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Challenge of it is, is that we now have time to work specifically on this problem. part of that would be putting pressures on state legislatures and governors having all the interest groups who care about medicaid, which i think is much more efficient as an insurance policy than any private health insurance company. it's very, very efficient. so we just have to find a way around it. >> many of your west virginia, your fellow democrats, senator manchin, the governor, the congress member, ray hall are deciding not to go to the democratic convention and 40% of the democratic voters voted not only...

>> i'm confident that the supreme court will not pay what would be unprecedented, extraordinary step. >> you have to have the mandate in order for this to work. >> if obamacare is not deemed constitutioconstitutional, thent three-and-a-half years of the president's term will have been wasted on something that has not helped the american people. >> we await the supreme court decision as does everyone. but while we do, we continue to implement the law. >> getting coffee. so eric, that was three-and-a-half years. what was the high point for you? >> eric: honestly, i think high point was...

something because that's beyond the power and the constitution that says congress has the power to, quote, regulate commerce. now, those who had objected to this said if somebody doesn't have insurance, then they're not doing anything you can regulate. and basically justice roberts agrees with that. however, he says, there's a longstanding cannon or tradition of interpreting laws, acts of congress, that says you look at there are other ways to find it constitutional. and he says there is. this is the government's fallback argument that if the mandate is still constitutional under the...

they try to pull the wool over america's eyes and changes in europe. not so fast, sunshine. it was a long, tough road for me. if anything, i hope that obamacare covers obamacare post traumatic stress disorder. i've got it and it's given me a rash on my back that resembles the head of nancy pelosi. if only it was a montage that reminds us how we got here. maybe with cheesy music. >> we have a healthcare system that only works if you're healthy and you're wealthy. if we're going to make real progress, this time, we've got to do things differently. 45 million fellow citizens have no hea...

number one, they think they have a small window here to essentially re-sell health care. that there is a moment now over the next few days, perhaps the next week where you'll have a public -- you saw it in our own polling. the numbers we debuted on your show earlier this week shows there's a third of the public, up to a majority of them in various parts of the health care law, that said they would have had mixed feelings no matter which way it went. so there is a pr opening here for the white house. the second thing that they emphasize is they believe that this puts the republicans, ...