Secretary saying president obama still has confidence in hhs secretary kathleen sebelius, still as you point out trying to shift the conversation and narrative away from those hearings on capitol hill today. he s going to defend the law and also urge patience by drawing parallels to the massachusetts law. i expect him to make a couple of key points, one that the rollout was slow here in massachusetts, 132 people signed up in the first month. those numbers started to grow and swell over time and also going to say massachusetts is an example of universal health care working, 97% of people in massachusetts have health care right now. there are stark differences between what took place here in massachusetts and president s health care law. for one, the obvious, this is a state. you re catering to a much smaller population. massachusetts didn t see the number of glitches and problems with signing up.
Does paul ryan bring in the way of energizing aside from the fact that he has bona fide conservative chops that maybe the governor from massachusetts didn t have? for one thing he is very exciting. obviously a much younger candidate. several years younger than the president. he is only 42. and so in some respects republicans think here that they can narrow the gap with obama on the younger demographic, the 1 18 to 29-year-old vote that is so important that helped president obama over the edge in 2008. it could help with suburban women as well. paul ryan is a young father and appeals to families. so in many ways he is a different kind of pick from mitt romney. he is not the sort of boring pick that some republicans thought that they might get and some of the older possibilities on that short list. shepard: if they were to have gone with a safe list and you can throw out the names if you want, they are out there. gone with a safe pick that doesn t change the narrative.
vice president, biden, took the obama s case to blue collar youngstown casting mitt romney as a son of privilege and vice president saying his record suggests that governor romney cares more about profits than workers. my mother and father dreamed as much as any rich guy dreams. they don t get us. they don t get who we are. now, word from the vice president was from a battleground within the battleground. let s look at ohio. this is the 2008 map. barack obama carried the state 52% to 48%. a lot of red in here for john mccain. president obama went where the people are. this is youngstown. this is where the vice president was. in the general election, then senator obama carried it quite convincingly. this was hillary clinton country. you have white, blue collar workers. i am going to bring the state back. hillary clinton carried ohio big-time. president obama winning where you have african-american population. white blue collar workers, a big problem for barack obama. why
He he has shown in the debates that he can bob and weave and draw these things about what he did and what obama did well enough so that in the end it s going to be a choice. do you want obama care? elect obama. if you don t, elect the republic romney. it will be a stark yes or. no i think the strength of the opposition is such that even if it s a romney, in the end, people who oppose obama care and they are a majority are going to go republic on account of that and it will be a very strong issue. bret: one point. if he gets the nomination in this battle that is continuing, will romney general election candidate romney have to say, you know what? massachusetts didn t work in the big picture? no. i think, in fact, the time for him to have done that if he was going to do it would have been before the primary to disown it and say look, if anybody knows it didn t work, i know it. that s why we can t attempt something like this nationally. i agree this has helped rick santorum in the pri
People purchase the mandatory coverage. they both expand the government medicaid program, higher up the income scale. they tell everybody what kind of health insurance plan you have to purchase. every material way the laws are exactly the same. at a glance, here are the major similarities between the two laws. both establish an veg mandate. expand medicaid coverage. place requirements on employers. subsidize low-income residents, unable to meet medicaid and other requirements. and both create exchanges for choosing healthcare providers. but some say there are significant differences. tim murphy served as governor romney secretary of health and human services. the difference has fall on the a couple of categories. one is how it was financed. massachusetts didn t raise a tax, use its own resources, redirect existing money to change the pay in which healthcare was financed and delivered and covered within