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Die. >> how does private industry -- the one thing that makes me not nervous about this, wont insurance companies fight back and win? i mean -- >> because they want customers. >> romney want to give full reign back to private companies. were at the disposal of whatever the insurance companies want to do. if i have a preexisting condition -- my father is a prime example of this. he has a disease there is no cure for, and if he were to go to, you know, get health insurance, he wouldnt be served. i...

Care through these temporary risk pools and those risk pools actually got started 90 days after the plan was enacted. >> this is a perfect example, also, because that is a great example of a concrete, deliveerable from the law, but its also, its absolutely a moral requirement that our country have a social contract that produces that kind of result, but it doesnt necessarily result in some massive, tangible political benefit because that is a small subsection of the population. sam sph. >> id li...

Rules, norms, standards, whatever you want to call them and when theyre not enough and theyre never always enough, then we want to police and the courts to come in and play back-up. what weve especially been doing in these neighborhoods, weve been leading with the cops, the courts, with prisons and it silences those community voices and damages the neighborhoods. >> silences the ones you most need to safe the 5%, the risk pool. >> what you want is all the people who are either what we would thin...

Should you take advantage? >> yeah. the credit card issuing community now that they have fully absorbed the card act in dodd frank are realizing they need to get back to business. one of the ways they get back to business is to focus on consumers other than the fico750 and above which means theyre going deeper and deeper into the risk pool which means theyre mailing pretty aggressive offers to consumers who even 12 to 24 months ago were not having any access to capital or any access to credit ca...

90s. you know how many people are in the federal risk pool set up by this law? 120. that just goes to show you a lot of what was ballyhooed into the reason to need this federal law was already being done at the state level but the left doesnt care they say if the federal government doesnt make you do it it doesnt count. >> chris: im going to -- im going to ask you a different question governor dean and you can do what candidates do, either ask you the question i ask you or respond to haley barbo...

90s. you know how many people are in the federal risk pool set up by this law? 120. that just goes to show you a lot of what was ballyhooed into the reason to need this federal law was already being done at the state level but the left doesnt care they say if the federal government doesnt make you do it it doesnt count. >> chris: im going to -- im going to ask you a different question governor dean and you can do what candidates do, either ask you the question i ask you or respond to haley barbo...

Mid-90s. do you know how many people are in the federal risk pool set up by this law? 120. that just goes to show you a lot of what was badly hooed into a reason to need the federal law was already done at the state left but the left doesnt care. they say if the federal government doesnt make you do it, it doesnt count. >> i will ask you a different question, governor dean. you can do what candidates do, you can either answer the question i asked you or respond to haley barber. i want to turn to...

90s. you know how many people are in the federal risk pool set up by this law? 120. that just goes to show you a lot of what was ballyhooed into the reason to need this federal law was already being done at the state level but the left doesnt care they say if the federal government doesnt make you do it it doesnt count. >> chris: im going to -- im going to ask you a different question governor dean and you can do what candidates do, either ask you the question i ask you or respond to haley barbo...

Because they had chronic disease and they could be put into a risk pool. people didnt know that. they didnt understand how to access that. its very complicated. and the public doesnt have a way of -- and putting it up on the internet. >> let me say a few things about the system that were trying to move to. the problems in the united states are that we pay more than any other country. and our people are sicker and we pay a lot more. one of the things that happens is we have a fee for service syst...

Sicker are more likely to use health care services, more likely to buy coverage and they are going to have a risk pool of people that are pretty expens e expensive. so i think the whole thing makes them extremely nervous and rightfully so. let me add one thing. its not like this is all economic theory or just the ideas of policymakers. we tried plenty of exchanges and insurance marketplaces that are voluntary, that allow small businesses or individuals to come in without a mandate. they all coll...