we look at that. we look at some of the medicaid issues, we are trying to work with our more moderate members on that. and as we look at this, what we have to do is the cbo score recently talked about loriwe lo premiums by 10% the next ten years. those premiums actually go up. for me, and the people that i serve, i ve made a commitment, i m not going to take one program that is not working well and replace it with another one that potentially won t work well. we have got to do better on placeme replacement side of that. you know there are more than 500,000 people in the state of north carolina who enjoy health care coverage because of the affordable care act, who got it on the exchanges there. right. can you tell them affirmatively that they will all be taken care of under the new republican plan? you know, i can tell you that what we are doing right now is with those, i was on the phone with our insurance commissioner in north carolina looking at this plan and looking where we
i am going to hang with you and you can hang with me until the president comes out. the democrats, president, look at the language and say hey, you know what, we are creating a divide and many people are not happy with this because of that. and they have got a bunch of republican senators up in red states for reelection. four of those incumbents were in states that mid-romney won. the language is really important here. when you talk about opportunity it s something republicans and democrats clearly agree on. when you talk about income and equality, not that it doesn t exist, but when you talk about it, it has a connotation of pitting one group against the other. that s something that won t work well, particularly in red states. the president when he does announcements like this, he and other presidents who made
this is always the case. it s always the big companies that are able to figure out ways around laws and basically gain the system while everybody else gets screwed. by the way, it would be nice if they exempted everybody. there are some little companies on here of there s a boat company with a couple of employees. you look at that and say, jonathan, what kind of a law is that? what kind of a law is it? talk about corporate cronyism where they pass law and six months after you ve got a list of 100 plus companies who don t have to abide by the law? the law is supposed to protect your individual rights not force you to pay for someone else. julian, what do you think about that? look. you can keep complaining about it. you can look for the fly in the ointment in all of these things. in the statute there were these provisions for temporary waivers. it doesn t mean overall that the health care bill won t work well. julian, it s not this law was supposed to be