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Arizona? prices will, premiums will go up for people on obamacare by more than 100%. and that's a state she could potentially win. look at that, 116% increase in obamacare premiums in arizona. >> i think it demonstrates that there are fixes that need to be made to obamacare. one of the frustrations is you have one party devoted to the repeal of the affordable care act, which they will acknowledge isn't going anywhere. but until they're willing to work with us to fix some of the elements, you're going to continue to see problems. and i'm hoping that when we have a new congress and it will be a ...

Up more in the absence of the law which i know you maintain helps control costs. some of it is controversial. we have had dr. siegel talking about how he believes your emphasis on value from the physicians as opposed to volume leads to physicians rejecting patients who would be high maintenance because they get rewarded for outcome and value. i see your point about the costs. >> oh, yeah. >> let me ask you this. you were there. it's so hard to find people who were actually there when the law was debated and shaped and so on. >> mm-hmm. >> i want to you about the most continroversial thing. was...

Kick it down the road. >> it's hard not to be cynical went we've seen the can kicked down the road so many times. >> we will continue to kick this can down the road with real harmful effects for the american populace. >> the bill the president expects to sign reopens the government until january 15th, extends the debt ceiling to february 15th. snorks how concerning is that to you? what needs to happen now? >> well, the only thing that's really been accomplished they have a conference committee to try to be able to come up with a budget to determine funding levels for fiscal '14 and hopefully b...

Imhoff for his audacity to intervene in this awful process? >> i'm going to leave that one to more creative minds than mine, dylan, but i will say this. the pentagon uses $19 billion of energy every year. they're trying to invest in renewable sources and they're doing it for three reasons. they want to make our forces stronger, they want to help control costs, and they want to deny our enemies around the world, many of whom are oil-producing nations that we're sending money to every day, they want to deny those countries the resources they need to come after our men and women. i was with an ai...

Yew would have to could in order to support the broccoli mandate or whatever but you don't have to do when it comes to individual mandate which is trying to address the $43 billion yearly that are passed on from the uninsured from those of us that do have health insurance. >> shannon: i want to make sure that we get to the issue that your organization filed a brief on this week which is the issue of severability. if the court would find that the mandate is not legitimate, it is unconstitutional and it falls, can the rest of the law you survive without it. >> absolutely not. congress in tended ...