bureaucratic that physicians just won t take medicaid patients so our concern is, that people on medicaid can t get a doctor and if you can t get a doctor, what good is your coverage? we think there are a lot of good medicaid reforms at the state level. indiana is one state, wisconsin we had done good reforms to make sure people of low income get good coverage but also get access to care, actually get doctors that will take that care. we want to see more of those state based solutions so that we can make sure that coverage actually works. you re right on the numbers. about 10 million people got it on medicaid. there are about another i think 11.5 million that got health care on obama care. obama care at this time was supposed to have 23 million people. so it s 11 million instead of 23 million. it s far missed the mark but the problem is more and more people just are getting a plan that they can t use because their deductible is so high or we have a medicaid problem.
your new day. number one, a psychiatric patient suspected of killing his parent was caught in tennen. this is one day after escaping from a south carolina hospital. in 2006, a court found jason mark charter not guilty by reason of insanity for the murder of his father and stepmother. a judge said carter was not supervised when he escaped in violation of rules. number two, members of an honor guard were seriously hurt when a van hit a load of logs. police cited the van s driver for failure to yield. the driver of the log truck was slightly hurt but refused medical treatment. number 3, a medicaid problem in north carolina. now the state s department of health and human services mailed almost 49,000 medicaid cards to the wrong people. according to our affiliate wral, officials were trying to issue new cards to about 70,000
this is not fair. this is really not fair. those headlines have to do with how republicans got in the way from it being implemented and per request of the republican governors. per that request it went to. it went to the states. okay, okay, go a head tony. i am glad you brought that up, tony. what obama care does to expand the medicaid problem and largest sign item. they are drawning in debt and bankruptcy because of medicare costs. the supreme court in the united states in ruling it unconstitutional said states could decide whether or not they participate. harry reid did. and democratic leader did. and two senators whose votes they needed. we remember. and they were sweetheart deals
to keep this federal money. they wanted that money. then the state did two other things. they first covered everyone they could cover in their medicaid problem so they could get the most possible match from the federal government. right now federal medicaid from the federal government that is an incredible deal for people in massachusetts. they re getting subsidized by the rest of the country. and then the third way romney paid for it is massachusetts had long before romney was governor, imposed a tax in order to reimburse hospitals for the care they provided to the uninsured. romney took that tax and put it towards his law. so that s two pots of federal money sand a tax. so how much of romney s proposal relied on these funds? i asked jonathan gruber the mit who helped design the law. he told me 100%. that was my whole job, saying whether we could fit what he wanted to do within those three funding sources. the legislature ended up adding
universal health care plan. that s how it got started. romney and kennedy were trying to keep this federal money. they wanted that money. then the state did two other things. they first covered everyone they could cover in their medicaid problem so they could get the most possible match from the federal government. right now federal medicaid from the federal government that is an incredible deal for people in massachusetts. they re getting subsidized by the rest of the country. and then the third way romney paid for it is massachusetts had long before romney was governor, imposed a tax in order to reimburse hospitals for the the care they provided to the uninsured. romney took that tax and put it towards his law. so that s two pots of federal money sand a tax. so how much of romney s proposal relied on these funds? i asked jonathan gruber the mit who helped design the law.