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This decision will end the patchwork system we currently have, it will end the uncertainty hundreds of thousands same-sex couples face from not knowing if their marriage legitimate in the eyes of one state will remain if they decide to move or even visit another. this ruling will strengthen all of our communities by offering to all loving same-sex couples the dignity of marriage across this great land. in my second inaugural address i said that if we are truly created equal, that surely the love...

On these sensitive issues. i say this because you have written some really powerful strong articles in the daily beast and one we will get into in a little while about robot pilots, if you will. go ahead and weigh in. >> well i think its very -- its a very uneven and patchwork system across europe and across the united states and in other markets. i think that if you rely on self-reporting or peer reporting, thats not going to be very effective and i think that what this incident has shown is ho...

What the va is talking about is a patchwork system where in a given case on a given day if they cant get an appoint they are allowed to go outside the system. that wont work because their entire record is in the va system. our veterans ought to be given the chance of getting all their care in a private system if they choose. bill: you have say the only way you think they will find a way to get out of this big mess is to go this route. do you still think that. >> i dont think the government can r...

Up the federal enrollment. california has had a lot of good statistics. but the average percentage is 15% of eligible people are signing up and that is because of the patchwork system and you have the volunteers working the political network pour his re-election campaign. in idaho, the 5th highest where people 64% p of them hate the affordable care act. if i hate the affordable care act but i need my insurance. maybe i hate tax cuts but im going to take them on my irs form. but then does that tr...

I wish we shared in the same insurance seniors did. but instead we have a patchwork system. we are dealing with privatized tax codes and student loans. >> do you feel there is a clear path forward for you and the people to the left and right and behind you to pay for this obligation? once the baby boomers have passed on there will be another generation that you have to help fund. >> we need to work on balancing short-term spending on investment and long-term spending on entitlements. >> we do ne...

West, their application process could be much faster just because of the vagaries of our patchwork system. its not uniform at all. so people in, say, new york, miami, los angeles, the wait times are longer. theres tremendous backlog, all sorts of hoops. yet if you happen to be in salt lake city or seattle, its much easier. the system is incoherent and inconsistent just geographically if nothing else. >> i want to then just ask to follow up on that, so is our immigration process too hard in the w...

I am a little less forgiving because they did have three years to put up that website. but three times is plenty of time to get the coding right. and what were looking at is a real coding failure. that said, you are seeing a patchwork of health care reform develop in this country, in which some states are buying into the concept of bawl care, places like kentucky, new york, et cetera. and even now in ohio where john kasich announced that he would expand medicaid to poor and lower class ohioans, ...

Midnight there will be two more states that let gay people get married, we will still have a patchwork system in this country where rights are not dolled out equally, but then again, 13 states, thats all we had when we, the united states first became a country. can you do a lot with just 13 states. joining us now is pennsylvania state representative brian simms. representative simms asked to speak on the pennsylvania house floor about the defense of marriage act the day the supreme court shut do...

Laws. seriously, no law broken. they were arrested and charged under a law that was found to be unconstitutional by the supreme court over a decade ago. the sheriff says he will expunge the mens records and waive the fee to do so. councilmembers said they would take a look at such a proposal. but there are already laws in place to protect gay people. you mean like the 10-year-old supreme court rule something that doesnt seem like enough here. it is truly exciting as of midnight there will be two...

And so we do have a very interesting patchwork system right now, where weve got marriage rights in california, weve got marriage rights overall in 12 states and weve got federal marriage rights. but we still have unequal recognition of marriages between same-sex couples and opposite sex couples in 38 other states. its a very untenable situation in practical terms for couples. its also an untenable legal situation. as tom just said. listen, these are legal fights for another day in terms of wheth...