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Properly. 31% of physicians once he knew medicaid patients. >> jon: i think i saw a nod of agreement on that. >> i lose money on my medicaid patients, that is true. im not saying to expand medicaid out to cover everybody. but we need to learn from the rest of the world. things i would do -- and i have written about this, i would expand medicare out to the essential benefits. we know everybody needs preventative services. we want kids to get checked, we want people to be screened for their blood ...

that is the only thing they were doing deal i good at. this is far better than obamacare. and more generous than obamacar obamacare. saving medicaid, which is on an unsustainable path and let states spend those dollars. the states will be able to spend the dollars. as a smaller entity, the states will be able to take better care of a person with a bad back, with a bad prognosis. with a problem. id like the federal government to focus on the middle east. to focus on north korea. to focus on th...

dont need it. >> thats how insurance works. >> thats not how it should work. you dont pay for the same for your ferrari insurance that you pay for your toyota. heres how you do it. you add a catastrophic option and save for those with pre-existing conditions, we are not going to let -- that is where the government comes in. heres the big mistake the g.o.p. made. you separate out the medicaid question. medicaid is responsible for 12 million people on these exchanges. this is where the negotiat...

Better preexisting than they had in their plan. and youre going to be protected. well allow the use of pretax dollars to pay premiums. well expand the hsas. well devote substantial resources to fight opioid and other substance abuse. well provide better coverage for low-income americans. by the way, low-income americans under our plan -- and were doing things at this meeting which i think youll be very happy about. because were going to spend some more money to make sure everybody is protected. ...

Everyone is going to die. death, death, death. thats the only thing theyre good at. and this is a great plan. this isnt just a good plan. this is far better than obamacare and more generous than obamacare. saving medicaid, which is on an unsustain -- really unsustainable path, and lets states spend those dollars freely. so the states are going to be able to spend the dollars. and as a smaller entity, the states will be able to take better care of a person with a bad back. with a bad prognosis. w...

Become a goal to look at and i think thats why paul ryan is so well liked in the republican party. he laid out a detailed plan. sure he took -- >> for better or worse. >> he took some shots but he is now enormously respected in the party and beyond the party. i think a candidate who did that would have the ability to combine both the experience side with the issue side and become a nominee. >> you cant go halfway. >> you cant go halfway. i agree. >> i told the story before but in 1996 we were al...

In iowa. >> governor pataki, you look at these numbers and as a candidate you can truly become a puppet to them and try and cater to them but ultimately its going -- youre not hearing from them what you want to hear, which you were talking about last blog. how does romney overcome becoming the candidate by default by choice? what does he need to say? >> i think its pretty easy to do. it goes right back to the numbers chuck was just showing us that issues really matter this year. and i think that...