know even who donald trump is, what his interests are, how interested he is going to be in governing the country we would assume that reince priebus, his chief of staff is pretty interested, but a i ve encountered a widespread assumption that mike pence, mitch mcconnell and paul ryan are going to be running the parts of the country that involve legislation but i think there s a lot we don t know and there s a tremendous amount of appointments that have not been made and so we don t know who those people are going to be. and we re seeing we had this executive order on the affordable care act which i think if you were watching was a little confusing, we were digesting an executive order in realtime which always makes amazing television. it was great. thank you very much, thank you. they re still chewing through what that means. i m watching health policy wonks work this out in realtime. here s what i think is an interesting idea, right? you have populist nationalism on
amount of appointments that have not been made and so we don t know who those people are going to be. and we re seeing we had this executive order on the affordable care act which i think if you were watching was a little confusing, we were digesting an executive order in realtime which always makes amazing television. it was great. thank you very much, thank you. they re still chewing through what that means. i m watching health policy wonks work this out in realtime. here s what i think is an interesting idea, right? you have populist nationalism on this roster up there today, on the dais. that was full bannon. it sounds different than ryanism and pencism. the question is do you get that rhetoric and get basically the paul ryan/mike pence agenda? that s what i m afraid of. people has said he s going to block it, he promised not to touch medicare and medicaid, social security. the ryan budget is very different. but i have just a feeling that when they start selling him on it h
requiring it for automobile insurance, the principle then ought to lie the same way for health insurance, because everybody has some health insurance costs and if you aren t insured, there s no free lunch. i believe that there is a bipartisan consensus to have individual mandates. i personally think, and i think constitutional lawyers think, that the mandate in itself is unconstitutional because never before in the 225 year history of our country has the federal government said you had to buy anything. i wonder who won? i think chuck grassley won. but it s not just that the republicans were once in favor of the individual mandate before suddenly deciding it was unconstitutional. as exemplified by senators grassley. it s that the whole individual mandate idea was a republican idea in the first place. it was conceived by a group of conservative economists and health policy wonks for the first president bush back in the late 1980s.