Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120327:19:17:00
Confronted, what can and what can't congress do in the name of promoting health care in america? >> everybody has to exercise. because there is no doubt that lack of exercise causes illness and that causes health care costs to go up. so the federal government says, everybody has to join a, an exercise club. >> doesn't that work, that work the way social security does? let me put it this way. congress in the '30s saw a real problem of people needing to have old age and survivors insurance. and yes, they did it through a tax. but they said, everybody has got to be in it. >> the essential questio...