jim tankersley, why the medicare increase at 2%? guest: under the affordable care act, states get incentives to expand medicaid so that people with higher incomes than before are eligible for it. not every state did that. supreme court said they did not have to. the states that have expanded the eligibility have seen a large increase in the number of people who are on medicaid. that has translated into, on average, much larger increases in people with insurance in the states that expanded medicaid, than those that did not. host: joyce is calling from camden 10, missouri, under $50,000. agree with everything that previous callers have said, manufacturing has gone overseas. the people we are bringing in from india and other countries are working for lesser ranges than previous employment rates, and immigration is killing us. you said mexico or latino immigration, one point something children. here in my area it is an average of four or five. parents come here illegally. they have no education and work at menial jobs which cannot affor

jim tankersley, why the medicare increase at 2%?t: under the affordable care act, states get incentives to expand medicaid so that people with higher incomes than before are eligible for it. not every state did that. supreme court said they did not have to. the states that have expanded the eligibility have seen a large increase in the number of people who are on medicaid. that has translated into, on average, much larger increases in people with insurance in the states that expanded medicaid, than those that did not. host: joyce is calling from camden 10, missouri, under $50,000. agree with everything that previous callers have said, manufacturing has gone overseas. the people we are bringing in from india and other countries are working for lesser ranges than previous employment rates, and immigration is killing us. you said mexico or latino immigration, one point something children. here in my area it is an average of four or five. parents come here illegally. they have no education and work at menial jobs which cannot afford --