-r each and only 7 percent stay overnight at the hospital. young people currently makep about a quarter of the enrolled... a number covered california is happy with... considering young adults al make up about a quarter of e states population. if you have a consumer question, cl our hotline at (888)5helps- thanks julie. meteorologist paul deanno is live on the k-p-i-x 5 roof thanks, paul. the baby dolphin born at thx flags in vallejo last week got the baby,,,, female announcer:

really eat into the uninsured population. so is the program working? we saw people very adept at walking. economics always works. if i can find a cheaper policy versus the one i have, i'll go buy that. >>> all right. that's the ceo of health insurance giant aetna, explaining a major failing if obamacare. next we'll show you why he says his company may have to pull out of the exchanges. >>> is president obama already a lame duck? with the state of the union next week, we'll look at what he can still get down in the three years he has left in the white house. is it even worth praying for some pro-growth policies. >>> and a tax shocker from the irs, this year, loads of new taxes, reduced deductions, more about to slam millions of americans consumers and businesses. the question is, could these new taxes have something to do with our sluggish stock market so far this new year? all those stories, much more coming up on "the kudlow report", beginning right now. >>> good evening, everyone. i'm larry kudlow. we're live at 7:00 p.m. e

will be uninsured.re will be 30 million people without health insurance. that's part of the reform. >> a bigger problem remains the lack of young, healthy people signing up for the exchanges. they are needed to help pay for the older, less healthy people. those with preexisting conditions who could no longer be turned away by insurers, their accentance into these exchanges means that costs necessarily go up for insurers. sur facials find -- a surveys find they were between the ages of 18 and 34. the centers for medicare services believes the numbers are getting good and getting better. 234 a statement they told the watt street journal, quote, we are in the middle of a sustained 6-month open enrollment period and saw strong interest across the range of demographics so far. people have until the end of march to sign up for the plan so there remains plenty of time left. greg? >> doug doug mckelway, thanks. >> thank you, doug. for more wea columnist for the washington times. let's break it down in terms of

will still be uninsured. there will be 30 million people without health insurance. that's part of the reform. >> bigger problem remains the lack of young healthy people who are signing up for the exchanges. they are needed to help pay for the older, less healthy people and those with preexisting conditions who can no longer be turned away by insurers. their acceptance into the exchanges means costs necessarily go up for insurers. surveys find 24% of enrollees were between the ages of 18 and 34. the centers for medicare and medicaid services believes that the numbers are good and getting better, though. in a statement it told the "wall street journal" and we're quoting here, we are in the middle of a sustained six-month enrollment period and we have seen a strong interest in the product overall, across the range of demographics so far. and people do still have until the end of march to sign up for the plans. so there is plenty of time left. back to you. >> we will be watching. thanks so much, doug. >> sure thi

will still be uninsured. there will be 30 million people without health insurance. that's part of the reform. >> as you pointed out, another group that is not enrolling in numbers that were expected and is needed in order to avoid the so-called death spiral, younger, healthier people. new hhs numbers through december 28th show only 24% of enrollees were between ages of 18 and 34. one of the problems that led to the dirth that allowed people up to 26 years old stay on their parents' plan. it reduced the eligibility pool of young adults seeking their own policies. >> doug mckellway in new york. >>> a fox news alert. an intense investigation is under way after a deadly bombing rocks a popular restaurant in kabul leaving 21 people dead including at least two american citizens. it happened late last night in an area of the capital popular with foreigners and affluent aven afghanies that were considered safe. this is a shock to a lot of people living there. >> this is a big shot. attacks on so-called soft targets l

we have about 21 million uninsured, 2 million is about 10% of the uninsured.t is worse than that, because many of those 2.1 million people are people who have their policies cancelled. now, we're not sure how many had theirs cancelled in january, many will be cancelled throughout 2014. but many were deferred until the end of the year. but we do know in california, 8,000 people lost their health insurance january one, and 200,000 lost their health insurance in the state of washington. about half of those people are subsidy eligible. so just washington state and california alone puts a pretty big dent in those numbers. so the bottom line here is something far less than 10% of the uninsured have so far bought obama care. and to make this work, we have to get about 70%. >> right, so scott gottlieb, can that plan survive with that kind of enrollment rate? >> well, if you look at the state data level for the states who put out data for enrolling, it looks like a lot of people that enrolled are a lot less healthy than we planned on. it really suggests that not only i

the uninsured oppose it nearly 2 to 1. and many believe it has made them worse off than before. on a google hangout today, president obama promised results for a woman who says he cannot keep a plan and specialist she liked and is overwhelmed by red tape. >> since you're talking to the president directly, we'll get -- i guarantee you a firm answer by the end of the day. >> an illinois republican said some of the fixes for obamacare are pretty obvious. some of these things are very common sense. and the president again falls into this trap of, hey, you like my approach or you don't want to do anything at all. i think most folks are seeing through that. an analysis through the center for health economy and gop alternative reveals their patient care act would save almost $1.5 trillion over ten years. that study also suggests the senate gop plan would redeese health care costs, lower premiums and provide health care coverage to more americans than obamacare. bret. >> mike emanuel live on the hill, thank you. >>> at a time when the obama administration is desperate to sign up more pa

what we are talking about is not only people who were uninsured and inadequately insured. a lot of people are getting a better deal. when you talk about uninsured and the problems, the flaws with the obamacare website, have slowed the enrollment process. even so we have seen good enrollment and with the outreach they will see more and more enrollment as we get toward the march deadline. we are talking about uninsured and people who are not adequately insured and they want to go to obamacare >> lots of them have to go to the exchanges because companies like target are telling them they have to go. in fact, target said most of the part-timers said don't give us this because you are making us in eligible from getting better coverage >> the liberal position is to bash them for bad health care or being mean. what else are they going to say other than you can get better coverage that we don't have to pay for. any big company isn't going to say we are screwing our employees. >> that is a question about whether companies are being alt alteristic or if this is dollars and cents. >>

just 24% of those uninsured say they like it.nd as you know, the list is long, leaders in major labor unions who wrote a letter to senate majority leader harry reid and house minority leader nancy pelosi to say revelatory changes to obamacare do nothing to help their workers suffering under obamacare. letter reads in part it would be a sad irony if the signature legislative accomplishment of administration committed to income inequality cut living standards to middle income and low-wage workers. georgia governor today i apologize for states lack of preparedness after a rare ice storm paralyzed traffic in atlanta. resulting in it may commute for thousands and thousands of drivers. >> we will be much more cautious and much more aggressive in terms of taking action in advance. lou: atlanta only two and half inches of snow, but it led to an epic traffic jam forcing drivers to abandon their cars, thousands of children were forced to sleep at their schools, the sun was out across much of the south today, officials still dealing with a

but millions of americans remain uninsured and uninformed.they will have to get health insurance in 2014 in order to escape a fine. now it is barack obama's a it isnge to see that -- barack obama's big challenge to see that 7 million americans get insurance. >> those without insurance still sit in the waiting rooms. there are 48 million of them. >> i cannot survive. i am diabetic. i cannot afford to get my medicine. i had to pray to god. that's all i could do. not just because of has obama's name on it. it is people who need assurance. -- insurance. some people cannot afford insurance at all. >> he is signing up in 2014. he will have to be insured. such is the law. the administration needs the young and healthy to enroll en masse as well. 50% of americans remain uninsured. >> we hope that more of our patients will have insurance and access to medication formularies and specialty care. i think patients feel more secure when they have insurance as well. we expect we will have a lot more patients show up. >> here and across america, patients are

michigan where the second largest insurer says customer confusion is the big reason why very few uninsured haved up there. >> i think everyone was hopeful this would make a difference, and i think the adjustments are critical to make it be successful, the way we wanted it to be. >> reporter: still, supporters of health care reform believe today is a start. >> we'll begin to move toward a country in which most everyone has health insurance coverage instead of a country of with large numbers of uninsured. >> reporter: there are many trouble spots. people who signed up or haven't received their id cards, confusion over premiums and benefits, but tonight, millions of americans are insured under the obamacare system, and the number of people signing up is expected to increase over the next year. >>> thanks. >> we have an update tonight on that russian ship stranded off antarctica stuck in the ice since christmas eve. australian officials say weather conditions have improved and a planned airlift is now likely to begin soon, perhaps tomorrow. a helicopter will carry more than 50 passengers, a do

not working for the uninsured. most people signed up already have a health plan and lost that plan and forced to go on the exchange. >> jerry willis. host of fox business network. >> i am good. hemmer. >> this is shocking. two-thirds of folks who tried to epiroll 2.2 million had coverage or recently had coverage. this comes as a shock. reason the administration's argument in getting the affordable care passed we have to help people. look at 48 million were deemed not to have health insurance and we could fix the problem and pass the law and get coverage to 25 million people. and in the end of the day, these numbers are coming from the private sector. these folks are seeing the result of obama care and seeing who is enrolling. it is people who had coverage or have coverage. it is a shock. >> why is it not hitting at least the minimum number? >> big conversation about that today. people are speculating. maybe the affordable care act is affordable only for people who have coverage. the deductibles are 5,006,000. and s

the bottom line is that less than 10% of the uninsured so far. i think we can be clear, have signed up for health insurance under obamacare. >> what are you seeing about the percentage of sick people versus healthy? >> we aren't going to know for sure for months. we know the people signing up are older in age which likely means sicker. it doesn't take einstein to figure out the first people through the door will be sick people desperate t for health insurance for years. if you've got less than 2 million people signing up, and it's less than 10% of the uninsured, obviously it will be a sick population. obamacare has proven they can set people up efficiently. between now and march 21 they have to prove healthy uninsured people want to buy this. that's the challenge. >> i don't know about efficiently. a lot of the viewers may take with that. i have to leaf it there. >> good seeing you. >> a hundred million people are in the path of a powerful winter storm as some of the worst conditions are expected to hit any time now. boy, it's getting snowy in ne

the bad news then was that when they churned out oftentimes they were uninsured. earned a little bit more money they became uninsured and had no insurance. now with the affordable care act the good news is that they can move into an exchange if their income rises, goes up a little bit. however, it's up and down and up and down with a lot of these people and their income. they may move from medicaid onto the exchange and then their income may drop and they may have to go back to medicaid. so that's what the churning issue is. and it's kind of a nightmare. it will be somewhat of a nightmare for some of the states. >> ezra, this is one of the things, as you know, that single payer advocates like me and others -- one of the reasons we're single payer advocates is look at this thing and look how messy it can become. and there's also now going to be a churn on the private insurance end of this thing with the subsidies. people will be getting private insurance for some number of weeks, months, and then they will become eligible for medicaid and churn downward into the 34

the ceo health care law has failed to attract the uninsured.ion's third-largest insurer raises rate by her perhaps double digits or potentially drop out of the race altogether. telling liz claman it all stems from major flaws in the law. >> as we finish up i did not ask about healthcare.gov. let me ask, does the volume of the health care exchanges, you are laughing, is it that bad? is the volume drying up where you thought it might be, lower, higher? >> i think it is lower than everybody would have thought. it is really not about the website, it is aboutdept prograo create people to join. >> is it? speaker does not. people don't want to go to healthcare.gov to shop. people don't want to go online to look up health insurance. do you go online to look up your car insurance? do you relish that idea? the whole ideas how do we provide enough variety and choice for consumers to be able to want to go and find something that fits them. the fewer options you have, the less excited marketplaces. people chronically over insured or underinsured. the next i