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a hybrid solution. one that comes out of the model here in massachusetts that has done already a tremendous amount of good, preserving people s choices, bringing health care costs down. more businesses offering insurance to their employees than before health care reform started. and we are healthier. and, you know, if you re in government because you believe it s about helping people help themselves, this is a great outcome. i wish the republicans in congress and my colleagu]jez statehouses would work with the president on the other issues facing the american people today. the big challenges facing us. and move on from this. this is an unequivocal victory. let s take it and move forward. now, since the reports are that 99% of massachusetts residents have coverage now. so that s right. you d have to say that mitt romney did a good job as governor since it came through under him. he did. i mean, and he s proud of health care reform here and he should be. you know, you re right.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120628:17:14:00

rachel, good to see you. thanks. let s talk about this, because it was not entirely what was expected. you have this coalition of justice roberts and the four liberals, quote/unquote, on the court. and it does send a signal that you can t always prejudge. you shouldn t prejudge what the court will do. and perhaps it takes some of the sting of politics out of this whole debate. it s so interesting to look at the difference in expectations about what was going to happen today. and then what actually happened. i mean, reading the political body language yesterday in washington, i mean, the republicans planned to have their congressional spokespeople on health reform, cathie mcmorris-rogers, one other member of congress, at the court and walking outside and making an immediate comment. the democrats, meanwhile, did their press conference at the capitol, reserved, defensive, raising money on the prospect the court is going to overturn it. president obama watching at the white house. y

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affordable care act, the only way to get rid of it now is to elect me, mitt romney, and get rid of barack obama. that that s the only avenue left to us. look, i think someone said to me today that the tens, the people already on ten in the republican base, excited, enthusiastic, as ready to vote as possible, this goes to 11. a spinal tap reference there. the people that are already excited are over the moon more i think that that will be the republican argument. david made this point, the stakes of the election are now. we can t depend on the court, can t depend on congress. the only thing we can do to get rid of this law which the base of the party hates, hates is the right word, is to get rid of barack obama. and i think that s what you ll see romney focus on in the coming days and weeks. to the extent he focuses on health care at all which i think is an open question. now, so far up until today,

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120628:17:00:00

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120628:17:01:00

something because that s beyond the power and the constitution that says congress has the power to, quote, regulate commerce. now, those who had objected to this said if somebody doesn t have insurance, then they re not doing anything you can regulate. and basically justice roberts agrees with that. however, he says, there s a longstanding cannon or tradition of interpreting laws, acts of congress, that says you look at there are other ways to find it constitutional. and he says there is. this is the government s fallback argument that if the mandate is still constitutional under the congress taxing authority. what the chief justice says here is all we re saying is, if you don t buy insurance, then you get taxed the same way if you buy gasoline or anything else. it s a tax on something that you ve done or not done and that he says is within congress power. and then he goes on to say on the medicaid side of thing, andrea, he sort of gives the states half a loaf here. they have said co

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