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Or maybe they're not spending their health dollars in the way they should for their overall wellness, which could still drive costs in the future. >> there's no question that having insurance is a good step forward for everyone. but folks don't necessarily know what they've got when they go on the exchange and buy something until they get ill. preventative services may be covered but these narrow networks that likely will develop and can you keep your doctor, all of that will play out in the coming months. i think it's very important that we stay very close to this, but david, the affordable c...

Something the nation hasn't wanted to touch, but we have to have the courage to stand up to it. >> and you see doctors deal with the fact that medicare rates and reimbursement rates are going down. it affects hospitals. medicare drives health care costs in this country, right? >> in a large sense. about 50% of the costs are medicare costs. >> and what kind of reform has got to happen beyond the health care reform that has to do with insurance, which is the affordable care act? >> what needs to happen now is we need to modernize the payment system to drive better outcomes to pay for results, no...

You have colorado joining new york now passing these aggressive gun bills since the tragedy at sandy hook. do you think ultimately it'll be up to the states to get something done given the gridlock in washington? >> ultimately we need a national solution. illegal trafficking of guns that go to the streets of new york or denver know no respect for state borders. they will be trafficked across those borders. the borders are porous. so handguns, assault weapons can be brought from new york to colorado and vice versa. and the national background check has to be national. it has to be done with a d...

Country. again, if things are not done at the federal level, guns move across state borders very, very easily. doesn't there need to be some federal law? >> there are obviously plenty of laws, and that's one concern i do have is the failure to enforce current laws. unless we're going to enforce the current laws on the books and that states at the administration, starts at the state level as well, and it doesn't make sense to pile more laws on top of it, and the numbers we've seen is the declining law enforcement of our current gun laws, and that starts with the administration and moves on down...

The iowa republican has raised eyebrows for things like defending the legality of dog fighting and saying that it's not against the law to impregnate a 13-year-old girl and kidnap her across state borders to have an abortion. the latest, steve king takes on the tsa. take a look. >> as america, we decided we're going to process everybody the same. that means the 75-year-old grandmother gets the spread eagle search. and while that happens, maybe the 20-year-old middle eastern male waltzes through with a smirk on his face. i'm not making that up, i've seen that. that image will not ever leave my ...