week, possibly as early as tomorrow. i just want to make two points. one is that in terms of the sort of notion of the free market system and there have been proposals about what that looks like. the mandate. the mandate was the version, right? the mandate was the idea that you get risk pooling by requiring this, of course, that is the model that mitt romney puts into effect in massachusetts. the politics of this is interesting because mitt romney will talk about it, which he doesn t like to do. one thing i would like to emphasize the market for health care is different than the market for all sorts of other goods for a whole bunch of reasons. but one of the big reasons it s different is that the consumer dozen make decisions about what they will consume. the key market mechanism is that i walk into bed, bath & beyond and i want those shower curtains and those shower curtains and make my decision. i don t have a doctor that comes in and says, you have to get
pays $1.3 billion in aid so buy u.s.-made weapons and the egyptian people are sitting there saying, when do we get a say in this because none is on the rights of our freedom of rights and democracy. the u.s. one is not one that is looked upon sympathetically. i just want to respond there and interject one thing and you are the expert on these matters and i m sitting here in new york and you re sitting there in cairo and it is important for the american audience to understand that there is a base of popular support for the regime, whether that is completely the product of propaganda because they have been eculturated to it and system that buys people off, but genuinely millions of egyptians who do want to see the regime and power and want to see shafik announce the winner. isn t that correct? well, let me put it down in just plain numbers for you. in the first round of the elections, mohamed morsi got 25%
square. who is massing in the square and why are they massing there? behind me are supporters of hamid morsi. there are some revolutionary groups. largely the crowd behind me is mostly supporters of the presidential candidate, morsi. in another part of town last evening supporters for the rival. the mood in the city, in general, one of great tension and a lot of anxiety and a lot of rumors that there is a curfew imposed and to give you a sense, though, the anxiety building up here over the last several days and no doubt that there is a little bit of anger. and the tension is based on the fact that it sounds from the reporting i ve read, from the folks that i talked to and even people i talked to in the u.s. government that it is genuinely unknown what this announcement will be that staff, which is
it or not. to me, just completely a moral calculation interest the bill s failure whether it is struck down is a huge political blow for liberals. broadly. the idea that you can double down after that is a dubious one. i want to talk to someone who is on the ground in the city of detroit working with folks that are low-income that don t have health care that are just in the grinder of the system we have and what life looks like for them now and what it will look like on the day after this is struck down, if it is or the day it s upheld, right after this. s. and when you switch from another company to us, we even reward you for the time you spent there. genius. yeah, genius. you guys must have your own loyalty program, right? well, we have something. show her, tom. huh? you should see november! oh, yeah? giving you more. now that s progressive.
underestimated the political faith of his opponents. in terms of the tax issue, one thing we ll see in the decision is the fact that if it had been explicitly call would a tax rebate, it s almost certainly constitutional and one of the things the supreme court justice ess are going to rule os whether the actual letters, the combination of the letters, t-a-x make it constitutional, not the structure of the policy, actually these letters attached to it. more on the affordable care act, when we come back.