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Care coverage might have been lost today as a result of the supreme court decision. but one former democratic governor who understands the decision and had to administer medicaid in his state is worried tonight. i m a little nervous about the medicaid ruling. medicaid has insured more people in this bill than anything else. joining me now to analyze the newest provision of the affordable care act as written by the supreme court, ed rendell, the newly appointed director of rhode island s health benefits exchange, a professor at george washington university and the co-host of msnbc s new 3:00 p.m. show the cycle. okay, governor, you re up. this is now optional, this expansion of medicaid. and so in your state of pennsylvania, which was one of the states that went to the ....
Newest provision of the affordable care act as written by the supreme court, ed rendell, the newly appointed director of rhode island s health benefits exchange, a professor at george washington university and the co-host of msnbc s new 3:00 p.m. show the cycle. okay, governor, you re up. this is now optional, this expansion of medicaid. and so in your state of pennsylvania, which was one of the states that went to the supreme court saying we don t want it. that s a state with a the republican governor, a republican legislature would have to spend more on medicaid. what are the odds of those republicans in pennsylvania saying okay, yeah, well, the supreme court ruled in our ....
another highest court in the land has now spoken.ç we will continue to implement this lou. and we ll work together to improve on it where we can. but what we won t do, what the country can t afford to do is refight the political battles of two years ago or go back to the way things were. joining me now for an exclusive interview, maryland congressman steny hoyer. i know you thought you had final passage of this bill two years ago, but it turned out final passage was today when the nine people across the street from you issued their report and they made the medicaid provision optional. left the rest standing. what do you make of their rewrite of the bill? well, essentially the bill is whole. we ll have to look at the medicaid provision and see what might need to be done there, but we re very, very pleased. we thought the bill was constitutional. ....
Penalty provision. the great thing about the supreme court case for the obama administration is they have done virtually no job they have not sold it to the american public at all. the veil of secrecy over the 2,700 page document is beginning to lift. and of course, these provisions are going to take place. it s not just children who can stay or youths who can stay on their parents insurance plan until they re 26. we re talking about major, major changes in american society as far as health care. people are not going to be denied coverage because they have pre-existing conditions. i am of the mind that states are going to opt into that program. that will opt an additional 17 million people on the brink of poverty. families of four making $29,000 a year. they are going to have access to health care. this is a game-changer for american society. richard wolffe, with your book, you ve taken us inside obama decision making up close, including this difficult ....
Investigation on the underlying substance of this issue was superfici superficial, and they shut out witnesses asked to be called who knew about the incident involved, who knew about the so-called fast and furious process. that s not what this is about. this is about politically going after the attorney general for partisan purposes. house democratic whip maryland congressman sten steny hoyer, thanks for jokï me on this historic day in the supreme court and the house of representatives. thank you. coming up, another last word exclusive. the woman whose letter president obama told us about today. she will join me. [ engine turns over ] [ male announcer ] we created the luxury crossover and kept turning the page, this is the next chapter for the rx and lexus. this is the pursuit of perfection. ....