greater ownership of their own health care and are encouraged to do that in a health plan, their health gets better. they pursue more wellness opportunities. we get them from emergency room care to primary care. also, it bend the cost curve over the long-term, where we re currently working with the administration to see if we might be able to build on the principles of health savings accounts and consumer-driven health care here in the state of indiana. we really think health savings accounts were kind of invented in indiana. 95% of my state employees have health savings accounts. we have the healthy i understand plan. we think it s an idea whose team has come, and we think consumer-driven health care, rather than government driven health care or government mandated health care is the real future of health care in america. you have not confined yourself to issues concerning indiana during a recent trade mission to germany. recently you criticized the way president obama has been hand
why are they pushing the employer mandate back? if you could talk about things that are still yet to come, because you have the income tax increase, the medical device tax, employer mandate that has been pushed, and religious objections heard in the supreme court, and the subsidies that the government is supposed to give and whether or not nay can be given on state or federal exchanges. still a lot left. so republicans do have a challenging mission in front of them because the goal of this was never to lower premiums. it was never to bend down the cost curve. it was never to get people to get insured. it was to get people dependent on government subsidies. it was a wealth redistribution scheme. that s working. two things i m watching, dana, not just the supreme court and not just medicaid expansion. the employer mandate, which i think is a huge deal, but also there is a case, the way they sloppily wrote this bill, there is a case that is moving its way through the courts that says
why are they pushing the employer mandate back? if you could talk about things that are still yet to come, because you have the income tax increase, the medical device tax, employer mandate that has been pushed, and religious objections heard in the supreme court, and the subsidies that the government is supposed to give and whether or not nay can be given on state or federal exchanges. still a lot left. so republicans do have a challenging mission in front of them because the goal of this was never to lower premiums. it was never to bend down the cost curve. it was never to get people to get insured. it was to get people dependent on government subsidies. it was a wealth redistribution scheme. that s working. two things i m watching, dana, not just the supreme court and not just medicaid expansion. the employer mandate, which i think is a huge deal, but also there is a case, the way they sloppily wrote this bill, there is a case that is moving its way through the courts that says
it s hard to really define success when it keeps continuing to change. those numbers will become more and more in terms of sign-ups so we ll know what success is down the road. we ve been showing you some of the many delays. good work on that, steve. i did it earlier. these are some of the many 38 delays so far. the reason today s deadline is so important is because the more people who sign up, that is going to push the cost curve down. remember, we were sold that more people will get insurance and they ll push down the cost curve. if a lot of people don t sign up, that s the problem. if a lot of people who are older and sicker, that s a problem as well because next year then the premiums will go up. yesterday maria bartiromo premiered her new show. she had the ceo of the cleveland clinic on. he knows this business better
they don t have the numbers. that s the difference here. i want it to work right. why should you care? if somebody has a chance that s wrong. you are into this because you can t stand this bill. no, right. it s terrible. it s going to cost american families more. we heard the stories. you are being sucked in by the rest of the democrats. the liberal vortex. they re buying time to get through 2014. that s all they re doing. between 2014 and 2016, you re going to find out exactly what it s doing. it s not bending the cost curve down. it s bending it up. it s going to cost the american public trillions upon trillions. you guys are so screwed. hearing this from the republican party who figures a way to lose. if you re right, we lose the senate, the white house, you still don t have the votes to change the bill. yeah, we do. you could change it, but i think that why people are so upset, the administration is making such a hack of this