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States are going to have to comply with the new conditions in order to get new money. they certainly will. >> ask you one other question about the part of it where the supreme court says the mandate as such is unconstitutional but not the penalty what is the teeth then? someone says i'm not going to buy insurance and not going to pay the penalty? >> pay the penalty. theç thing is this. as a practical matter, down the have to buy health insurance if you pay the tax. the admin station believes and insurance companies believe that people will get insurance rather than paying the tax it is the c...

Of reading around all the experts preparing;h#or this da most of what folks were expecting, they would strike down individual mandate but uphold much of the rest but by striking down individual mandate, it would be sort of the thread that allowed the rest of the sweat to unravel. i got to say the notion it was upheld -- and upheld specifically for tat least a plurality under the commerce clause and roberts allowing it to be upheld as part of the taxing power of the u.s. congress is not only good for the -- you know, the president and the admin station and the politics of it. i think it is goo...

>> andrea i know you have a question for pete. >> i was going to follow up, pete, exactly to your point just now. without the economic incentives for the states to expand and we have seen in several cases where people are really underinsured, places like texas, for instance, without those incentives on medicaid and without incentives on the other part of the law, can health care survive intact? i know the admin station will argue that it can, but out in the real world of insurers and consumers, will this become a reality? >> well, here's -- consider that there were 26 states that challenged th...

Doesn't have that power. the court basically send the argument of the critics here who said that those three words in the constitution that congress has the power to, quote, regulate commerce, means that congress can regulate people already involved in commerce but if you don't have insurance, not in commerce, therefore, they can't drag you into the stream of commerce to regulate all the court by a very narrow margin upheld that or at least is there a controlling number of justices who would hold that. that is not a unanimous decision, i would say of the majority. this is a plurality opinion w...

Vetted today in each of the 67 counties throughout the state. >> roy moore has not conceded. is that relevant? >> well, i am sure it's relevant to them and to others but i don't think it's relevant to doug jones today. i think that's something that will get additional attention as time continues to move forward. >> what is your sense of why doug jones won? >> well, i think a lot of people in our state were very discouraged about information from the allegations that were introduces. i think there's a lot of things that are being considered throughout our state and our nation in regard to the a...