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Is that how its going to work on the churn out of the insurance part of it? >> this is what you get when you have a system that gives you one health care system for the poor and another one for everyone else, at least everyone else who can afford insurance. >> but there are two systems for the working poor because you have that subsidized component right above the medicaid income thresholds. youre still dealing with working poor people at the margins whose incomes shift a lot. >> yeah. and to be...

End of this thing with the subsidies. people will be getting private insurance for some number of weeks, months, and then they will become eligible for medicaid and churn downward into the 34ed cade system. is that how its going to work on the churn out of the insurance part of it? >> this is what you get when you have a system that gives you one health care system for the poor and another one for everyone else, at least everyone else who can afford insurance. >> but there are two systems for th...

Involved in any of these subsidy issues involving our health insurance or any of that. and so weve tacken something complicated and then made it much, much more complicated for the working poor. >> yes. absolutely. and whats really bad about that situation is when people at that level lose their coverage or are in and out of coverage there are major consequences. some of them dont seek treatment. some of them arent followed consistently with one doctor or one health care network. and so they jus...

Working poor we see demonstrating on the streets of manhattan for something more than 7.25 or 7.50 an hour. >> we see nancy pelosi, we watch harry reid yesterday say, if you put this money in the hands of people who are unemployed, it helps the economy because they go shopping. they put gas in their car, do whatever to pay their bills. >> how does giving a middle cadillac execsive $1,000 a month help the economy if its paid for by taxing the working poor? youre just taking money out of one hand ...

Made against extending unemployment benefits. it sounds heartless to make them sometimes. >> harry reid said if you put it into the hands of unemployed it helps the economy. how does giving a middle class executive a thousand there help the economy by taxing the working poor? one person spends it but another person in need doesnt have it. >> there is only one republican on record in the senate as supporting the extension of unemployment benefits. and that is dean heller. he is from the state of ...

Important than my pocketbook. >> the interesting balance act, i watched, mark pryoror, up for re-election, this year, 2014, up for re-election this year and -- arkansas is one of the states where democrats it is a red trending state with -- democratic roots where they -- lot of working poor in arkansas, putting minimum wage on the ballot in arkansas in 2014. mark pryor put the position im against raising the federal minimum wage. this is a washington power grab. within the state of arkansas, im ...

This before the years over. does the tea party want to roll back the safety net? if obamacare health care is wrong as an approach, let me go to joan. do they want to roll back medicare and get rid of that? how far do they want to go back? they want all that stuff. they love medicare. seniors love medicare. >> youre right. their older, white, senior base which is their base, they love that stuff. but they dont think about it as something the government is doing for them. its something theyve take...

Itself is the loser and to mary annes point, the people who have lost coverage, dont feel like they are bumps or glitches. this is a very serious problem for them and theyre scared about what is going to happen to their families. when the part of the exemption today, this is a hardship exemption for people who lost their insurance. the hardship, if you read between the lines is obamacare. thats a bad message for the white house to be sending but it is coming from them. this is real thing. martha...

The white house to see. >> theres a conflict on the right, hard right, nasty right. if you make fun of people for being unemployed or underemployed help them make more money. your against the working poor. are they bad guys or good guys? treat them like good guys. you cant make enemies of the working poor and say we dont like the bums or those with fancy fingernails or help the people that are trying to work and you got to take sides with the worker bees. you may not have a great education but y...

Based on in the classroom. you want to make sure all kids are working together. i think the basic job of a child is to learn. that gets them to the next level. i like jack kingston he is rational. >> whos he playing to here? >> i think he was just trying to have a deeper conversation. >> whyd he bring it up? >> because he probably talked to the department of agriculture vilsack about this. and the idea is not a bad one wanting kids to work because you learn valuable lessons when you work. its an...