$600,000 that could be at risk every year going forward. some say that means the screenings that are so important will be cut back. indeed. 170,000 of the screenings that have been done by planned parenthood have been paid for by komen. these are to women who are either low income and don t have medicaid, or women who are unemployed and have lost their health insurance or young women in college who have no access to health insurance. so we are putting women across this country at risk because of a political agenda by the republicans on abortion. 97% of what planned parenthood spends their money on is women s health, unrelated to abortions. what s the solution? the solution is either komen steps back from this position or that we empower other breast cancer nonprofits in this country to pick up the slack.
made a decision, we are going to make sure that seniors and the poor have health care coverage, that they can count on. and they did the right thing. and i m sure at the time they were making that vote, they weren t sure how the politics were either. any more than the people who made the decision to make sure the social security was in place knew how the politics would play out or folks who passed the civil rights act knew how the politics were going to play out. they were not bound to win. but they were bound to be true. and now we have got middle class americans, don t have medicare, don t have medicaid, watching the employer-based system fray along the edges, or being caught in terrible situations, and the
i m sure the time they were making that vote, they weren t sure how the politics were either. any more than the people that made the decisions to make sure social security knew how the politics would play out or folks on the civil rights act knew how the politics were going to play out. they were not bound to win, but they were bound to be true. now we ve got middle-class americans that don t have medicare, don t have medicaid watching the employer-based system fray along the edges and being caught in terrible situations. the question is, are we going to be true to them? sometimes i think about how i got involved in politics.
overhaul. they plan to sue the government as soon as the measure becomes law. mandate that requires all americans to buy health insurance. a constitutional attorney at fox news analyst joins us now. the mandate requires individuals not the state government, to buy shoorps. how would the states be standing to sue? idaho is the first one that passed a law. governor signed off the law earlier this week. 37 other states are lined up saying, it s not just an individual right, it s a state s right and the state is going to step in and say federal government, you can t tell us and mandate and penalize as citizens of the state for not buying your government insurance. gregg: and since 15 million people will be put on medicaid, it s the states that pick up the costs so they are directly harmed. look, conscious has authority in the constitution to levy taxes
this week, arizona announced it is ending its s-chip program and throwing thousands of people off the medicaid rolls and all of the uninsured people that will be covered, over half will be covered by putting in the medicaid which the states are rejecting and we saw recall greens in oregon, the largest pharmacy reject medicaid patients and the news may be that finally health care is off the radar screen, and they can be relieved, but, the bad news on health care, is going to continue through november. gregg: this president calls it the most transparent legislation ever. he said everybody will be able to read it and know what it in it but on wednesday, it was c conspicuous when he talked with bret baier, he was struggling to explain what was in or out of the bill and it was posted on thursday and thereafter several changes have been made and they are still being made and pelosi may make more changes through the manager s amendment after the legislation, is brought to the floor tomorrow