Position. I want synchro nicety in government. Ken cuccinelli is not supportive of our president s agenda. Im scared to death of what obama care is doing to virginia virginians. Nobody likes a cry baby. Everything theyre talking about, its about undoing the progress. Grind progress to an absolute halt. Its about undoing the progress that the vast majority of the American People think was progress. Now, we didnt get universal health care, we didnt get the public option. But we got some good things. We moved forward. It is the working mans friend, and god bless him. Im ready for round two im ready for round two. The whole nation is looking at this race. Thats not hyperbole. The whole country is waiting for your choice. Goodbye stranger its been nice hope you find your paradise good to have you with us tonight, folks. Thanks for watching. Lets talk about virginia. Its womens rights, its voting rights, its health care. In fact, cuccinelli says this is a referendum on obama care. Really . And he is scared about obama care. Of course, the state opted out of it, so its the federal exchange that scares the hell out of him. How about these numbers, 7. 8 Million People live in the state of virginia, over 1 million dont have insurance, roughly 14 of the population. And Ken Cuccinelli is afraid that the 14 percenters, they might get helped . Oh, yes, were keeping a close eye on virginia. This race could really be a big set back for the tea party. I mean, when marco rubio goes to stump for this guy and says that the country is watching you, ill take those odds. The latest poll shows democrat Terry Mcauliffe beating fringe republican candidate, Ken Cuccinelli, by six points. The polls, of course, are going to be open until 7 00 tonight, eastern time. Get out and vote. Cuccinelli has been a vocal opponent of obama care, and he has made it clear he will kick and scream every step of the way to stop virginians from getting health care. His opponent, Terry Mcauliffe, sees the world differently, no doubt. He will embrace the Affordable Care act. Ken cuccinelli has made this an election a referendum on obama care. Just listen to the rhetoric cuccinellis campaign pits out on the campaign trail. Tomorrow in virginia is a referendum on obama care. I was the first attorney general to sue on obama care. It took about 30, 35 minutes. After the president signed the bill. That Health Care Law will only get worse. This race, its a very clear choice between a strong supporter of it and the first attorney general in america who stood up against it. Ken cuccinelli was the first attorney general to sue over obama care. We are seeing before our eyes the destruction that this program is reaping on liberty itself, on our health care, on our economy, on families, and its all across the country. Theres competition, theres choice, theres lives being saved, and costs are being reduced. And theyre against it. If cuccinelli loses, its a clear sign that the voters want obama care . His referendum on obama care will backfire and it will be a big gift to the democrats in 2014. The last thing republicans want is for virginia to look Something Like kentucky. When i was in kentucky on monday, visiting the pulse center for the state health exchange, i saw a very organized machine, as we reported last night. Now its over 33,000 people who have signed up. The state is expecting half of the 640,000 people in the state of kentucky who do not have Health Insurance to sign up before the 1st of the year. Who could be against that . This is the way obama care was supposed to work. Kerry ban ahan is the executive director of kentuckys Health Insurance exchange. She told me Community Outreach is key to having a successful exchange. Youve been to every county in the state. How important has that been . You know, thats one of the important things our office has done, is to go out and do outreach and education. Speaking engagements. We have 11 this week to get the word out about connect and advise people what the requirements are. Weve had public forums. We have connectors in different areas of the state who also are responsible for education. As well as enrolling folks. What are the consumers saying . I mean, they dont care about the politics of it. What are they what are they saying . Whats the reaction . You know, its interesting, because when we have attended health fairs and Community Events and baseball games, we dont hear about the politics. The main concern is folks are interested in information. They know someone that doesnt have insurance. Their son or daughter doesnt have insurance. So theyre just thirsty for information on how to apply, and what the qualifications are. So wheres the pushback . Wheres the march . Why is it that every time Ken Cuccinelli in virginia talks about health care, only about 100 people show up . I mean, if every state adopted the kentucky model, we wouldnt be hearing all this negative stuff and problems with obama care. 27 states, including virginia, have opted out of creating exchanges, causing problems, obviously, for the federal government to set up the federal exchange. They didnt expect it. The good news is, theyre working out the kinks. More testimony came today in the senate hearing, and Obama Administration officials saying they are fixing the problems. We are now able to process nearly 17,000 registrants per hour, or five per second, with almost no errors. We have updated the site several times since october 1, fixing bugs and improving the healthcare. Gov experience. Now, she came to capitol hill today and gave some numbers. I love numbers. I love absolutes. I love facts, unlike hannity. If republican governors would have actually governed and set up state exchanges, obviously the law would be working a heck of a lot better. The architects of obama care werent expecting this massive pushback from republican politicians and obstruction. They might have planned differently if they knew this was coming. This is why i think weve got to be talking about round 2 on the democratic side. Round 2 of health care, and lets revisit the public option. So if marco rubio wants to show up in virginia and if Ken Cuccinelli wants to embrace all these obstructionists, its all crystal clear, isnt it . These people do not want those who do not have insurance to get it. Meanwhile, a new report out today shows 17 Million People will qualify for subsidies under obama care. This is what not is not being reported. If you earned 46,000 a year or less, you would qualify for tax credits to reduce the costs of monthly premiums. Thats good news. And if you earn 29,000 a year or less, and theres a lot of americans that are there, well explain that later in this broadcast, about just what 29 grand is to the working folk of america in this country, you can get additional subsidies to cover outofpocket costs like copays. These are the details that, well, fox just isnt talking about. And if youre wondering how many people in this country make about 29,000 a year, stick around. Weve got some staggering numbers for you on that a little bit later on. Get your cell phones out. I want to know what you think. Tonights question. Will red state governors pay a political price for not implementing obama care . Text a for yes, text b for no to 67622, you can always go to our blog at ed. Msnbc. Com and leave a comment there, especially about virginia. And, of course, well bring results later on in the show. For more on this, i want to bring in the senator from iowa, tom harken, who was on the ground floor of the Affordable Care act. He quarterbacked this thing through committee. Senator, good to have you with us tonight. Always good to be with you, ed, thanks. Were you expecting this level of pushback from the red states . I mean, when obama care the Affordable Care act was being put together, was there conversation in committee that, you know what, were going to run into this obstruction, a lot of states arent going to take it and were going to have to fix this . Ed, im really glad you brought oh this up. Because when we were debating this way back when, and trying to figure out how to do all this, a lot of us on the liberal side said, well, okay, well give something to the states, well let the states set up their own exchanges. Many conservatives wanted to do that. So we made that agreement. We thought that would be a good idea. So we put it out there. Lo and behold, all these republican governors get elected in 2010 and republican legislatur legislatures. And they dump it all on the federal government. We never expected that. Had we known that from the beginning, the architecture of setting up the exchanges would have been a lot different. But then they dumped it in our laps. If you look im glad you went to kentucky, because kentucky, washington, colorado, rhode island, even the district of columbia, where they have set up state exchanges, theyre working just fine. And now we heard today from marlin tavenner, theyre fixing this problem. Its a mechanical problem. There is nothing wrong with the Affordable Care act. There is nothing wrong with obama care. We have a problem, yes. And im upset about it, just as everyone else is. But its being fixed. Its a mechanical problem and it will be fixed by the end of this month. But being able to process 17,000 people a minute is a hard number. This is a hard number, so when you say its being improved, i mean, we have something to go on there. This is testimony in a senate committee. If you could go back, if you could have crafted this differently to avoid all this obstruction, would we be so much further along that it wouldnt even be a political issue . Well, ed, you said it earlier. We need a public option out there. We needed a public option in this program. I fought hard for it. But we didnt get it. And probably from the very beginning, we should have just set it up as a federal architecture, as a national architecture, set it up that way. But we thought states wanted to do this. And quite frankly, it was the states, the republican governors, and its interesting, ed. They all campaigned, didnt they, on states rights . Sure, they did. Yeah. But then when it came to this, oh, no, they dont want it. They want to dump it on to the federal government. Clearly yesterday from our report, from the sources on the ground in kentucky, its a job creator. More people are getting insurance than ever before in the state of kentucky. Such is the case with the states you mentioned. And Senate Minority leader, Mitch Mcconnell, responded to the success of obama care in his home state of kentucky today. He said, quote, 85 of the people who have signed up in kentucky have signed up for medicaid. Thats free health care. If you want to give out free health care, youre going to have a lot of interests, just like free anything else. So i know theres been a great effort on the part of the administration, and the governor of kentucky, to paint a pretty picture. Well, let me show you the picture that Mitch Mcconnell paints. He is in favor of corporations not paying their fair share. Hes okay with one in four corporations in this country not paying any tax. Hes in favor of allowing Oil Companies who are making record profits to get away with taxpayer it subsidies. So this still is a matter of priorities. Is Mitch Mcconnell making the case to the people of kentucky that the people who have signed up with the preexisting conditions and over the 33,000 people who were going to get health care and more so of the 640,000 that dont have it, is he saying they dont deserve it, because theyre not some kind of special american that doesnt qualify, the wealthy . Their pushback, senator, i guess my question is, are they running out of material . They are running out. And now it has become, they want i liked what was said this morning by senator warren. In our hearing with ms. Tavenner. She said, really, what were talking about is changing a value system. The old value system was what the republicans want. Where the Insurance Companies could cut you off, if you had a preexisting condition, they wouldnt cover you. Where your only recourse if you were poor was to go to the emergency room. Thats the old value system. The newel value system, what were saying, ed, is every person in america will be covered with Health Insurance, that they cant be taken away, no matter what preexisting conditions you have. And you can get Preventive Services up front, so you dont have to wait to go to the emergency room. Thats the new value system. And im telling you, the American People want this new value system in health care. Senator, you come from iowa, middle of the country, a rural state. Farming is kind of a big deal in your backyard. I mean, theres a lot of Small Farmers out there that are going to be able to get some tax credits, and some help when it comes to obama care, or is that too pretty a picture for Mitch Mcconnell . Im telling you, ed, the farmers and the Small Businesses in iowa are going to have the kind of Health Care Coverage that they have never been able to get or afford in the past. Yes, they might have been able to afford to get some policy, but it didnt cover anything. And there was a lot of policies out there that were, quite frankly crappy. Junk. Junk policies. Well now, no more of those junk policies. People will have good, solid policies, and if theyre lowincome, theyll get a subsidy. You said that Mitch Mcconnell said most of these people signing up in kentucky were from medicaid. If thats the case, hes got a lot of poor people in that state. Because you and i both know, ed, youve got to fall down into a poverty area before you can qualify for medicaid. Is exactly right. And i also find it very interesting that Governor Beshear said that over 400 businesses, Small Businesses in kentucky, have looked into the exchange and are making decisions on it, but i didnt hear Mitch Mcconnell put out any number about Small Businesses whatsoever. The bottom line here is, and what is being underreported, is Rural America in Rural Development is going to explode in a big way for the positive, because of the Affordable Care act. Thats whats not i think being i think thats being overshad overshadowed. I also think, ed, youre going to see a lot more entrepreneurs starting Small Businesses, and getting into business, because now theyll have health care and Health Care Coverage for the workers, which they couldnt have before. Senator tom harken, great to have you with us tonight. Thank you, sir. Appreciate your time. Thanks, ed. Remember to answer tonights question there at the bottom of the screen. Share your thoughts with us on twitter at ed show and on facebook. And i think im going to have to tweet out, senator mcconnell, can you comment on the 400 businesses in your state that are going to be signing up for connect . Coming up, preacher cruz can see russia from his pulpit. Teds dad is at it again, this time with some bizarre soviet scare tactics. Plus, rocky politics. How progressives are fighting a war of northern aggression at the polls tonight. Stay with us. 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