yesterday and thought pancreatic cancer. do you know why she didn t make her battle more public? i have no idea. we weren t that close. okay. i appreciate it. charlie, i apologize for the audio. i want to thank you for coming on as we re all honoring a true hero. thank you so much. top of the hour. just into us here, the congressional budget office just releasing the new price tag of president obama s health care law. i want to go straight to the white house. the u.s. supreme court decision making a huge difference involving medicaid. reporter: the congressional budget office say that now seven million people will be covered through the medicaid expansion. remember the supreme court said states have the right to opt out. back in march the rejection was 13 million people could get coverage. now that s down the six. they project about half of those six million, three million will get coverage through those health insurance exchanges that the sates are setting up. $7 m
i am just asking you a question. in your utopia university. in my utopia universe, it wouldn t just be banks that would have a line it would be individuals, anybody that wants to charter a new bank. glass steegle was not to increase the chartering of narrow banks. if you want to start a narrow bank, you can charter it. deepak, i am going to let you respond. canada, germany, other countries with banking systems that had high levels of regulation, don t have huge foreclosure crisis, they made small reasonable rates of return doing plain vanilla business. the key in canada, canada didn t have glass steegle, which is a real important point. they had universal banks. the key difference in canada, the key difference in canada was canadian regulators said bozle 2 is not good enough. they said to their banks, we are
question. in your utopia university. in my utopia universe, it wouldn t just be banks that would have a line it would be individuals, anybody that wants to charter a new bank. glass steegle was not to increase the chartering of narrow banks. if you want to start a narrow bank, you can charter it. deepak, i am going to let you respond. canada, germany, other countries with banking systems that had high levels of regulation, don t have huge foreclosure crisis, they made small reasonable rates of return doing plain vanilla business. the key in canada, canada didn t have glass steegle, which is a real important point. they had universal banks. the key difference in canada, the key difference in canada was canadian regulators said bozle 2 is not good enough. they said to their banks, we are going to require you to hold
12,000. a line it first crossed in 2006. hasn t touched since 2008. at the closing bell it was just below 12,000. up triple digits on the day. at the highest point in two years. almost three. the nasdaq up 2. s&p up 7. neither snow nor rain will stop the mailman. some cost cutting measures could close thousands of local post offices. according to the reporting of the wall street journal owned by the parent company of this network, in march the postal service will start closing as many as 2,000 postal post offices across the nation. the agency set to review 16,000 other post offices operating in the red. it s lobbying congress to change the law so it can close post offices based on how little profit they make. the postal service reported a record $8.5 billion in losses just last year. well, state governments across the country doing no better. looking for ways to fill massive budget deficits. now some in the sunshine state
the nation. shep: they did. where the line it, everyone understand politics need our side to win and your side to lose. republicans wanted to get the tax thing done first and pressure on the white house. this is an issue they used without question. was that too far . this an issue too much. republicans are right to say we had to pass the tax cut. we need to create jobs and get our economy growing. i think they were right using every lever in their tool kit to make sure they were passed. but now it is over . this bill has been around for sometime. in the house they had 20 hearings on the bill. senator gillibrand amended it.