can t deal with the complexities of an adaptive, modern society. if obama care was an anomaly, that would be one thing. but tell me one thing washington is doing a good job at. education, a disaster. social security, it s bankrupt a ponzi scheme. name something washington is doing can t manage its fiscal account. they said part of the problem of being president is the government is so vast, you can t know what s going on underneath it. government seems to be expanded? that s the wrong answer. i think millions of seniors thinks social security and medicare are working pretty well, but it s good to know my republican colleagues don t like social security and medicare, which is a long-running one. let me just say about this. obviously there have been challenges. but, you know, i ve worked in health care policy for quite a long time, and i remember the rollout of the medical care prescription drug bill, which there were a lot of problems with. and i remember senators,
can t deal with the complexities of an adaptive, modern society. if obama care was an anomaly, that would be one thing. but tell me one thing washington is doing a good job at. education, a disaster. social security, it s bankrupt a ponzi scheme. name something washington is doing can t manage its fiscal account. they said part of the problem of being president is the government is so vast, you can t know what s going on underneath it. government seems to be expanded? that s the wrong answer. i think millions of seniors thinks social security and medicare are working pretty well, but it s good to know my republican colleagues don t like social security and medicare, which is a long-running one. let me just say about this. obviously there have been challenges. but, you know, i ve worked in health care policy for quite a long time, and i remember the rollout of the medical care prescription drug bill, which there were a lot of problems with. and i remember senators,
i think millions of seniors thinks social security and medicare are working pretty well, but it s good to know my republican colleagues don t like social security and medicare, which is a long-running one. let me just say about this. obviously there have been challenges. but, you know, i ve worked in health care policy for quite a long time, and i remember the rollout of the medical care prescription drug bill, which there were a lot of problems with. and i remember senators, republican senators, saying don t throw the baby out with the bath water. one of those senators was rick santorum at a hearing saying, you know, let s have patience with this. it s going to work out. and the medicare bill has worked out. that was a complex system. in fact, it was much, much more it was not a government rollout. it was run by cns just like this is. these are private options just like this is. it s not just like this is. this administration, unlike the medicare prescription drug, this admi
so let s get together of the? what would be so terrible about that? would you lose so much face over that? well, no, i think you re right. i think this president had said this bill is not perfect. no bill is going to be perfect. i think if you ask george w. bush about the prescription drug bill he would also say that bill wasn t perfect. what he is saying is, let s implement the bill and work on fixing it as we go along in the process. what we ve seen from the other side of the aisle they will do everything in their power to dismantle it, even though the benefits of bill are already starting to be seen. first of all three million young people are back on parents health care insurance. people with preexisting conditions can get coverage. now time for exchanges to go into place which allows for millions of americans to finally get coverage and have a chance to go to the doctor. republicans all they want to do is repeal. they have instituted no type of replacement. it continues to be a
spending and balance the budget. don t give me that, this sounds too good to be true. so i think on your before you leave, you should tell people how we can spend more not so much indirect spending, but in tax credits, and still wind up reducing overall federal spending by $110 billion during this decade. well, couple things just in terms of how this whole thing got paid for. first of all, i think it s really important to point out here that the total cost of the affordable care act to provide health insurance for every american out there at an affordable rate is costing about the same amount over a course of ten years as the costs of the prescription drug bill that president bush passed, except that wasn t paid for. we felt obliged to actually pay