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Favored chris christie by 16 points as opposed to hillary clinton. i think what youre going to see is hillary clinton moving, you know, to the middle. that seems to by where the independent voters are, as you know. so i dont know whether bill clinton was trying to give her political cover or not. i presume hes a really smart guy, and hes always working on behalf of his spouse, but i also think he probably thinks its the right thing to do, if you can do it in a way that doesnt make all the domino...

The pay burden and very possible that there wont be enough money. and as dan henniger said a couple weeks ago the law will collapse under its own weight. >> doctor, the one question that would come up is you would have two tiered plan system then. you you would have those that dont conform to all the government standards and requirements presumably, the substandard plans that would become standard under senator landrieus and people would welcome that so you would have competing allegiances here....

What is this risk? >> we are worried about those people because they are theey a ones who are the sickest, the s ones who need health insurance coverage the most and the ones who may have cancer, leukemia, diabetes, heart problems and they are in our risk pool as they are in many other states, but as we know the health exchanges havent they aree way supposed to work. so at the end of this year, december 31st, we have over 850 oklahoma ans in that risk pool. they are at risk of losing their insur...

Administrative fix cant do it. the law says plans that are out there. march of 2010 those plans are gone. you actually need a law to fix. this. >> wait a second. stop. if had you a plan that the insurance company dumped lets say for the high risk pool that i talked about with governor fallen. the government cant change put back in effect. they cant order insurance company to do that the insurance company is not going to want to voluntarily do that you are not going want to put a plan on the tabl...

People, the healthy people, getting into the risk pool. the in the numbers are not good otherwise we have breakdowns of which states, older people, so these are probably older, sicker people, that have signed up for this. now, where that goes, that goes to higher premiums and employers dropped their coverage and force people on to the exchanges, maybe thats a better deal for people, maybe its not. >> its going to be a different deal. safe to sea its going to be different. what youre used, to don...

Theyre going to see for $70 more or some all. money more, i can get this much better policy and eventually that rational consumer choice will be made. >> the whole premise of the law. premise of the website working having the online exchanges people can shop for competitively priced insurance plans. people being people. they will go for the best deal. ultimate low, i feel like i dont know his words are going how to mean much to anybody. tonight. dont think the right is going to say apology accep...

If this huge, giant, viable risk pool is created, a lot more attractive for insurance companies to get in all over the place and thats when it really works. when insurance companies are fully 100% into this, thats the principle behind this, principle of competition shopping for competitively priced plans. thats when it will work, fully on board. right now seeing insurance companies taking a wait and see approach, not wanting to commit too much to something when they arent sure if the risk pool w...

To the website, drive young people to the website. obviously, that plan has changed, because if youre driven to the website, you are going to be driven to distraction at this point. so what hes trying to do is say to people dont give up on the policy because they understand more than anybody that if you dont get those young people who might be discouraged right now to log on and to sign in eventually, then the whole risk pool is a problem for them, and then the whole paradigm collapses. so they ...

Corporate mandate comes in place then all of a sudden these corporations are going to go, im not insuring these people. and we have daves bridal shop who says were going to move our employees mostly due to part-time because of obamacare. they have shops all across the country. >> does your wife know you were at davids bridal? >> i was trying to find out about their health care. >> theyre not the only corporation who has done this and this is well documented. because bunch of other companies have...

Maybe she regrets doing that pitch i dont know because her agent didnt return the phone call. the paioint is this administratn has been getting celebrities to endorse the policies. peter sueder man studies this kind of stuff. celebs are useful because obama care needs young people to sign up for this to work. turning out young people is crucial to make this law work. thats what the obama administration says. their numbers show in order for this law to really work and be sustainable they need abo...