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Between a free society, and big brother, law prohibits you from doing things that are bad, and big brother, the law trying to force you to do thing that political leaders think is good, with things like individual mandate, obamacare crosses that line, trying to force to us do what political elites we think we ought. john: and worst part of obamacare. >> independent payment advisery board, that is a group, of experts that are supposed to control medicare cost, they do this by enageing law, unilaterally without vote of congress, without signature of the president, without even review, by the cou...

Distinctions between brifree society and big brother society in a free society law prohibits you from doing something bad. in big brother society they force you to do things political leaders think is good. obamacare crosses that line to try to force us to do what political elites think we ought to do. >> christina the worst part of obamacare? >> independent payment advisory board or ipab. they are supposed to control medicare costs but the way they do this is bine acting law unilaterally without vote of congress, without signatures of the president without review by the courts. >> you mention...

Some medicare costs. >> lawrence, are you suggesting that the republicans are little bit hypocritical about medicare? >> i'm getting that feeling! >> well, look it, the problem is, everybody knows, out there, 15 years from now, we do have to control medicare costs. we've got to control medicare costs, largely because health care costs, overall, have to be controlled. i mean, they're now 18% of the national budget. in fact, they're 18% of the national economy. and they're going to be about 25% of the national economy. at least the affordable care act, the obama's health care act, does provide t...

and good morning to you. it is wednesday november 16th. only two days until friday. ali velshi has the day off. i'm carol costello along with christine romans. welcome to "american morning." >> first up a severe weather warning right now for the new orleans area. jacqui jeras is in the extreme weather center. >> a rote taiting thunderstorm that could produce a thunderstorm any time. jefferson and including the city of new orleans. probably 15 minutes away. get to your safe place right now this morning. this is in effect until 5:30 local time. a radar indicated tornado that could drop...

Voucher system. if you pay into a private system instead of what we have today. it is radically different. >> talking about a defined contribution plan where you'd have some stake in helping control medicare costs, by the way the only way -- either we put the price control mechanisms in bureaucrats in washington and politicians with artificial cost-cutting or else we put the cost-cutting mechanisms in the hand of people who actually use the government services. so the republican plan trusts people, doctors and patients. the democratic plan trusts washington politicians. i think the american pe...