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entitlement and exploding in cost and it is frankly very inefficient, we need to give the states more room to innovate. if we are going to help sick people. so this is a really big catastrophic debate, but the actual bill, i think they are tinkering around the edges on a lot of it. and john, penal are saying people r that are critical of this, is what is being removed is the financial death spiral and those unwell will stay in and those who are well will not and therefore you have a revenue problem. there is a lot of money for risk pools. risk pools are around for a long time. there is encouragement for states to have risk pools and there is question whether or not there is enough money in them. but for the person out there on the television audience, remember 80% of people get their insurance through their employer, they are not affected that much by this but there is one reform in this bill, a big expansion of medical savings accounts that a family could save tax-free up to $13
for this bill. reporter: hoyer and van hollen from the stage behind me, the message to the constituents was to call into other state and call into maine where susan collins is at, call into nevada where moderate republican dean heller is ott at at, and they said they need three republicans to take care of this bill for the end of the week but they said call in, call people that you know that live in those states and call up the members and deliver the message that bill needs to be killed. and in talking with these constituents and not only are they concerned about the senate bill but there is still the process of the reconciliation when itm coulds it come totz house and the senate appeasing what the white house is looking for. so it is a long journey ahead and they are here through the summer to fight it. vaughn, great stuff, sir. vaughn hilliard there. appreciate it. joining me now is john fun, columnist at the national review. so you ve heard a lot of
for reid to say this is domestic terrorism when not a shot has been fired is beyond the pale. cut to the chase for me, john, as you see it, explain the politics behind all of this. i think the democratic party is in trouble. obamacare isn t doing well. the economy is very sluggish. foreign policy isn t going well. so in the midterm election when voter turnout is down, there s an active effort to ramp up the base, rile up the base. you see that in all the calls about the war on women. you see that in all the calls about the environmental issues. ramping up the base and, of course, the president making a speech about voter id laws and said a lot of things that simply weren t true, this is part of that. you took a lot of pieces of a puzzle, i need you to connect it for me if you energize your active supporters, get them riled up,
the rancher s sister. take a listen. these people who hold themselves out to be patriots are not. they re nothing more than domestic terrorists. we re not terrorists. we re united states citizens. we love our country. we ve had family fight and die in the wars. we are anything but terrorists. joining us now, john fun, columnist for national review magazine. good to have you today. let s talk about this. you re saying this is going beyond semantics. tell me why you think applying the words domestic terrorism to this case is inflammatory. we should lower the temperature on all sides. it was only 2009 the fort hood massacre where the obama administration refused to call it domestic terrorism. they said it was workplace violence even though the guy yelled out muslim incantations when he committed his crime.