suppose the september changes hands. we both realize in order for this to happen the senate would have to turn to a republican majority and put harry reid in the back of the room instead of controlling the cal epar. and does the president have to sign off on the compact for it to be respected. this is a dispute. there are federal dollars connected. most compacts are a legislative branch. medicare and medicaid and all obama dollars back to the state and said design your own system. we ll have to work that out. for me it is important to get it out early and say to states, we trust you to make the decision. they do medicaid and a lot of people don t know it. it is run by the states and health care authority in every state. this would give that state greater flexibility to take care of a larger group of people. and if anyone said the states can t do better than the federal
acknowledge it s real and happening. during the bush years, there were global compacts that the united states did not participate in because to not have all of the developing nations on board, we don t actually make a dent. they want to get them on board by the end of next year. long-term problems that could become legacy issues beyond climate change, chuck, you ve written about it this week and talked about it and that is syria. the president appearing with france s as president hollande talking about the horrendous situation in syria, john mccain saying a future president will apologize for inactioning it s interesting mccain put it that way. this is consuming president obama in a way we in the press haven t been fully able to report. sometimes it s hard to get inside somebody s head. advisors admit he knows this policy isn t working. but the country has this sort of iraq syndrome and a similar syndrome with vietnam. so there are certain aspects off
suppose the september changes hands. we both realize in order for this to happen the senate would have to turn to a republican majority and put harry reid in the back of the room instead of controlling the cal epar. and does the president have to sign off on the compact for it to be respected. this is a dispute. there are federal dollars connected. most compacts are a legislative branch. medicare and medicaid and all obama dollars back to the state and said design your own system. we ll have to work that out. for me it is important to get it out early and say to states, we trust you to make the decision. they do medicaid and a lot of people don t know it. it is run by the states and health care authority in every state. this would give that state greater flexibility to take care of a larger group of people. and if anyone said the states
party by suggesting we don t acknowledge it s real and happening. during the bush years, there were global compacts that the united states did not participate in because to not have all of the developing nations on board, we don t actually make a dent. they want to get them on board by the end of next year. long-term problems that could become legacy issues beyond climate change, chuck, you ve written about it this week and talked about it and that is syria. the president appearing with france s as president hollande talking about the horrendous situation in syria, john mccain saying a future president will apologize for inactioning it s interesting mccain put it that way. this is consuming president obama in a way we in the press haven t been fully able to report. sometimes it s hard to get inside somebody s head. advisors admit he knows this policy isn t working. but the country has this sort of iraq syndrome and a similar
come up with a legal way to opt out. this week, he introduced a bill which would switch the power over decision making in health care from the federal government to individual states. it s called a health care compact. oklahoma congressman james langford joins me now. congressman, an innovative idea that you ve come up with and i want to hear about it. thanks for being here. you bet. glad i was able to help. this is actually eight different states have done this. this is typical from most of our great ideas, they come out of the states. eight states have already said they want to do this. they ve asked the federal government for permission to be able to come back and say, okay, we want to control our own health care, will you allow us? as odd as that may sound, this, mother, may i experiment comes out of article i, section 310 of the constitution that allows states to do compacts, make agreements between states. there are about 300 agreements like this that have been made between sta