it certainly is a base play, but it s a play for independents and swing voters, too. many of whom are folks that are living on the bubble of this economy, and are exposed to either obamacare not working, because there s only one insurer in the state, or very expensive premiums, premiums that are much higher than they were two or three years ago. it guess to the whole this is where i always thought it was a disaster for premiums always go up. now it s always the government now the government owns premiums but they haven t been going up that high. but the cost curve has actually been sort of the cost of health care overall has been yeah, that bend is starting we need more young people in it. the bend stops. we do need more young people nit. however, look, we had this conversation in 2012, with those independent voters, and i think obama was very successful in that. i don t think this is he doesn t know how you can argue she doesn t know how to defend it
run out of other people s money. we have two entitlements programs sfshgs we can t afford obama care, and we can t afford a single payer system. i have to tell you, you want to have universal health care? okay. let s take the v. amount as our model. how well has that worked? not at all. when it comes to bending the cost curve, the president originally promised that your health care under obama care would cost you the same as a cell phone service, right? not so much. not flls it was gold plated. it s just not working. charlie, when he said the cost curve, he could have been talking about higher. he didn t necessarily say it was going to go down did sne. he left that part out. i think it s fascinating as the political aspect is that what berny sappeders probably knows he is not going to be president sfshgs what he is probably trying to do is push hillary clinton to the left of this. now, a lot of people always thought that president obama s plan it s really mandated insurance. it
insured. toure s point that it s buy their. people saying i didn t use this system this website, that s certainly true and political and your point is this is a market. it affects you. the president moments ago says just because you didn t access health care this way, if we re bending the cost curve, something the white house continually saying they re doing and lowering the rate of increase of premiums we are helping everyone. right. the other thing is health care premiums go up every year so people will tend to blame that on whatever they see most recently having happened in health policy. the premium went up and they blame it on obamacare. looks like it s effective in holding down cost increases but nobody understands why we have seen such slow growth. you do. you do. no. i d love if you don t, none of us
look long term as obama says, you have to bend the cost curve down. it s one thing that obamacare wants to be doing but isn t doing very effectively. christie is talking about taking it the next step. there is a new q poll just out in new jersey that shows chris christie s approval rating is 38%. that s his lowest score since becoming governor. and if proven, he s ordered the closing of the george washington bridge, help 34% of the voters say he should be removed from office, 29% removed and prosecuted, 29% say an apology would be sufficient. we ll see what will be happening when the other shoe drops. but i did hear somebody who is smart say this weekend that when somebody runs for president, their numbers in their home state usually drop until they start winning. and then suddenly hey, the home team is ahead. but there is a reason for the poll numbers.
year. the evidence shows the aca is bend can the cost curve. the growth of national healthcare spending decreased to 3.6% last year. that is the lowest rate on record since the 1960s. healthcare delivery methods saved $12 million by reducing the number of hospital-acquired conditions. despite these clear benefits republicans have spent the last four years doing everything in their power to repeal the affordable care act, dilute it, under might and oppose it. this has become one of their chief political goals. they have taken 53 votes to repeal or weaken the law. they shutdown the government for 16 days in a failed attempt to