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Did not pan out with reality. they were wildly off with some of the obamacare predictions. that's just a fact. you've written an interesting piece which you talk ab medicade. that is at the heart about whether they can get something done. people want to feel like in some cases it's free money. once you have more and more people on a program that was meant to help the poor and disabled, it's hard to scale those things back once people depend on them. >> yeah. i wrote that i think slewedest thing the designers of obamacare did was to insert into the bill an expansion of medicade to the states fo...

They've got their moderate senators saying your bill does too much to hurt medicade, to pull down medicade spending. so the obama people knew what they were doing when they put that in. they knew once you got committed to entitlements, it's very hard to roll it back. it's going to take some courage by the republicans to explain to people medicade is not just like private medicine. it's lowest common denominator medicine. it's not the best medicine out there. they're trying to reform. it as scott walker is trying to do in wisconsin. >> shannon: also hard to find a provider that will take it. >>...

Rise, the federal government continues to pay a half or more of the share. as a result, medicade costs are crushing the states. they're the second biggest outlay next to k-12 education. one of the things they do to try to control it is to cut back money to providers, say doctors trying to serve the medicade population. when the obamacare provision offered them 100% payment, 13 republican governors took it. and they've been getting a lot of money. ohio has gotten $3.4 billion. arkansas's gotten $1.4 billion. now those republican governors are really loathe to do anything to cut back on medicade...