rasmussen reports, over 60% of americans, in fact 62% of americans favor a repeal of the health care law. but, how realistic is that, senator? we need a new president in the white house, to fully repeal and get that president to sign the repeal order. we ll do everything we can to defund the health care law, to not allow it to go forward. you know, the secretary of health and human services granted waivers to over 2.5 million americans who don t want to live under the health care law. i want every american to be able to get a waiver an opt out of this. i ve introduced a piece of legislation that states health care choice act, to allow states to say, hey the people in our state don t have to buy government-approved insurance and the employers dent haon t h provide it. let them get out from under the huge medicaid force, expenses onto the state, unfunded man tates, i want states to be able to opt out and every american to
so we want states to have the opportunity to say we don t want the people in our state to have to buy insurance and we don t want every business to have to supply and pay for insurance. we don t want to have to live under the very expensive mandates coming out of washington for medicaid that one size fits all approach. we don t think we need to listen to the people in washington because we in our states know better than washington knows and that is what we re fighting for today and with our bill, which is basically called the states health care choice act. we think states ought to have those choices. senator graham, everyone agrees, it seems, that some sort of health care reform is needed. we know there are too many uninsured americans. why throw out the baby with the bath water? if there are provision that aren t good, if there are parts of the health care bill that aren t working and it s a large and complex bill, why not work within that structure, change the things that aren t wo
it. what does it mean when you allow a state to opt out? opt out of what? first, bill, i tell you, i think that ruling in florida was the second state in the heart of omabacare stake in the heart of omabacare. what we want know is the states health care choice act. we know one size doesn t fit all and the president said in the state of the union if you have good ideas, bring them forward. we want a state to be able to say we know what s best for the people who live in our state, so a state can say we don t want this individual mandate in our state, a number of states have already cast laws to that effect. we want a state to be able to say we don t want this employer mandate in our state, with all of the penalties. we want a state to be able to say we don t want all these medicaid unfunded liabilities, entitlements, passing the costs on to the state. we don t want that. and we also want states to be able to say we can determine what s best for the people in our state in terms of wh