this was something that was identified at the time. the question was whether you stick with the existing definition of income, which they did, or whether you rewrite the tax code and bill: that s what he said. he said it keeps him up at night. he s one of these guys that are crunching the numbers, trying to figure out what the cost is going to be, and it seems like these markers keep shifting every week. actually, this is an important point. the fact is that when the cbo scored this and the savings and the costs, they did take into account this provision. so the cost estimate cbo had took this into account. now, if you were to modify it, maybe you could get cost savings, but again, i want to stress, these individuals between the ages of 62 and 65, they re not high income individuals. i agree they shouldn t be on medicaid but they will therefore they will. bill: they will qualify for medicaid the way the law is now.
happen? you need 400,000 new jobs each and every month for the next 16 months, all the way through election day, to guarantee that the unemployment rate would be below 7 percent on election day. that s what you need. four hundred thousand new jobs each and every month. bill: is that the trend stuart? no it s not the trend. we re not even close, not a prayer of getting to that level in the immediate future. bill: what about house something where are we there? housing is still going down in terms of home prices. we may hit bottom over the next 16 months. i don t know, but we may hit bottom. but that would not be a restoration of the money that all of us have in our own homes. so it s not going to get back to a position of prosperity in jobs or housing by the november of 2012. bill: that s 16 months, assuming we re not going to hit a bottom by then? you may hit a bottom in howing but that does not comply an immediate spring board back to restore the
would be the simple employee cheap simply cheaper to do so. bill: richard foster, i don t know if you know him, he s quoted in this article, saying the situation a situation like this, keeps him up at night and is like allowing middle class people to qualify for food stamps and that is not what the system is set up for. no, it s not what we were told it was going to be and basically what already, under obamacare, half of the 32 million people who have gained coverage are get it by getting enrolled on medicaid and medicaid is not a great health insurance provider. but, basically what they are trying to do and it is a little disappointing for people who think, now i have great health insurance, they are on medicaid but, what the ultimate goal, at least, the critics like me, of obamacare and of the approach is to eventually destroy the independent private insurance sector and get everybody into a government system, and, then there is no you know, there
this, editor-at-large for the national review on-line and a fox news contributor. good morning to you. bill, good to see you. bill: chris van hollen s point is we knew this from the senate version that was handed back to the house. and, he also insists there is time to fix it. now, where are you on this issue? well, if we knew it was in there, but there is time to fix it, why don t we fix it, when it was still being written? and, look, at the end of the day, remember when nancy pelosi said we have to pass the law to find out what is in it? this isn t just the latest example of a slew of these things, where the bill is full of stuff that we are finding out as we go. that it will be more expensive and more complicated and more difficult and, philosophical opponents of all of this, like me, who said that this is really pushing the country towards the sort of social democracy, european style system, where the relationship between the individual and the state changes, and this is a pe
in providing any information that they have. because they re the last ones to have seen her. so it s critical that we get everything we can in terms of information from those people. bill: we put the telephone number on the screen several times. thank you. bill: charlene, i want to ask you one more time, how are you keeping it together during this? we have a tremendous support group here, the people of bloomington, the bloomington police department, our friends that have come from new york, new jersey, and people are coming from all over the place. but which is a tremendous support group for us, and my biggest support is lauren. you know, i m determined, we re determined, to find her, and that s what keeps us going, every single day that we get up, you know, she s our key focus. i was going to say, i would like to add that