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Heard from jason chaffetz, and i guess the iphone is all things to all people, and if it is access to care and overall coverage. listen to what jason chaffetz said. we are getting rid of the individual mandate. we are getting rid of those things that people said they don t want. and, you know, americans have choices. they have to make a choice. rather than getting that new iphone they just love and want to spend hundreds of dollars on, maybe they should invest in health care. is health care for lower income americans the choice between an iphone and healthy kids? the point of obamacare, it was not supposed to be a luxury, it was supposed to be a right as an american citizen in the biggest economy of the world that you will have to choose between a telecom bill and health care. if you have the roll back of the ....
About what they do is shift costs back to people. d let me tel you trump voters don t want that. if you like the affordable care act, you are a state and the federal government says if you like the affordable care act you can keep it or if not come up with your own thing. which state would say let me come up with my own thing? there are states big enough to do it, new york, texas, california, big states can do this. but generally speaking the point of obamacare by the way, it s the part that obama didn t like, the mandate. you have to have everybody young and healthy to pay for it in order to do at this time. it only works in the biggest states and where it has struggled has been in smaller places. a credit to the senator for trying to do this. it s, as jarrod says, trying to bring everybody back to the same conclusion that all smart people come to, if you want all people covered, maybe you don t but if you do, this is the kind that ....
Obamacare is taking us is because it was predicated on what the heritage foundation laid it and what mitt romney implemented as governor, which is working in the state of massachusetts, and the assumption was it will work there, it will work nationally. we ll see. it s slightly early since we re a day into this to make a judgment one way or the other. certainly there was reason to think that obamacare s model had ample precedents. guy in? into much to refute there on the point of obamacare, this isn t just about a botched rollout. this is about central promises. if you like your plan and doctor you can keep them. lower premiums, decreased healthcare spendingle. none of those things are coming true. that s not something that just happened today and let s wait and see. that is being felt be millions of americans already. if we want to get a sense how this law is faring, fewer americans are insured today than they were last year, because of this law. that is a failure. ....
Interesting point. it will help him get his coffee sooner and everybody should tie. baker, shouldn t the facts diminish hysteria about health care and climate change? joy isn t the po nie it isn t the point of obamacare is to set more people dying. you know what is great the audience back home loved to hear about tele prompter stuff. they can t see it. i did that all the time. i have people sending me tweets saying talk about the tele prompter and what is in it. if only you cared more about this show that you cared about your hair. i read the story. the reason i am doing this, i am not as smart as i look. i didn t understand it. i am going to punt it to somebody else. this is the problem in our schools. he is a cia and he does president understand that the challenge doesn t understand the challenge. they didn t give us word ....
[ laughter ] bob: welcome back to the five. bob finally gets to have his segment. we talked before on the show about the union and labor disputes. a terrible situation this weekend. here is what happened. nurses at oakland, california, hospital went on strike, which they have every right to do, eric. so replacement nurses were brought in and while they were striking cancer patient was given the wrong medicine and died. concerns over patient care and strikes are brought to the forefront. before i turn this over to eric, let me make a point. every day in america, fully staffed hospitals lose someone because of mistakes. a lot of people die with the best care in the world because mistakes are made. if you have millions of people, it will happen. the idea someone suggested it s because of a union strike, they re out of their minds. eric: in this case it happened to be. it wasn t a new patient. they had been receiving ....