in less direct spending to medicare. 14 million fewer enroh llles. these are the poor and indigent. joining me now is austin, a professor at the university of chicago and the former chairman of the council of economic advisers in president obama s administration. thanks for having me. people right now who have insurance would lose it. the justification i ve been hearing is that because they re not forced to buy insurance by obamacare, people will have the freedom to not buy something ey don t want tobuy. what do you make of that? first of all, i think the summary statement of this cbo score is, this thing was a blood bash for that bill. you can see perfectly well why they wanted to pass the bill before they saw this score. i do not think that anyone would have knowingly voted for that bill, or at least a lot of