back for a final vote. we re optimistic that we ll pass it out of the house today. steve rattner, congressman. how do you know that it drives down premiums given that it hasn t been scored by the cbo. i ll be glad to address that if you would like, steve. let me make it a two-part question. that s one. sure. the second one is with respect to the pre-existing conditions, they would go into a high-risk pool. there are estimates that the high-risk pool would need $330 billion to fund that. $130 billion was in before. you added $8 billion yesterday. that leaves $192 billion shortfall. i m not sure that you can say that everybody who has pre-existing conditions will continue to be able to buy insurance at an affordable price. we re going to have a phd discussion this morning on health care. but i m glad to do that. part of your analysis is just not correct. when we look at pre-existing conditions, one of the things in this bill is that if you have
when you look at that much money coming out of the health care system, you look at those changes, there is no question that more people, many millions of people will not have health insurance. it ll be less reliable. the people who really feel this will be people with lower incomes and people with serious medical conditions. basically, the people you really want to be helping in a health care system. so we re looking at a graphic there of the $8 billion. that caused a lot of the republicans who were noes to turn to yes. that still leaves a huge shortfall of about $192 billion. in the meantime, you ve written that obamacare does have some fundamental flaws. there is a big front page article in one of the major newspapers today that talks about the problems in iowa. so where do we go with this? if there are these fundamental problems, if there are states where and certainly areas where there s only one choice for an insurer, where could this possibly go that it could actually do some
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in 2003, a detailed map of baghdad that bears the note not to be used for targeting. in some ways this shows the world has changed. take look at this 1950 map of colonial power in africa, for instance. in a world long before google earth, the cia recognized the vital contributions these maps and geography provide. in one map, there was a handwritten note, to our cartographers who have always been a star in the agency s crown. the correct answer to the question of the week is d. earlier this month, the algerian prime minister announced the country s foreign reserves stand at $112 billion down from a peak of $192 billion in 2013. hydrocarbons account for over 90% of the algeria s exports. it s worth remembering that algeria once had a rising tide
months, we never paid so much money in tax. ever. that is a flatout record. where did that money come from? half of it came from individual income taxes. it s you and i, the income taxpayers of this planet who paid $192 billion towards that record tax inflow. but what happened? we spent it all and then some. so we kept racking up this massive debt which is dproag and growing and growing and growing. by the time president obama leaves office in january 2017, we will owe collectively $20 trillion. for that statistic, $402 billion in two months, and what is it? 47% of people in the united states don t pay federal taxes. that goes to show what a crushing burden it is on the mitt romney just confirmed it is 47%. president obama wants taxes to go up. he wants to raise more tax revenue and he wants to