he said. i want to hear the president say that, he campaigned talking exactly to that group of people and saying you are doing too much with too little, and your wages have not gone up, and he just had one of the advocates of your plan and say your problems are on you and put the ipad down and pay for something. that s not only an inaccurate representation for what is true of a ma your tjority country, a let s you know where their heads are and who they are trying to please. add to the mix, too, again, they don t have full republican support, and you have rand paul calling it obamacare, and you have the conservatives over in the house of representatives saying they cannot support the bill, and they can t even get it out of the starting gate or looks like they will not be able to get it out of the starting
50%. we are shifting a lot of control on medicaid back to the states. new york decides to send a taxicab to pick up people to take them to the doctor for medicaid, and new york has to ask why are we doing something nobody else does? the question is going to be is different better. we will have to see if you get your lifetime caps and your coverage like before and what accessorily means. appreciate you making the case as always. very good, chris. alisyn? as you and chris collins were discussing, the hard work is just tpweupbibeginning, and who winners and losers in the plan, and one of the architects of obamacare is here to explain that next. omy, with the help of the lowest taxes in decades, a talented workforce,
penalty which is a small fraction of what you are imposing on society, and you could just stay out of the system, and so this was a system designed to bring society into the health arrangements that works for you at cnn and all employers. not to bring up a sore subject, but, of course, you remember a couple years ago when you got into some trouble for suggesting publicly that one of the advantages of obamacare was that it was sort of so dense and the lack of transparency would help because, you know, most americans wouldn t put in the time and energy to have to read through to really see what they were getting. the reason i bring it up is because is that relevant again this morning? i have here what chris printed out last night of the multiple pages, do you think voters and all the people you think would be disadvantaged do really understand what this replacement plan means for them because, you
is going lose? there was month of debates on the affordable care act covering these topics and there s nothing on this law and that s hypocritical. how big of a deal is it that the politics of obamacare do have a lot of negatives? you have a point about spiking premiums like in arizona, and you said you could keep your doctor and plan, and it wound up not being true, and are you dead in the water because of those situations? i don t know what is dead in the water? certainly you have premiums that have gone up a lot and those happens to be the cases where the republicans strongly opposed the underlying working of the laws, and if they allowed to encourage healthy citizens to sign up, and so i don t think you are dead in the water in any
know, we have seen people, all the anger at town hall meetings where they think something is going to be taken away from them, but who will put in the time to sift through this dense stuff and really get it? let s be clear. that s not really what i said. the point i was making in those ill-advised comments was that sometimes when laws are complicated it s hard to follow them and that basically that can sometimes be necessary to grease the wheels for the political process, and here s the big difference. when the affordable care act was passed it was done with unprecedented transparency, and there was dozens of hearings and now, given the attacks href kwraed on me, they want to jam through a bill without having any hearings or any score from the congressional budget office. we have no idea how many more americans will become uninsured, and who is going to win and who