Calling Obamacare News Today

Were going to repeal and replace obamacare. bill clinton said we have to do it. hes suffering now. all he did was tell the truth. >> welcome back to morni"mornin joe." joining the conversation is kasie hunt and walter isaacson. >> whats bill clinton doing? calling obamacare the craziest thing ever? >> theres a wonderful definition of a gaffe in washington is when someone accidentally tells the truth. obamacare is something we really need in society. we need to expand health care. its a crazy sys...

Glib process about the political process behind health care reform. im noxpert on politics and my tone implied i was which is wrong. in other cases i made mean and insulting comments uncalled for in any context. i sincerely apologize for conjecturing with the tone of expertise and for doing so in such a disparaging fashion. it is never appropriate to make ones self seem more important or smarter by demeaning others. i knew better, i know better, and im embarrassed and im sorry. in addition to ap...

This is not conjecture. is it your purpose today to recant obamacare as a tax? >> it is my purpose today to come forward and elaborate and straighten out interpretation of a series of comments that made and to apologize. >> excellent. lets do that then. lets clarify it. mr. gruber, you made these statements did you not? >> yes, i dont recall exactly -- >> you dont recall. one of them we actually saw on video. do you recall that one? >> yes. >> well, these statements, well enter them for the reco...

January 18th, you said if youre a state and said if you dont set up an exchange, that means your citizens dont get tax credits but your citizens will pay taxes to support the bill. a tax. october 30th, 2012, we just taxed the insurance companies. they pass it on in higher prices. offset tax breaks we get. very clear, you know, and thats when you went on insulted the american voter to the fact they couldnt understand that basic equation. on october 17th, you said this fill was written in tortured...

Darrell issa is never a shy questioner when it comes to these things. he runs the thousands oversight committee. he describes it as obamacare through deception. >> lack of transparency is a huge political advantage age. call it the stupidity of the american voter or whatever, bit was critical to get is passed. >> we just tax insurance companies and they pass it on to the consumers. its a clever exploitation of the basic lack of understanding about it american voter. >> turns out political chicag...

When i was talking about -- >> mr. gruber, do you know what a tax is? bill: we need to take another quick commercial break. were back in moment. >> so you would not deny today in these sames that you madebu that. eliminate odors youve gone noseblind to for up to 30 days with the febreze car vent clip. female passenger: wow. smells good in here. vo: so you and your passengers can breathe happy. because i make the best chicken noodle soup. because i make the best chicken noodle soup. because i mak...

Were said, in the end they may be true. and i want to walk you through some of the statements that you made that were substantive in nature rather than the statements that you made about the american voter. now you said that you did complex microsimulation modeling. it sound like relatively basic model to me. you take from one an give to another. bay i can equation of wealth redistribution and that is called a tax. and you have made many statements about the obamacare plan as being a tax. i want...

Medicaid expansion. if you like your plan you can keep your plan. when trying to pass affordable care obamacare the administration repeatly claimed the laws individual mandate was not a tax. however, months after passage in a brief defending the mandates constitution at, the justice department argued just opposite that it was a tax. one of our three witnesses this morning offered a simple answer to this change in position. >> we wrote it in a tortured way to make sure the cbo did not score the t...

Compared obamacare to terrorism. today we have a little dose of reality for them. facts. today we learned more than 1 million americans signed up for private insurance under the n health care law in january, surpassing expectations, more than 3.3 million signups since october 1. this news comes today as we also learned the rate of uninsured americans is dropping. can you believe it? obamacare is the law of the land. let me look up. the sky isnt falling ♪ ♪ where you think youre gonna go ♪ ...

Obama is leaving? well, rush, the constitution says -- yeah, and constitution also says he cant do what he is doing here. the text of obamacare specifically prohibits what obama is doing. so when you make jokes about obama having to leave office in 2016, why? >> i mean, they are actually floating these things out here, joe. >> look, and then in the next breath they want to impeach him. so they dont think he is going to leave. and then they want to impeach him. let me tell you. to compare what ob...