you into voting for me i just want to say hi and after it s all over, your insurance rate will go down and you ll vote for me in 2016 so i ll talk to you later. are you going to announce? no. he s going to be successful. we re going to make changes to gun laws. i think we ll do some on a national basis and we re clearly already starting it on a state by state basis. so i m there is going to be a level of success. it s locked in and i think you have to put that into i know it s hard for what people in washington to think that something might actually be gotten done but it s going do happen. this newtown changed discussion and whatever is not gotten in the first round, eventually will be gotten because there s going to be more newtowns. we re so far extended on access to weapons of mass destruction that there are going to be other incidention. we were looking in the wrong place, right? right. who would you re right. they are here. you know? and when a disturbed individu
expansion out is south carolina. the spokesman for governor nikki haley says we re not going to shove more south carolinaens in to a broken system that ties our hands when we know the best way to find south carolina solutions for south carolina health problems is through flexibility that block grants provide. how are those south carolina solutions working out? 19% of south carolina residents are uninsured. that s well above the national average. the medicaid expansion in the law would cut south carolina s insurance rate to folks making less than 133% of poverty by 56%. 56% of the uninsured in that group wiped out in one go. that s the fourth best deal any state in the nation will get under the affordable care act. the cost of that for the federal government is significant. almost $11 billion. for south carolina, they will pay less than 500 million. in the short term, the rising
nibbling around the margins. the big bulk of it comes in a couple of years, but if this isç any indication of what we re going to see, people like it a lot. they like being protected from both insurance companies and from bad luck. ezra klein, nbc policy analyst and somebody who never has to apologize for being boring because you have yet to be boring. well, thank you. at least here. thank you, ezra, i appreciate it. you know, i will say that the really bold move here, i mean, maybe it s true. maybe nobody messages for health reform on the election and it depends on who s the next president. the but the bold move here would be for the president to use massachusetts as the example. to say look, this is the template. look what mitt romney did. 100% insurance rate for kids. 98% for the rest of the population. look how well it s working for massachusetts and great care. you re about to stay that. stick with me.
the big bulk of it comes in a couple of years, but if this is any indication of what we re going to see, people like it a lot. they like being protected from both insurance companies and from bad luck. ezra klein, nbc policy analyst and somebody who never has to apologize for being boring because you have yet to be boring. well, thank you. at least here. thank you, ezra, i appreciate it. you know, i will say that the really bold move here, i mean, maybe it s true. maybe nobody messages for health reform on the election and it depends on who s the next president. the but the bold move here would be for the president to use massachusetts as the example. to say look, this is the templa template. look what mitt romney did. 100% insurance rate for kids. 98% for the rest of the population. look how well it s working for massachusetts and great care.
they like being protected from both insurance companies and from bad luck. ezra klein, nbc policy analyst and somebody who never has to apologize for being boring because you have yet to be boring.ç well, thank you. at least here. thank you, ezra, i appreciate it. you know, i will say that the really bold move here, i mean, maybe it s true. maybe nobody messages for health reform on the election and it depends on who s the next president. the but the bold move here would be for the president to use massachusetts as the example. to say look, this is the template. look what mitt romney did. 100% insurance rate for kids. 98% for the rest of the population. look how well it s working for massachusetts and great care. you re about to stay that. stick with me. i went to a small high school.