expanding medicaid will ensure new jersey taxpayers that they will see their dollars maximized. federal funding will cover 100% of the cost of this expansion for the first three years, and then leveling off to 90% in 2020. let me be clear. refusing these federal dollars would not mean they wouldn t be spent. it just means that they would be spent to expand health care access in new york or connecticut or ohio or somewhere else. chris christie of course is now entangled in multifaceted scandals in new jersey and is trying to be the very first invisible chairman of the republican governors association. and this is the ad that chris christie, the invisible chairman, has decided to pay for in this year s south carolina gubernatorial campaign. remember this guy, sheheene? well, first sheheen supported much of obamacare but then he
you can show this ad on your show and put christie s words right after it. and so i m very curious where this goes. i hope it s not confined to sheheen in fighting back against this sort of thing. let s listen to what president obama said last week about this. you ve got republican governors here. i won t name them in front of the press because i don t want to get you all in trouble. who ve chosen to cover more people through new options under medicaid and as a result millions of people are going to get help. states that don t expand medicaid are going to be leaving up to 3. 5.4 americans million americans uninsured. and that doesn t have to happen. work with us to get this done. nia, big laugh when he says he doesn t want to get republican governors in trouble for extending this benefit to so many hundreds of thousands of people. well, that s right.
it s a reality. and with that reality comes one s own response. and with that comes empathy. with that comes understanding. i mean, i can t count how many times i ve heard or i mean, okay. i ll come back to what i want to say. i mean, for example, a friend of mine, a producer, was in a cinema in toronto when we first showed the film in the toronto film festival. and he s a white guy from britain. he was sitting down. and this middle-aged african-american woman sat down next to him. they started talking before the movie. towards the end of the movie he said he felt a hand slip over his hand and they held hands towards the end of the movie. and when the end credits began, they sort of fell into each other s arms in tears. and it s just one of those things where that wouldn t have happened without that experience of a movie and that sort of
and if you look at in south carolina specifically, about 500,000 uninsured adults would be covered under a medicaid expansion if governor nikki haley decided to do that. but she has said quite pointedly it s something she would never, ever do. and sheheen has said we re leaving this money on the table. and there s a study from the university of carolina that said if we expanded medicaid it would mean revenues of something like $11 billion into the states coffer into 2020 and also about 40,000 jobs. this will be an interesting race. governor hailey, for instance, has also said she would welcome chris christie down to that state to campaign for her. it will be interesting to see if he actually comes and if this expansion of medicaid comes up. we have a new report tonight from the new jersey scandal desk involving bill stepien, who is of course christie s former campaign manager and adviser who was forced to remove himself
letter calling christie s bluff. how many jobs has new jersey lost as a result of your decision to accept your medicaid dollars, he asked. how many businesses have been harmed by your choice, and so on. it was really a great way to call his bluff. there used to be a time in our country when you could say one thing in one part of the country and a different thing elsewhere. right before the civil war they printed up different campaign biographies for the north and the south. you can t get away with that anymore. you can show this ad on your show and put christie s words right after it. and so i m very curious where this goes. i hope it s not confined to sheheen in fighting back against this sort of thing. let s listen to what president obama said last week about this. you ve got republican governors here. i won t name them in front of the press because i don t want to get you all in trouble. who ve chosen to cover more people through new options under