the bulls and bears this week, here is tracy bird, john layfield along with david mercer. welcome to everybody. john, is the health care law turning into a rotten apple for shoppers at the supermarket? >> absolutely. surprise, surprise. this is what happens when you pass a law that nobody has read. and you have a problem here. we're told you have a lot of undocumented workers that you're trying to get insurance to. also, you have simple margin errors. you have 2% margins that a lot of contract labors are farmed out on to the farms. you start adding 10%, they can't make money. this has to go directly to the consumer. we talk about low interest rates. our market, our economy is not -- has no shock absorber to absorb something like inflation. this isn't a huge spike. this is inflation. >> john, do you agree? >> we'll see higher food prices. but we would see that if illegal immigrants picks up, too. at the end of the day, the most businesses, not like apple computer, they're if a tight margin. any additional cost gets passed on to the consumer. that's like saying we pay a lot

the bulls and bears this week, here is tracy bird, john layfield along with david mercer. is the health care law turning into a rotten apple for shoppers at the supermarket? >>

bush and david mercer, finance director for the dnc. thank you both for joining us. >> thank you, heather. >> pleasure to be here. >> senator cruz would need 41 senators or 218 representatives to get behind his legislation. so, mercedes, i'll begin with you. what do you think about his tactics? >> well, you know, i think senator cruz's heart is in the right place, however i think his tactic quite frankly won't work politically. we know that there's a public support out there to basically oppose or disapprove of obama care. i think that in essence of trying to shut down the government when you're not including obama -- or funding obama care, i think that's when you have a big problem because there's not that public support for shutting down the government. at the end i think the house leadership's approach where, you know, basically they're talking about different options, but the fact that they're causing the slow death of obama care is i think a much more effective tactic than going forth with how senator cruz is approaching it. they j

the bulls and bears this week, here is tracy bird, john layfield along with david mercer.