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Mobility? he said essentially the subsidies could provide a disincentive to upward mobility because it will cause people to worker hours or work not as as hard in those hours. in other words the president talks about income inequality but here we have the cbo director saying that this could be a disincentive to upward mobility. in other words, maybe i dont want to work harder in that position or to take that promotion because of the subsidies and the disincentives that are created under the obam...

Lose their health insurance. >> if you want individuals to own their health insurance policy, the way to do that is to open up access to the health insurance market and do across state line of health insurance. allow portability so people can take their policies with them wherever they want to go. and get rid of the government mandates. thats the free market solution. i have had that legislation for six years. i hope well pass it soon. secondly it puts the government in control of healthcare. fo...

>> the defund? >> no, no, i dont know what youre going to do about it, im saying, what is ted cruise, what is he going to say? >> theres one missing component, everybody has their feelings about obama now set in concrete, what is the vision? in other words, i love newt gingrich contract with america, what five big things are you going to do to get people off of food stamps. create jobs, create energy independence. i think that is key, a positive agenda. real quick. >> republicans have to talk ab...

Influence labor productivity indirectly by making it easier for some employees to obtain health insurance outside the workplace and thereby prompting those workers to take jobs that better match their skills, regardless of whether those jobs offered employment will have based insurance." wont these new workers now be free to be productive in some other place of the economy? and is it a bad thing to not be attached to your job for insurance purposes only? >> craig, i am delighted to hear you supp...

Or are we going to allow individuals more choice and portability to fit the 21st century work force? >> job lock. the key question, paul ryan, a man who is very, very popular in his party. but reality bites. instead of acknowledging that his key question had been answered by the presidents health care plan, he pivoted to his new favorite subject, poverty. >> these changes, they disproportionately effect low-wage workers. washington is making the poverty trap much worse. in inducing a person not ...

Affordable care act. and the democrats lost their majority in the house in 2010 because of the affordable care act. im advising my clients run on the affordable care act and hope your opponent does too. >> but im confused. am i as your candidate, am i arguing for repeal, get rid of the whole thing or am i saying there are elements here that we should be reforming? >> well, theres two parts. you cant get to the nice elements people like which is portability, which is so-called affordability but i...

Cover folks with preexisting conditions. maybe you dont put together an actual bill that the democrats can attack. but you lay out principles like portability, affordability and addressing people with preexisting conditions. jamie: how do you feel about that? a bipartisan reevaluation to couple with something that is more user consumer friendly and also helps doctors as well as patients? >> i couldnt agree more. guy is exactly right. if the republican party goes in the direction guy is talking a...

And that that idea that you can come out of school, get a job, stick with the job for the next 30 years, that isnt what american work looks like anymore. if it doesnt, does that mean then women will not have the opportunities to climb into leadership. >> there is a school of thought, in fact, that more than the one career at one company mold of, say, our grandparents generation, that it is going to be a gig economy. youre going to kind of create your own gigs along the way. which is why things l...

Concern? say its only 10 million. >> this was a red herring. the president made specific promises. thats whats at issue here. >> he did. you cant get away from that. we did have ideas. they were shot down. health savings accounts. >> i have no problem with that. by the way, they didnt get shot down. >> portability between states. changing laws between employer and privately own d plans which is a big deal. >> can we talk about the states? i want to go off on another area. we have debated this to...

Concern? say its only 10 million. >> this was a red herring. the president made specific promises. thats whats at issue here. >> he did. you cant get away from that. we did have ideas. they were shot down. health savings accounts. >> i have no problem with that. by the way, they didnt get shot down. >> portability between states. changing laws between employer and privately own d plans which is a big deal. >> can we talk about the states? i want to go off on another area. we have debated this to...