to face more questions. he was asked about this yesterday, whether or not they would detail that insurance mandate penalty, the mandate that people buy insurance by a certain date early of next year in order to avoid that tax penalty from the irs. jay carney is going to be hit with more questions on that. that story is obviously not going anywhere, wolf. you know what i want to do, i want to listen to jay carney right now. he s briefing reporters. have experienced with the website every day improvements are being made. i discussed some of them yesterday. so did the president. every day, we are seeing more indications of more and more americans getting access to affordable be health insurance they did not have before. i would point you to the news out of ohio yesterday, the significant decision taken there. a state with a republican governor where which is now joining other states with republican governors to adopt the expansion of medicaid which will provide insurance to
mandate penalty in states whether they adopted an exchange or not. we believe that is inconsistent with the affordable care act and amended our complaint to challenge the irs rule adopted may 18. shannon: talk about a case that both of your states are involved with and this has to do with the dodd frank legislation that was passed that deals with regulating wall street and other financial institutions. you are worryd that it would call for liquidation of certain entities. what is your concern there? both dodd frank and the affordable care act represent an attitude that has been permiated out of washington for the last two years. an attitude that, washington, knows best. they tried to seize the healthcare sector of the economy through the affordable care act and through you dodd frank did the same with the financial sectors. senator dodd and congressman frank tried to consolidate and did consolidate power in
constitutional. chris: i can t let you go there. it specifically said it is not constitutional under the commerce clause and it is under the tax. as to raising taxes for the middle class. let s look at the record. the nonpartisan congressional budget office estimates in 2016, 4 million americans will pay the mandate penalty or tax. 75% of those people will make less than $120,000 a year and the cbo says between 2012 and 2021 those folks will pay $27 billion in additional taxes. so if i may just finish my question and then i promise i will let you talk. the middle class is taking quite a hit by what the supreme court said is a tax. i think if you look at all of the laws enacted in the last three and a half years you would see that the families have a tax cut. all of the independent analysts whether it is the congressional budget office or others would validate there has been a tax cut. chris: i m not arguing that. all i m saying is this is a tax
it specifically said it s not constitutional under the commerce clause, they said it is constitutional under the tax and as to the question about raising taxes for the middle class, if i may, sir, look at the record. the nonpartisan congressional budget office estimates that in 2016, 4 million americans will pay the mandate penalty or tax, and 75% of those people will make less than $120,000 a year. and, the ceo says between 2012 and 2021 those folks will pay 27 billion dollars in additional taxes. so. chris. if i may let me finish my question and i promise i ll let you talk, the middle class is taking quite a hit by what the supreme court said is a tax. i think if you look at all of the laws enacted in the last three-and-a-half years you would see the families had a tax cut and all of the independent analysts, whether the congressional budget office or others, would validate that there has been a tax cut i m not arguing that.
jobs coming from the full implementation of the health care law. republicans only have lies because they have no alreadyturnatives. it s to repeal and replace obama care. they have the repeal thing down good. they just don t plan to replace it. what do we do for 57 million people who have existing conditions? we re going to work on that. the mantra has been repeal and replace. is there an idea of what the replace will be? no, we want to take it in a deliberate, open approach and take everybody s ideas. you re not going to hear mitt romney talking about any replaceme replacement alternatives. he s also not going to talk about how the health care law raises taxes. he was for the mandate penalty three years ago, in 2009, he wrote using tax penalties as we did, encourages free riders to take responsibility for themselves rather than pass their medical costs on to others. hey, mitt, come on over to the