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On the health care legislation he campaigned against. and this will come back to bite 'em in the butt. >> greta: one aspect, the student loan program. a lot of americans wonder what do student loans have to do with health care? >> i'm wondering that too. the price tag of this bill is over a trillion dollars. they are raising taxes -- >> greta: they say it is 940 billion. >> when you add in interest and everythings it is going to be well over a trillion. they cut medicare 500 billion dollars. not to save medicare but take money out, seniors, to pay for the uninsureed. raised taxes by 600 billio...

Put in place. $406 billion in new taxes, $507 billion in cuts to medicare. you've got this, what is it, $940 billion cbo number, which even they say it's not the real number because there are other features of this when they kick in will jump the cost over $2 trillion so this is the predicate that has been laid for the health care debate that concerns people. i think that rhetoric is reflective of how people feel, and the concern that they have, and i think it's important for the administration and the leadership on the hill to understand that. >> governor, at what cost will victory abchieved?...

Billion in cuts to medicare. you've got this, what is it, $940 billion cbo number, which even they say it's not the real number because there are other features of this when they kick in will jump the cost over $2 trillion so this is the predicate that has been laid for the health care debate that concerns people. i think that rhetoric is reflective of how people feel, and the concern that they have, and i think it's important for the administration and the leadership on the hill to understand that. >> governor, at what cost will victory abchieved? >> david, this is going to be great for democ...

This is the bill right here. as you can see, it is very large. we are going to boil it down for you, basically, tell you some of the key points here. first off, this would require you to get health insurance. for employers who don't provide it, they would be penalized for not providing it with an exception for small businesses that can't afford it. also, in part, to cover the 32 million more americans that this package will cover, it expands the medicaid rules to cover some of those americans. it says to insurance companies, you cannot deny coverage on the basis of pry basis of pre-existing co...

Current number of lawmakers in congress, there were about 20 democrats who hadn't voted and once they reached 216 it was interesting to watch how the remaining 20 who had not voted rushed to vote against the rule and may be an indicator there were still some centrists and conservative democrats with either fiscal or social objections to the legislation, who were holding out and whether they might have an option to vote against it and we don't know if that happened, but it is potentially indicative andy a sign of democrats reached the rules passage with more than 216 votes can do the same on th...