along with other republican, and democratic governors, we put together a program that gives the states great flexibility. you can keep obamacare if you want it, if you don t have to agree with that direction, but we have guardrails. there have to be guardrails. you can t hand somebody a blank check, particularly when it is not as much as the current program. we can fix programs, one last thing. when i became governor, we had a 9% increase in medicaid rates. now that rate is growing by 1.7 we have more people that are healthy. we have low uninsured rate. we can do these things if we use our brains and forget the silly politics. so you re with john mccain in wanting to see a better bill on the substance and better process and want it to be bipartisan? that s what hickenlooper and i resubmitted a plan. what do you want to see. i want to start with insurance. i want to stabilize the insurance market. give states the flexibility
foreign policy as well as anybody. we re getting some news that the libyan foreign minister has shown up in london and defected from gadhafi. explain who this guy is. and why it s so important. moussa koussa was the man that basically negotiated libya s way back into the mainstream of the world. after they gave up the nuclear weapons programs in 2003, after they settled the pan am case, he was the one that basically arranged for libya to be reintegrated. that s how come the united states opened up diplomatic relations with libya again. if he has defected, and there have been reports for days that he was thinking about it, then that is the further isolation of gadhafi, and also mean that gadhafi doesn t have at hand somebody who the u.s. and others feel they can talk to. interesting. david sanger of new york times, major garrett of the national journal, thank you both. a lot of stuff to work on.
anybody. we re getting some news that the libyan foreign minister has shown up in london and defected from gadhafi. explain who this guy is. and why it s so important. moussa koussa was the man that basically negotiated libya s way back into the mainstream of the world. after they gave up the nuclear weapons programs in 2003, after they settled the pan am case, he was the one that basically arranged for libya to be reintegrated. that s how come the united states opened up diplomatic relations with libya again. if he has defected, and there have been reports for days that he was thinking about it, then that is the further isolation of gadhafi, and also mean that gadhafi doesn t have at hand somebody who the u.s. and others feel they can talk to. interesting.