they re saying no just because they want to do anything to stop during the plan cancellation frenzy, this was my hobby horse. okay, fine, the people getting their plans canceled, i understand, that s frustrating and angry for them, but talk to people who are being denied medicaid expansion because they re frustrated, too. overcovered. in the last few months, the culture war stories, black santa, pajama boy and then duck dynasty over the past few days. oh, yeah, not like we did nine segments on them. i wrote a piece on duck dynasty on friday and on saturday you are milking it. those are my most popular stories of the year on any topic you re part of the problem, not part of the solution. and i m going to quit writing about monetary policy and housing and just write about duck dynasty. as ron burgundy says in the upcoming anchorman 2, he says why do we have to give people the news they need rather than the news they want.
vulnerable people in the country, most in need of the expansion, but you also have 4.8 million people who should be getting the medicaid expansion who won t because governors have decided basically that they want to spite the president. the federal government would pay 100% of the cost of this program for the first three years and then 90% of it thereafter, and they re saying no just because they want to do anything to stop during the plan cancellation frenzy, this was my hobby horse. okay, fine, the people getting their plans canceled, i understand, that s frustrating and angry for them, but talk to people who are being denied medicaid expansion because they re frustrated, too. overcovered. in the last few months, the culture war stories, black santa, pajama boy and then duck dynasty over the past few days. oh, yeah, not like we did nine segments on them. i wrote a piece on duck dynasty on friday and on saturday you are milking it. those are my most popular stories
in the personal story segment tonight, we have all been there. sitting around the dinner table, trapped by the relative who must talk politics but has no idea what he is talking about. the left likes to think it s always the crazy right wing uncle who hijacks the holidays. it s usually that idealistic left wing college kids who come man deers the conversation right before asking you for money. what to do? well, joining me how comedian tom with insight on helping you to survive. do you have plans for christmas or is it the ymca again? do i have plans. great to be here mr. o reilly. great to finally meet you. excellent. president obama told people to bring obamacare up during the holidays. did you see the pajama boy they have? yes. this is the worst thing. they want people to stay in pajamas until mid afternoon. that is a shame. how are we supposed to be
the website and think they are signing up and there are still questions about whether those people when january 1st hits, when payments hit, whether they are actually ensured. and that is the big problem. there is a rush of traffic today and anticipate that there will be similar traffic into tomorrow. i don t know how your december 23rd went, but i won t have any more time tomorrow than i did today, but i have none. but someone will hang in if they didn t get in tonight and sign up on campus eve, that said even with good traffic, people who become en rollies are not necessarily insured because the insurance companies won t know until january when they are paidment the people who have their own self-insured policies, many of have become uninsured in january. the administration is trying desperately with a p.r. campaign. pajama boy.
million sign-up goal and that could be disastrous and we need enough healthy people to sign up to offset the sick folks. if that doesn t happen then medical costs could be brutal pchl. that s exactly right. the marketplace argument behind this plan is that if you get enough healthy people to sign up, if they can be induced, the young people, that awful pajama boy ad was trying to induce young people to sign up, that will create the balance to lower costs for everybody. if you don t have enough young healthy people signing up, the market dynamic doesn t work. already you re seeing a lot of health insurance companies push back and say, look, all of these last-minute changes may work for politics but they hurt the practicality. at the end of the day the impact this has on the midterm elections, there is still time for people to see. it s not like the current health care system is real popular in america. but the market dynamics that were supposed to work to bring down costs seem fundame