you know, if you look at the people who are going be eligible these are working people who are low wages who don t have healthcare. they are exactly the kind of people most governors should want to help. chris: let s start some would say we have already been talking about it. let s turn to the politics of this. governor romney says that he will end obama care on day one of the presidency and says it raises taxes by $500 billion and cuts medicare by $500 billion and adds trillions of dollars to the denver he sit. are you happy to see deficit. are you happy to see obama care be a referendum this this election? i think the facts are different than that. the congressional budget office made clear that the healthcare law saves not spends money. it puts important mechanisms in place to help get control of healthcare spending more broadly. when was governor of massachusetts governor romney put a plan in place that has many of the features that the affordable care act makes available o
way because he once was guilty of this. chris: charles to the degree that the november election and i think we all agree it will not be the central issue to the degree it becomes a referendum on obama care, on the one part the president can emphasize the parts of the plan that are popular like preexisting conditions orchids can stay on their parent s insurance until they are are 26. on the other hand, romney can say feeds into the whole idea that obama is a big government president? i always felt that politically the best result for the republican party of this supreme court case would be some ruling upholding the mandate and the reason for that is that this election both sides are pursuing as a base mobilizing election. get your loyalists motivated to go to the polls and nothing motivates the republican base like the boogieman of obama care. that is one thing they all agree on. now, you just heard mitt romney
class. but mitt romney has a mandate in his massachusetts healthcare reform plan, and the people in massachusetts paid more than $20 million last year in that mandate, pen amount, tax, whatever you penalty, whatever want to call it, isn t that a tax. that was a massachusetts decision not a national decision. number two, every single set of democratic every democratic senator voted for obama care. it passed without a vote to spare. every single democratic incumbent on the ballot in november was the deciding vote to pass this bill. this law is deeply unpopular with the american people. these senate races across american will indeed be a river ren dumb on th river reeferen job killing mandate. if the obama mandate is a tax
guilty of this. to the degree of the november election i don t think it will be the central issue but to the degree it becomes a referendum in obama care one hand the president can emphasize the parts of the plan that are popular like as we talked about preexisting conditions or kids can stay on their parents s insurance until they are 26. it feeds into the idea that obama is it a big government president. i have always felt that politically the best result for the republican party of this supreme court case would be some ruling upholding the mandate. the reason for that is that this election both sides are pursuing a base mobilizing election. get your loyalists motivated to go to the polls. nothing motivates the republican base like the bogeyman of bow ma a obama care. you just heard mitt rom nae or
but mitt romney has a mandate in his massachusetts healthcare reform plan and the people in massachusetts paid more than $20 million last year in that mandate penalty tax whatever you want to call it so isn t that a romney tax on the middle class. in. i have two thoughts dallas. number one, that was a decision and not a national decision. every democratic senator voted for obama care. it passed with not a vote to spare. every single democratic incumbent on the ballot this november was the deciding vote to pass this bill. this law is deeply unpopular with the american people. these senate races across america will, indeed, be a referendum on this job-killing healthcare tax increasing measure. chris: but if i may, sir,, you didn t answer my direct question. if the obama mandate is a tax on the middle class, isn t the