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To the Point

Year Two for Obamacare: Is There Trouble Ahead?

To the Point

KCRW

News

4.4583 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2014

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

More than seven million Americans have health insurance because of Obamacare.  Another chance to enroll starts tomorrow.  But another round of attacks on the Affordable Care Act is already well underway.  We hear about new requirements and about political and legal challenges.

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0:00.0

From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point.

0:08.0

Year 2 for Obamacare. Is there trouble ahead?

0:15.4

Hello again, I'm Arminolny, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International, a daily look at the issues Americans care about most.

0:21.7

With 7 million people already signed up for health insurance, enrollment under Obamacare opens again tomorrow.

0:27.8

But opponents have unearthed statements by an administration advisor suggesting lies were used to get the law passed.

0:35.1

And the U.S. Supreme Court's agreed to decide if four little words were merely a typo

0:39.8

or evidence that could cancel health insurance subsidies in 36 states.

0:44.9

We'll hear about efforts to recruit Latinos, young people, and others who didn't sign up last year

0:49.4

as the political and legal pounding continues.

0:53.1

Today's talking point has the Innocence Project lost its innocence.

0:57.4

First, here's the news.

1:00.6

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1:04.3

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1:09.0

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1:15.6

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1:20.6

International Program Fund.

1:22.2

Hello again.

1:22.7

We're not only back with To the Point.

1:24.2

More than 7 million Americans have health insurance because of Obamacare.

1:28.2

Another chance to enroll starts tomorrow. But another round of attacks on the Affordable Care Act is already well underway.

1:35.1

We'll hear about new requirements and about political and legal challenges.

1:39.5

Today's talking point, Illinois banned the death penalty after Northwestern University's Innocence Project got a condemned man released when another man confessed to two murders.

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