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This law is designed to vastly expand medicaid and pay for it by eviscerating medicare. taking money from medicare and moving it to fund the expansion of the entitlement. >> why would they want to expand medicaid? >> they believe in a single payer system. this is a way of shifting resources in this country from one group of people -- the the elderly -- to another group of people. >> you think this is by design. >> i have read the law. there is no question that it was by design. it would have been twice as big but the supreme court ruled a year and a half ago the states couldn't be forced to ex...

This law is designed to vastly expand medicaid and pay for it by eviscerating medicare. taking money from medicare and moving it to fund the expansion of the entitlement. >> why would they want to expand medicaid? >> they believe in a single payer system. this is a way of shifting resources in this country from one group of people -- the the elderly -- to another group of people. >> you think this is by design. >> i have read the law. there is no question that it was by design. it would have been twice as big but the supreme court ruled a year and a half ago the states couldn't be forced to ex...

Federal government said it will pay 100% the first couple of years and 90% thereafter, politicians always break their promises. when that happens, they will pull the rug out the from under the states which already spend 24% of budget on medicaid. they will have huge costs so there is no money left for schools, roads. >> we are expanding medicaid rolls day by day with no way to fund it. who foots it is bill? >> the elderly. $716 billion is taken from medicare and shifted to medicaid. a lot of it is across the board cuts to hospitals. one section of the law, section 3000-a awards bonus points to...

Federal government said it will pay 100% the first couple of years and 90% thereafter, politicians always break their promises. when that happens, they will pull the rug out the from under the states which already spend 24% of budget on medicaid. they will have huge costs so there is no money left for schools, roads. >> we are expanding medicaid rolls day by day with no way to fund it. who foots it is bill? >> the elderly. $716 billion is taken from medicare and shifted to medicaid. a lot of it is across the board cuts to hospitals. one section of the law, section 3000-a awards bonus points to...

Are supposed to be covered under 133% of the poverty line are supposed to git medicaid. above 133% of the poverty line are going to shop in the exchange. i agree with you the rollout of the exchange at the federal level was disappointing. the roll out in connecticut, california, kentucky, d.c. and new york were good. many people are covered through there. now you don't examine how is it going now five weeks into it. is that enough? the fact is by march 31, that's when we have to ask how many people have been covered. we have a clear standard. are we going to get 7 million people covered or not...