the presidential nomination, joe biden spends a lot of time proposing a surge in federal taxes and spending. joining me now is james freeman, assistant editor of the wall street journal editorial page. healthcare remains the number one issue for people across the country. been that way for a long time. democrats are starting to have the debate. bernie s giving a big speech today. is biden being honest about how much this will cost? i think you have to be skeptical. certainly, he is not telling the truth, whether he knows it s not the truth or not. he s not telling the truth when he says he can create this new government plan, this public option to get insurance, and not affect all of the existing private plans. you remember ten years ago the reason they didn t put this in obama care, democrats said it s too radical to create a government competitor to private health plans. dana: you said this would be the thing. $750 million pub lib healthcare option. he would also roll back the tr