additional 200 million dollar burden of expanding medicaid so massive live. you did point out and some of the spending power limitation of the chief justice and six others. this was a 7-2 vote was that they couldn t threaten our other 3 billion dollars worth of federal funding for medicaid to provide health care for the poor. to hold at that over our heads, to force us effectively into this new medicaid expansion. so. and lastly. i hope we don t and i think it s unlikely in virginia. lastly, i want to mention, you talked about the repeal option that mitt romney is clearly campaigning on. do you feel he should find and discuss a replacement option, how the republicans would counter, with their own plan should they get that done? absolutely. you can t just be about saying no, you ve got to have positive alternatives, this has been a bipartisan failure for ten years, but when you say replace, you re speaking the singular. i think the way we need to do this is we don t need another
not the case, that with the president trodding out all these sob story examples of people they can t get coverage they have a preexisting condition and tug at people s heart strings kids lose coverage or kids being thrown off their parent s plans. don t republicans need to have a clear and meaningful replacement option? is it enough just to it say we re going to repeal it? we never have. we have great options options that won t cost the taxpayers a dime. a very simple one is to let any american buy any health insurance policy they want in america with no minimum rimplets that cost zero but it brings down the price of healthcare. then we can let americans buy it with their own tax free money. you can t do that today. that brings down the price. then we can have true medical malpractice reform. that doesn t cost the taxpayers. three things that won t cost the taxpayers. that s just the beginning of reform. we have great ideas, lauer, what we know with obama care is that millions of peo
not the case, that with the president trodding out all these sob story examples of people they can t get coverage they have a preexisting condition and tug at people s heart strings kids lose coverage or kids being thrown off their parent s plans. don t republicans need to have a clear and meaningful replacement option? is it enough just to it say we re going to repeal it? we never have. we have great options options that won t cost the taxpayers a dime. a very simple one is to let any american buy any health insurance policy they want in america with no minimum rimplets that cost zero but it brings down the price of healthcare. then we can let americans buy it with their own tax free money. you can t do that today. that brings down the price. then we can have true medical malpractice reform. that doesn t cost the taxpayers. three things that won t cost the taxpayers. that s just the beginning of reform. we have great ideas, lauer, what we know with obama care is that millions of peo
not the case, that with the president trodding out all these sob story examples of people they can t get coverage they have a preexisting condition and tug at people s heart strings kids lose coverage or kids being thrown off their parent s plans. don t republicans need to have a clear and meaningful replacement option? is it enough just to it say we re going to repeal it? we never have. we have great options options that won t cost the taxpayers a dime. a very simple one is to let any american buy any health insurance policy they want in america with no minimum rimplets that cost zero but it brings down the price of healthcare. then we can let americans buy it with their own tax free money. you can t do that today. that brings down the price. then we can have true medical malpractice reform. that doesn t cost the taxpayers. three things that won t cost the taxpayers. that s just the beginning of reform. we have great ideas, lauer, what we know with obama care is that millions of peo
insurance. for some of them, it s a matter of life and death, so congress is playing politics, but for people, this is really important, and the question is, are they just going to allow this, as he says, to just fail and not have any kind of replacement option in place for them right away? and then what happens to those people? the republicans are in charge of congress and the administration. because you can t imagine or one couldn t imagine left, right, or center, the notion of the government hastening, to use your word, a failure so that people would become more ill, more sick, because they wouldn t have this coverage because, essentially, republicans, the president himself, saying republicans aren t going to own it, we ll let it fail and therefore that s when the democrats come calling. yeah. i mean, we don t know whether the democrats are going to come. we don t know whether the republicans are going to have a fix on their own. i mean, mcconnell has spoken about having a marke