clause in fact saying, i agree with my conservative colleagues on those laws. it can be congress ability to levy taxes. that was unnecessary language according to court watchers but an attempt to sort of pacify the right as he did something that will be criticized heavily among conservatives. very interesting to watch how this plays out. pete, final word to you? reporter: i was going to say one thing, it s going to take a lot more decisions before there s a john roberts legacy. you have to remember that william rehnquist, his predecessor as chief justice, occasionally surprised people by joining the liberals to uphold the family and medical leave act. joining the liberals to say miranda is good law, against the conservative attack. so, you know, it s a big decision. it certainly would be an important one in his career. but he s pretty young. he has a long way to go before he has a full legacy here. well, it s one of those days in washington that we will all remember and our than
challenge of it is, is that we now have time to work specifically on this problem. part of that would be putting pressures on state legislatures and governors having all the interest groups who care about medicaid, which i think is much more efficient as an insurance policy than any private health insurance company. it s very, very efficient. so we just have to find a way around it. many of your west virginia, your fellow democrats, senator manchin, the governor, the congress member, ray hall are deciding not to go to the democratic convention and 40% of the democratic voters voted not only against president obama, but they voted for some convicted felon, he is remarkably unpopular, the president is in your state. are you planning to go to the democratic convention? first of all i m chairman of the delegation, so i think it would probably be a decent thing for me to do, don t you?
great to see you today. thanks, andrea. white house victory lap won t last long if republican mouse leaders have their way. the republican controlled house announced eric cantor is holding a vote to repeal health care reform right after the july 4th recess on july 11th. joining me now, democratic governor deval patrick of massachusetts. speaking for the white house today. how do you respond to the votes that are sure to come now as republicans on the hill gang up against the president and try to overturn this in some sort of legislative way? well, andrea, first of all, thanks for having me. i think today s a great day for, a great victory for the american people. it s interesting, you know, what we hear from reaction from republicans in congress and some in statehouses, are all the things they re not going to do, all the ways they re going to try to preserve a status quo where cost of health care has been too high for too many working families or out of reach for the working po
the bill that people generally like and try to tell people, hey, this is now the law and if you let it play out, we re going to have benefits for you you re going to like. mark, eric cantor is scheduled to vote on repeal on july 11th. presumably that s going to be aç party-line vote. you don t expect blue dog democrats are going to go over it now? will they rally around the white house. a handful will. the most part if you remember a congress who voted on the law previously, you ll probably vote for it. i suspect a vote not to overturn the law or change it. right. i suspect you ll see a lot of democrats saying, i want the law to stay, but we need to have changes. even the president says, the law needs changes. of course, any big law like this is going to need changes. there s no doubt because the mandate s unpopular, because republicans are going to talk about taxes, i don t think there s any doubt. however much the president talks about the law, republicans in the fall, from
medicaid program, yes or no? i think there are going to be some states for ideological reasons you had 26 states who went to court to challenge the president s affordable health care. some people were ideological reasons who say, no, we re not expanding medicaid. if you look at the economics, the congressional budget office did a report inúslptember 2009 that said, look, for most states this is going to be a bargain and i ll tell you why. right now they re paying for uncompensated care for people who don t have insurance. could not be more expensive going into the e.r. and also their insurance rates on state employees are up because of this cost shift. and they will save both of those pots of money and pay 10% of the expansion of medicaid. net/net for states. that s actually savings. california, for example, is estimated to save $2 billion in 2019 as a result of joining and expanding its medicaid program. couldn t it be the federal government is then told, you have to, con