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Are? >> there is certainly some glee here, yes. >> yeah. professor, paul ryan may have his eyes on the next presidential contest. but he spoke a little bit about the last one this weekend, as well. take a listen to what he said. >> as i look back at the campaign, i think one of the problems that mitt and i had, we were arguing against big government, in theory. heres the difference now. weve got big government in practice. >> professor peterson, your reaction to i told you so from paul ryan. >> ...

Rural areas and in a lost rural areas, these, health insurance, health insurers, theyre usually only a couple of them. from what i am hearing, there isnt a whole lot of competition to drive down the rates for obamacare. >> in southeast georgia, rural peanut and cotton country in our state. , there are only two providers on website. number one. rates doubled and some cases gone up 250%. that is in rural georgia and that is happening all over rural america. jon: so what does the secretary have to ...

Work. what does that mean? where will it take us in march? >> contrary to what the president said today, this is not a good deal for most americans. it increases premiums for men 99%, doubles them. increases them for women on average 62%. young people are hit the hardest. as you pointed out those are the people they want to sign up. a young man is not going to siep up for a plan with a $3,000 or $5,000 deductible. hes not ever going to get anything back from that plan. >> thats the problem. many...

Together and go to single payer health care. like the system in england. single payer is -- imagine medicare for everyone in the whole country. senator reid wasnt the first to bring it up. watch. >> im all for a single-payer system. eventually. >> if i were starting a system from scratch i think the idea of moving toward a single-payer system could very well make sense. >> i have support ed signs in te street, advocacy and legislature, i have supported single-payer for longer than in of you have...

The south, and that is not going to win national elections ever again. >> jim, whats your response to that. >> well, im going to put aside her comments about hating women, minorities. i think its absolutely ridiculous, and not hating poor people. let me focus on the tea party from their perspective. the folks at tea party they talked to and i read what theyre saying, i think they understood, there were some who didnt, that defaulting would be a bad thing. but i think, a, they didnt believe that ...

Whether or not you have the ability to get some kind of a waiver from the obamacare fees from the government. this is the same irs who is handing over private information to government and other officials who shouldnt be getting it. >> no, that is exactly right. you can make make argument, president obama, nancy pelosi, senator reid, senator tom harken, they have all been on the record saying that this obamacare is just a waystation on the way to single-payer. so a cynic might say, this is all d...

That. but what they are really worried about, and i think too worried. and im worried, but theyre way more worried than i am, one, the debt problem. were about to go into a debt problem in the next year or two. i dont think thats the case. and i think obama care is going to lead to a socialist takeover, a single-payer -- theyre very worried about that. so from their perspective, these are both existential threats to the united states, and listen, and breaching the debt ceiling, small potatoes co...

The folks at tea party they talked to and i read what theyre saying, i think they understood, there were some who didnt, that defaulting would be a bad thing. but i think, a, they didnt believe that we would actually default, that treasury could come up with the money, that they could prioritize payments. my bigger complaint is that they didnt think the huge budget cuts that would have to happen if we didnt raise the debt ceiling. that those would be just fine. so they werent worried about that....

Factor follow up seeing many tonight much the fisher house stepped up to help those who were denied benefits because of the government shutdown. this has not been a smooth experience for the fisher house. here now the chairman of that organization ken fisher. so, i want to advance the story here. all right? so last week the president signs the law that opens up the treasury to pay the benefits $100,000 to each family of kia in afghanistan at this point. your organization then does what? >> well,...

Factor follow up seeing many tonight much the fisher house stepped up to help those who were denied benefits because of the government shutdown. this has not been a smooth experience for the fisher house. here now the chairman of that organization ken fisher. so, i want to advance the story here. all right? so last week the president signs the law that opens up the treasury to pay the benefits $100,000 to each family of kia in afghanistan at this point. your organization then does what? >> well,...