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People wrongfully stopped, her budget will pay for t the budget will pay legal bills of the lawyers suing those who stopped. this is a disaster for arizona. to say nothing of the fact it's so unconstitutional, i predict is federal judge will prevent arizona from enforcing t problem his tomorrow. >> neil: wow, judge. a new report says healthcare costs will tick up under the new healthcare law but could it tick off voters in the upcoming november elections? to the guy who knows, frank luntz. what do you think? >> president barack obama has a problem. when he was making promises thaw get free hea...

Including my next guest, eric cantor. what do you make of this. >> this is just bad news that keeps on come being this bill. you know, we -- our argument all along was we need to do a -- we need to affect healthcare reform in a modest way that can be economically sustainable. first a focus on saving costs for taxpayers -- >> neil: but congressman, what if my guest was right and things are things that could happen but there's enough good here that negates that, you don't buy that? >> you know, cms has an independent channel sis, a nonpartisan independent figure which came out and said this bill...

There's over 500 billion -- over a trillion dollars of cuts to medicare. 50% of the seniors who have medicare advantage right now, which is the choice piece of medicare, will no longer have that. we also see language in the report which says that hospitals and other providers won't be able to continue to participate because of the structure of the bill. again, we said all along, trying to do this transformational change a trillion dollar bill which will cost an additional $311 billion -- >> neil: but your point's well taken but flip that around. if the argument is we don't need as many hospita...

He started the discussion saying we need to bring healthcare cost down but we have to make sure people who have healthcare coverage they like can keep it. this report right there goes to the heart of those matters. number one, it says we're not bringing down costs and, number two, it says that millions, millions of americans, will no longer be able to have healthcare they know because of this bill. so right away we see a little less or over a month from the passage of the bill promises broken, so you hear the republicans saying we need to repeal and replace this bill with the kind of healthcar...

Dollars program now whose lease on life has been ex continued bid another ten years. >> another ten years, thanks to the bill. >> neil: fine. all i'm telling you, that puppy started at $65 million. it's now a half and trillion. >> we have baby boomers. no one knew we were going to have this many kids. >> neil: fine, okay. we can't predict how people pro create. but here's what i'm saying. if we got that wrong to the tune of $65 million program. ultimately would carry a half trillion dollars tab, then using that rough math on a trillion dollars healthcare package, who is to say it's not going t...