that, in fact the circumstances are not as being presented by outside groups or republicans. you think maybe the white house would back off though and not step away from harry reid s comments but no, they are kind of doubling down on it as well. yeah, because if you look to this sort of strategy for 201, all these democrats falling in line with that message, are they playing, saying this on the show this week like good cop, bad cop. harry reid bad cop. all these other guys get to run in the darkness. is that good strategy? i noticed former bush speech writer said kind of a losing attitude to have leading up to an election like that here is mark. let s get this straight. barack obama lied to the american people about obama care. every single senate democrat who is running for re-election this year told the exact same lie. their strategy to regain the trust of the american people is to call the american people lirsz. have they lost their minds? harry reid is the same guy who in
form 911, like 911 for help. taxpayer advocate. walk you through the process. mike, believe it or not, it s not as scary as you think. a lot of times the irs is just asking for more information. might not be a full blown audit. i promise i would have them done by the end of february and here is march 1st. see you back in philly. pay now, verify later. the white house giving out obamacare subsidies for all the latest change from the administration straight ahead. and getting breakfast in a hurry. stick around for. this we re breaking down the best and worst options from some of your fast food favorites, yeah. taco bell. so our business can be on at&t s network for $175 a month?
either fastened to the bone or put inside the bone to treat serious fractures or deformities of the legs and the spine. it s fantastic what you are doing. we don t want to lose your company. this excise tax a little over 2%, what s it doing to you? we are a company that still isn t profitable. so the only way we can stump up the money to pay this tax is to reduce the pay of hiring of a rapidly growing business and to cut the pace of new product development. development is very expensive. it really is it s exextremely expensive and it s the life blood of a company like ours that is at the forefront of medical technology. i thought when i think excise taxes, i think like tax on alcohol and stuff like that. medical device for kids. is it just a technique thick to pay for obamacare? yeah. the affordable care act is in part financed by this thing. but what this tax ignores is
that 800% of the companies in the medical device space are small businesses like ours. but this is where all the innovation comes from. right. and the average profitability of these 80% of the medical device companies is only 6% of sales. have you had to cut back on any employees? no. we have not done that we are not likely the big medical device companies that have cut these jobs, actually the statistic that you quoted may only be the tip of the iceberg. add voyeur very s estimate we have had to slow down the pace of hiring. our business is growing more than 40% a year. you you remember a little while ago we played a comment from harry reid that says most of these kind of negative stories about the affordable care act are not true. in the world i come from, mike, leaders are always alert to the unintended negative consequences of decisions. and when they get it wrong, they fix it and i guess i
that s all vladimir putin needs to hear. linchpin of democracy in europe is ukraine. look to chechnya and lack of involvement in chechnya how we may respond to involvement in crimea region. stern words but not necessarily probably ringing hollow this morning. let s switch topics to obamacare. harry reid had to say earlier this week about all negative comments about obamacare, well, those stories are a lot of them are made up. a lot are doubling down midterm this election year, here is a little bit of reaction to harry reid s comments about obamacare and the stories being not accurate. here first is what harry had to say. despite all that good news, there is plenty of horror stories being told. all of them are untrue, but they are being told all over america. in addition, the parade of horrible stories trotted out by the haters of this