book, suggests, into tribal jump. if he s for it, we re against it. this is a plan and the hallmark of it is a set of principles that chuck grassley and orrin hatch, among others, embraced in 1994, all the way up until 2009, when they all of a sudden became socialism. and, of course, this great concern can about the 3 to 6 million people who have lost their plans and may or may not have to pay more doesn t have any level of concern for the 40 million who don t have insurance, or the people in the various states who aren t going to be able to get medicaid. so i m very skeptical that we re looking for fixes here. and i have to say that if we take the long view, martin, you know, three or six months from,000, this may be different. i don t know how deep-seated the problems are in healthcare.gov. but what i do know is that insurance companies have every reason to make this plan work. if it doesn t, they ve got huge problems. so they re going to work with the president. and whatever you do
conservative intellectuals like ramesh putting a plan out that would put a heavy tax on gold-plated health insurance plans. we saw the blowback against that before. and in effect, start to wean people off their employer provided insurance. if you think there s an uproar when you have six or eight or ten million people who are suddenly thrown into turmoil because of the individual health insurance market, wait until you get 150 million people telling them their lives will be turned upside down. final question to you, dana. what do you make of mr. ryan s re emergence over the weekend? it s very clear he is now officially a socialist, right? i think he wants to stay relevant. but as soon as he puts out the plan that he s been threatening to do for a long time, when you see the details of that, then there is an alternative and there is something for this president to campaign against. there certainly is. dana milbank, norm orenstein, gentlemen thank you so much, both of you. coming
around in there. we took a walk back a while ago. there is all kinds of hazards as you might imagine. and the area is still very unstable. the authorities were trying to put together a plan to try and escort people back into these communities. at this point, it s unclear when that s going to gather some momentum. there are a lot of people who want to get back, but it s a difficult thing. at this point, in this community alone, some oh 15,000 people, there are about 500 homes destroyed, and there are about 200 families who are homeless. that s a that s sort of a snapshot of one community. so it gives you an idea of that multiplied in the seven counties where there s also been a disaster declared. the governor was here earlier, touring with state officials. he was asking for people to come together to support neighbors, to show resolve, show compassion. because there are so many people here who need just about everything now. and this is, of course, a very difficult time of year. the t
are? there is certainly some glee here, yes. yeah. professor, paul ryan may have his eyes on the next presidential contest. but he spoke a little bit about the last one this weekend, as well. take a listen to what he said. as i look back at the campaign, i think one of the problems that mitt and i had, we were arguing against big government, in theory. here s the difference now. we ve got big government in practice. professor peterson, your reaction to i told you so from paul ryan. well, first, i agree with irin, it seems absurd for anybody to try out these particular talking points. one, because this is essentially a republican plan. remember those of us who were progressives really were pushing for single-payer which would alleviate a lot of the challenges. it s also absurd because when you look at the problems, it s a failure of leadership on the part of republican legislators, republican governors, to implement state exchanges on
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