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in the head with. why won't you bring up it for a vote? why can't you defend it? that's the way the republicans are going to start their dialogue. >> not only would repeal not pass, but according to a poll by a.p. over the weekend, three out of four people don't want it to. why? because full repeal means raising taxes on small businesses, reopening the medicare doughnut hole and putting insurance companies back in charge of your health care. see, if republicans would counter that by saying the reason you don't want to bring it up on the senate floor is because the senators would actually be on record as how they voted for this and many of them are in conservative districts, democrats in conservative districts and how would that affect their re-election bid? >> sure, and there you go, that particular spokesperson is citing that a.p. poll. when that came out, democrats said look at that, that's such good news for us. we're going to use that. in the meantime, some had regarded that as an outliar, kind of a blip on the radar. where did that number come from? there's a brand new "washington post," abc poll out that shows
going in private insurance. they're not going to be on the federal programs, medicare and medicaid. but the medicaid and medicare programs will see prevention as part of the program. we all know and certainly my friend dr. fleming knows, if you're able to do prevention, that's early care, for example, diabetes or blood pressure, you will be able to reduce the cost of medical services over time and so those kinds of reductions at the -- on those programs that are federal are real. now, the 33 million are almost entirely in the private insurance sector and those will not be on the federal budget issues. it is the congressional budget office that has made the estimate that this program will save $230 billion over the next nine years. how they come to that conclusion, you can go back and forth on. but that is the conclusion of the independent nonpartisan congressional budget office. >> all right.
them into other bills. where they have double accounting of the savings from medicare which will not even occur to begin with. and then also they do something really strange and they manipulate the budget window by creating 10 years of revenue against six years of expenses. now, wouldn't roger ails love to run fox that way? and then finally, the class act which is a long-term care opt in that americans can choose, it's not mandatory, the premiums will go in for long term care but then they will actually be spent immediately for health care and this. >> you're doing a great job proving your point. i have to get the congressman in here, though. congressman, how do you respond to charles krauthammer who says when you add 33 million people to the medical, you know, list, who is going to pay for it? >> sure. well, those 33 million are principally, almost all of them
they won't have the benefit of the tax exam shopbs that an employer has and things of that nature. >> to say the health insurance law haw created an opportunity to have health insurance? wake up, they already did. this is causing them to perhaps lose the policy that they had. the new problem here may be how much mcdonald's is charging in overhead in running this thing. i'm having a little trouble understanding why the ins and outs of people cause them so much money to comply with they are dealing with $2,000 capped policies. >> this healthcare law has already changed the lives of millions of americans by not allowing kids to be kicked off their policies for preexisting conditions. parents can keep them on until they are 26. wellness visits are now covered. the medicare doughnut hole was filled, seniors are getting pre eupl burst -plts for prescription drug coverage. this law as more americans under the benefit is becoming