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What have we learned three years into ObamaCare?

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President Obama's Health Care Reform law turns three years old Saturday tonight chief national correspondent Jim Angle tells us but we've seen so far.

No obamacare doesn't fully take effect until January parts of -- are already in place supporters of course point to the benefits.

Are.

Ready more than three million young Americans have gained coverage to their parents' plans preventive care is free for tens of millions of Americans who have children.

Can now have coverage even if they have -- preexisting condition children can stay on their parents' plan until age 26.

Obamacare are already -- everything from free contraceptives to free preventive services for all ages many however -- nothing is really free.

There will be more than a trillion in new taxes over the next ten years even so new benefits -- free preventive care always come at a cost.

To someone having the cost covered for the patient of mammograms and Hamas pieces along good.

But when the reimbursement to physicians and -- facilities is below cost.

Facilities and doctors won't provide those services.

Whole host of new regulatory and compliance requirements.

That all add to the cost of health care coverage in fact -- regulations that govern obamacare will be implemented have been pouring out.

There's been 171000 pages of regulations issued so far.

I don't think anybody knows exactly what's in all of them most of what's gonna happen was not actually written in the legislation it is up to of the discretion of the Obama administration.

And all that is creating uncertainty was the Federal Reserve -- discouraging companies from hiring others are cutting employees hours to avoid government mandate.

Obamacare as a health care issue may in fact become secondary to obamacare as a jobs issue.

A Fox News poll released this week finds that 55%.

Want the law repealed in part or in its entire irony while forty Brazil at one -- leave it -- he is or expanded.

The -- -- of obamacare was almost universal insurance.

But the congressional budget all losers now saying many -- you'll be let down when they announced recently that the uninsured rate.

Will be 44000000 and 24 -- even as laws being implemented.

The total cost of the -- through Toy Story 3 is at least one point three trillion dollars several Democrats have joined Republicans to roll back a new tax on medical devices while others want more sweeping changes including outright repeal of the law.

Before next January.

-- on this of the panel Jim thank you.