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Are? >> there is certainly some glee here, yes. >> yeah. professor, paul ryan may have his eyes on the next presidential contest. but he spoke a little bit about the last one this weekend, as well. take a listen to what he said. >> as i look back at the campaign, i think one of the problems that mitt and i had, we were arguing against big government, in theory. here's the difference now. we've got big government in practice. >> professor peterson, your reaction to i told you so from paul ryan. >> well, first, i agree with irin, it seems absurd for anybody to try out these particular talking po...

Rural areas and in a lost rural areas, these, health insurance, health insurers, they're usually only a couple of them. from what i am hearing, there isn't a whole lot of competition to drive down the rates for obamacare. >> in southeast georgia, rural peanut and cotton country in our state. , there are only two providers on website. number one. rates doubled and some cases gone up 250%. that is in rural georgia and that is happening all over rural america. jon: so what does the secretary have to say about that? >> sir, secretary confirmed that but didn't talk about any solution. let me tell y...

Work. what does that mean? where will it take us in march? >> contrary to what the president said today, this is not a good deal for most americans. it increases premiums for men 99%, doubles them. increases them for women on average 62%. young people are hit the hardest. as you pointed out those are the people they want to sign up. a young man is not going to siep up for a plan with a $3,000 or $5,000 deductible. he's not ever going to get anything back from that plan. >> that's the problem. many are looking at the numbers saying it's not a grand conspiracy that they set up the website to fai...

Together and go to single payer health care. like the system in england. single payer is -- imagine medicare for everyone in the whole country. senator reid wasn't the first to bring it up. watch. >> i'm all for a single-payer system. eventually. >> if i were starting a system from scratch i think the idea of moving toward a single-payer system could very well make sense. >> i have support ed signs in te street, advocacy and legislature, i have supported single-payer for longer than in of you have been on the face of the earth. i have always thought that was the way to go. >> what we have done...

The south, and that is not going to win national elections ever again. >> jim, what's your response to that. >> well, i'm going to put aside her comments about hating women, minorities. i think it's absolutely ridiculous, and not hating poor people. let me focus on the tea party from their perspective. the folks at tea party they talked to and i read what they're saying, i think they understood, there were some who didn't, that defaulting would be a bad thing. but i think, a, they didn't believe that we would actually default, that treasury could come up with the money, that they could priorit...