well, i think it means that our country as we know it would be completely and fundamentally changed. for example, the person that was on before talked about medicare. essentially what mr. ryan is proposing doing that the republicans have embraced and mitt romney has also embraced would completely revise medicare into a voucher. but what happens when you run out of money? what happens if you have a major disease? if you eliminate health care reform and give somebody a check, what s going to happen if they have a pre-existing condition? how are they going to be able to find medical coverage? if you just give a state a block grant, a definite amount, what happens when we have a fiscal crisis and unemployment increases and the state runs out of money? essentially, you would have a divide in our country that we have never seen before. and i think one of the fundamental values of our nation is fairness. and if you look at the heart of
they own their own policy and reward people for taking care of themselves. that will fix the health care system. not a government take over. each time the government runs health care program, three things happen: they overpromise; they run out of money; they rash on care. this is a disaster that should be replaced. the federal government should do with medicaid, give each state a block grant and let us fix our own medicaid program and come up with each of our own plans. neil: the response to that as i am sure you are aware you have 50 different plans. guest: and that is, each state is supposed to be a laboratory. we will figure out which state does it the best. if they give us a block grant and let us fix medicaid how we want, we can do it the right way and we can afford i. but the health care bill passed will be a disaster around to country and in our state with a lot of medicare recipients, they