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Go down and 30 million who were uninsured would have health insurance. right now those 30 million don't have health insurance because we haven't gotten to the mandate. >> they don't have it. but even worse, the government through the budget office said at least 20 million people are going to lose their health care because employers are going to drop them because the costs are escalating so fast on health care. employers are going to let them go. you can't win for losing on this bill. >> greta: what would you do? i mean, under your thought, would everybody have some sort of health insurance, it...

I'd put a presentation together describing my health care plan when i ran last time. >> he is right on the national mandate. what romney has supported was the idea that he thinks state mandates in other states might be looking at adopting the massachusetts model, meaning a state mandate. and that's always been this issue here is this idea of is he in favor of mandates? on a state level, it appears so. the romney campaign is trying to fix this message problem. and they're doing it with money pouring big dollars into these primaries. romney and the super pac have put down on paper $3.2 million i...

Intruce of government. he has repeatedly supported romney care. in 2008, romney care was just getting started. healthcare is central issue in this election because of what president obama did was use romney care and oppose a federal mandate on people. governor romney is right. state mandate is certainly lawful but not the right way to fix the problem. i saw what i saw from governor romney was a continuation of going to big government solutions after the 2000 elections which leads me to suspicion he has changed. the issue of obamacare is the issue in this race. it wasn't in 2008 and it's about ...

This and report on this. >> ener1 got $118 million in grants, not loans, grants to go forward. it is now bankrupt. it was supposed to employ 1400 people by 2013. it doesn't. it employs 350. what it does is makes lithium icon batteries for cars like the volt. there's no demand for plug-in electric cars. only 7,600 volts were sold last year. no demand for the product. >> part of the reason, it's so expensive. might as well buy a mercedes. it's $40,000 for a car that's solid but it's not worth $40,000. you can get more with another car, even a hybrid. >> ener1 had one customer, a company that cal...

It's another example of the government picking winners with our money. unfortunately, they're losers when we lose our money. >> what about the report yesterday that car manufacturers are going to have to have more of these types of cars in the future? >> you're referring to california, i think. >> yes, will that mean some of these companies then will have demand or they'll just go all by the wayside by the time that actually happens? >> there's an example of government stimulating demand for the subsidized products which we're losing money on. in california, there is a demand, a state mandate ...