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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120702:15:32:00

Louisiana. let s take a listen. in louisiana, 48th in the country in terms of child poverty and premature death and 48th in terms of industrial accidents and so forth. just by expanding medicate alone and accepting the president s expansion, 340,000 out of his 860,000 uninsured people get covered. as a doctor, when you hear about what s going on in your home state, how can it not afford to implement the exchange? it s interesting, medicaid pays so far below the rates, often times a patient cannot see a doctor. it is the illusion of coverage without the power of it. howard dean s wife, a doctor in vermont, does not accept medicaid because medicaid pays so poorly. if you take louisiana s medicaid and expand it further, that means more people will have the illusion of coverage without the ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120702:15:31:00

Jindal. every governor has two critical decisions. do we set up the exchanges and secondly, do we expand medicate? we are not doing either. joining me now is bill cassidy from louisiana and the congressman is also a doctor as well. great to you have here. as we hear it, your governor is saying it. are he and colleagues banking on mitt romney winning and repealing the health care law? couldn t respects be accused of playing politics? it s a broken system and putting more money into it will not rescue the system. as it is constituted, accepting greater obligation is bad for the health of the states and the federal government. ultimately for patients. a doctor was on meet the press with the governor yesterday. he gave startling facts about what s going on in the state of ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120702:14:10:00

This conversation especially if it s a focus of the presidential conversation. my crystal ball is as foggy as anybody s with how the out come is, but it s the water cooler topic of the day and it s confusing. most people believe in competitive opportunity in a free market system, but we also i guess human nature said if i can get it free, i want it. if you don t raise my taxes and raise the other people, it s more acceptable to me. my concern is we have been an entitlement mentality in this country whether it s medicare, social security or medicate which is a budget buster for the state. the health care reform is part of this entitlement mentality with a debt and growing. it s well-intended, but i m not sure we can afford it. thank you so much. we do appreciate you taking the time to talk to us. ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120702:15:34:00

Solutions that are the potential options, what are the right options for the state of louis louisiana and the larger picture if people are against the affordable care act? if your goals are to provide access to quality to lower cost. if you don t first, access ultimately suffers as does quality. medicate s prime example. the first thing is lower cost. republican solutions center around this as a primary variable empirically we know once you do that, access to quality medicine expands. when we look at massachusetts as a model for what the country can look at, they have seen health care costs lowered and done so dramatically. no, they have skyrocketed. in the small insurance mark, they have the highest premiums ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120630:13:17:00

Affordable care act is you have to expand medicaid coverage. more than half of the coverage happens and if they formally in the bill didn t do that then they lost all their medicaid money. mm-hmm. seven justices on the supreme court including justice kagan and briar joined the other five to say it wasn t constitutional, represented a gun to the head of the states and states can now take or leave the money on the table for the expansion of coverage. what does that mean in terms of how we should expect states to make the calculation? are conservative governors particularly in red states with lots of uninsured like texas or mississippi going to walk away from the expansion? yeah. the way i interpret it is they are assayingç the expansion of medicate occurs the same way the program came. it was optional. with federal matching funds that ....

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