employer coverage, but many people, about 11 million, are in the individual market where they have to buy it on their own. obamacare makes it too expensive and many people choose to not buy insurance, knowing that under obamacare you can buy it once you get sick, which distorts the markets and makes insurance for everybody much more expensive. jenna: some republicans, and democrats will say this, but some are publicans are also concerns about the cost, and wondering what you do with the individual mandate because of the costs, because we are told that everybody has to be in the pool so we keep costs down. what many may not realize is that when democrats say 20 million americans are getting insurance because of obamacare, half of those americans are getting it through medicaid. and that is really causing a lot of stress on the states. so how do you get the math right in all of this? well right now, even under obamacare, there are about 30 million people that don t have health covera
all people, they will get some political respect that matters. the deputy are editorial page editor for the wall street journal , normally i wouldn t see the direct connection between a billionaire who lives in a midtown penthouse, who is white, by the way, and black voters. but you say that donald trump might be able to deliver. well donald trump has been known to surprise people. and you know, in every presidential election, the black vote and the plight of inner-city black americans comes up, and everyone commits themselves to doing something about it. and then, one way or another in the next four years, not much happens. and four years later, those people end up living in the same violent neighbors going to the same poor schools with dim economic prospects. and i think this time it is going to be different with donald trump. and i think the reason for that is, he would go into black neighborhoods. i remember when he went to a charter school in cleveland, ohio, sat down with th
presidential election of 2016. so there you go, live pictures of the president-elect motorcade as it gets ready to head up to midtown manhattan and his trump tower. as we get more information about what he had to say to the people at conde nast, we will certainly bring that to you. so with yesterday s wall-to-wall coverage of top intelligence officials briefing senate lawmakers on russia s election meddling, why the networks barely covered president obama s farewell letter to americans. have you heard about it? our media panel. you don t let anything keep you sidelined.
offering for obamacare, the replacement, will include support for democrats and will provide better insurance at a cheaper price potentially for all americans? yes, we are going to make that offer to them, and i think for a lot of reasons that they will join us eventually. they are still going through the grieving process following the election on november the eighth, denial, anger, and soon, i hope they will come to acceptance and realize the only way we get anything done around here is on a bipartisan, consensus-building basis. and many of them themselves have talked about things that they would change in the affordable care act. we are going to give them that opportunity to work with us to provide more affordable health care that isn t mandated by the federal government, but which is something that you choose for your family because it suits your needs. jenna: and you feel confident that whatever options you get moving forward are going to be better than the options americans ha
competition to the public schools in a way that barack obama never did. he never really got behind those ideas, and while education is a local responsibility, i think the president and betsy devos can put their moral authority behind those movements at the local level. ben carson, i don t believe, is going to be just about subsidized housing. his mandate and mission will be to go into those cities, talk about the structure of black life, just as he did in the primaries. and i think between the two of them, you re going to see a focused effort to do something about places like baltimore, chicago, east st. louis. jon: so you mentioned barack obama, and this is our nation s first black president. but you say that the black american experience is not substantially lifted, despite his eight years in the white house. no, and if you look at the reporting on it, like americans living in places like that are disappointed. they were expecting something more. and i think a great part of it is