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Single payer option, the public option, democratic senator jay rockefeller of west virginia who chaired the senate commerce committee. great to see you. your reaction to this, your response to today's ruling. >> i'm pretty happy. andrea. you know qiq9ñ we worked on it a a long time, i know it's not necessarily popular, and that's because it's not well understood and the reason it's not well understood is that we did it from the ground up out in the open. so there was confusion, but i'm proud of the product, we'll continue to tweak it and make it more acceptable. but one part that i'm not happ...

98.2% of our overall population. as i say, our health care, our health outcomes are better. more businesses offering insurance. and it has not been a budget buster. the expansion, itself, added 1% to state spending. that's another myth about the affordable care act. in fact, the expansion is paid for by the federal government. and it's paid for by the federal government because it's a recognition that health is a public good. and everybody ought to have access to that care. >> deval pat rick, thank you very much. thanks for being with us today. >> great to be with you. up next, we have west ...

Coverage tonight. thank you, pete, great work. chuck, chris cillizza, and david gregory. of course, watching on "meet the press" as you have more time to absorb all of this. bring us the latest. our special coverage today of the health care ruling continues next with msnbc's rachel maddow. plus, still ahead, dr. zeke emanuel, massachusetts governor deval patrick,ç virginia goverr bob mcdonnell. plus, jay rockefeller, mark halperin and john heilman. this is "andrea mitchell reports" on msnbc. [ male announcer ] this is rudy.

That bill and also the larger issue of what the coal industry is not doing to protect coal miners and their futures by not reaching out and helping develop new technology, it's a very sad story. coal can still play an enormous factor in our energy policy, but right now, people are being rather calm about i, i'm not. >> nice to see you, whether you're calm or not, we always have having you on, senator rockefeller. thanks for being with us today. and which political story will be making headlines in the next 24 hours, i have a feeling it's health care. the fallout for justice roberts, for the ...