and mike levitt. governor, dealt with a medicaid program and one is obama care and expansion of medicaid. what is the good points and what would be the concerns you would have if you were faced with expanding medicaid today under obama care. i am dating myself, mike. back in the dark ages when i was in the house and senate and there were very few republicans, the federal government man dated 55 miles per hour speed limit. you didn t do it you lost money. everybody would like a free lunch. but the problem is there were 16 million new people put on medicaid and that will last three years and maybe the federal government picks up the tab. but if the federal government can t keep the white house open for tours how will they pick up the tab?
my oklahoma or bob wise west virginia, that is federalism. the more you experiment and let the states decide the issues themselves. better outcomes and i will. michael levitt, you not only helped to implement it but design it and it worked, why? mike, i remember when you were governor of arnsas and i was secretary of health, you came to me and said i have an idea. i would like to take some of the money from medicaid and design a state program and i could get thousands of people in arkansas insurance who are not get today with the same money. that s the kind of innovation that needs to be empowered. i did the same thing as governor. if you turn it to the states they could design programs that are consistent with what they are doing in their state and use the money better. well, all of you did that