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Find their talk points and attack ads. josh, you have been following this issue. i m curious if there s an alternative health care plan they will put out there. rally around it or keep going with ads like this. they won t go with any alternative plan. any alternative plan you create creates a new set of losers. the republican party has opposed whatever has come out from the left but hasn t pushed their own plans. it s been smart. when you try to reform health care and create access for people who don t have it it cost as lot of money. a key part of how they paid obamacare are measures that s causing premium increase forkrc substantial number of people. how the republicans message this for the mid-terms is going to really dictate how it goes for them in many ways. we ll talk about this more. ....
Progress is always possible. the world is full of surprise. josh, you said kind of the opposite in the sense that you don t think the republicans should offer up anything. politically i don t think they would be wise to. i don t know what planet peggy noonan is filing this column from. for republicans to turn it into a negotiation in remaking the american health care situation this is a discussion that should have been had on 2009. the president wanted republican votes on the bill. if republicans say we re not going to repeal this we have to replace it with something what will they replace it with? a lot of people won t be able to afford a plan we have to give out subsidies, you built obamacare. most conservative republicans don t want another big government program so they don t ....
As much sense as people think to rip out that rug from under people. what do you do? what s the alternative. do you do it in perpetuity? what s the alternative to do for these people. i want to put to it josh specifically and then you can comment. politically is there any way that this will be resurfaced in january and pass? i think it s very difficult to figure out where you get the money for that. the way it is in congress you have to come up with $25 billion. why didn t it end up in the budget deal. the budget deal created $65 billion in head room. if you wanted to do the unemployment benefits extension it would have taken up 63% of all of the room for new federal spending, there are a lot of other competing priorities and democrats decided this was not their first priority. they wanted to get back closer to normal across the federal discretionary budget. i agree it was too early. ....