get medicaid who otherwise will qualify for medicaid. eventually that will change and they'd be added to the pool, to me, the most astounding thing about this debate, there's so much intensity over a noncontroversial idea. people should exercise personal responsibility and buy insurance. >> phil, white house adviser for health policy reform, thanks a lot. >> thank you. >>> coming up, the koch brothers super pac takes on a county of 6,000. >> iron county is a vast and diverse place in northern wisconsin. bordering lake superior and the upper peninsula of michigan. many roads and highways will take you here, and once you're here you'll know it was worth the trip. >> why the billionaire brothers group is getting involved in a very, very local election, stick we needed for our riley. for over 18 years weangieslist.complein todt those little cialis tadalafil for daily use helps you be ready anytime the moment is right. cialis is also the only daily ed tablet approved to treat symptoms of bph, like needing to go frequently. tell your doctor ab

get medicaid who otherwise will qualify for medicaid. eventually that will change and they'd be added to the pool. to me, the most astounding thing about this debate, there's so much intensity over a noncontroversial idea. people should exercise personal responsibility and buy insurance. >> phil, white house adviser for health policy reform, thanks a lot. >> thank you. >>> coming up, the koch brothers superpac takes on a county of 6,000. >> iron county is a vast and diverse place in northern wisconsin. bordering lake superior and the upper peninsula of michigan. many roads and highways will take you here, and once you're here you'll know it was worth the trip. >> why the billionaire brothers group is getting involved in a very, very local election, stick around. for paul ridley there's no substitute for advil. it's built to be as fast as it is strong and fights pain at the site of inflammation. advil has the strength and speed to help you move past pain. advil. make today yours. hey kevin...still eating chalk for hearburn? yea. try alka

but medicaid expansion hasn't been approved in your state. and it's a good thing. it's better for america. >> that seems like the most ridiculous thing to say. how is it better for america, for people who have treatable conditions to become permanently crippled? >> we can't afford it. and your wife-- can't she just sit. >> and-- take it easy,. >> it's hard not to seem like a total [bleep] when you're saying this stuff to people. >> when this guy has asthma, he's all-- you know, it's hard to argue that. >> i think they can probably get treatment for his asthma. >> probably-- okay,. >> i don't remember the specific situation but i do know that doctors don't turn away patients in need. >> az pa guy, i just checked. >> you can probably get treatment. okay? you're good. >> i tried the walk-in clinic. it doesn't work. so instead i have been in the emergency room 7 times in the last two years who picks up that bill. >> you're asking me to live my life in the emergency room. >> the problem is, it's hard to talk about this stuff with the real people t

medicaid expansion now! medicaid expansion now! >> "medicaid expansion now."hat was the rallying cry this week of a rising grassroots movement that is spreading across the south. the protest at the georgia state senate was the largest to date monday georgia, an outgrowth of the north carolina moral monday movement, which has staged regular rallies against a republican since last april. the tuesday's action in atlanta, nearly 40 people were arrested road testing a bill that would bar the expansion of medicaid. georgia has the fifth highest number of uninsured people of any state in the country. under the affordable care act, an estimated 650,000 additional residents in georgia would be eligible for medicaid. but the state is one of a number of republican-lead states that have opted out of such medicaid expansion. moral monday protest have taken place at the georgia state capitol since cheney where he. glory, glory, we need health care glory, glory, we need health care ♪ protest in south carolina, 17 members of a truthful tuesday coalition were arrested outside

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if you make up to $16,000 a year and your state agrees to expand medicaid you will go on the medicaidrogram. if you are below 100% of poverty, 11,400 for an individual and your state has said no, we don't want to expand medicaid under the haw because you are at 100% of poverty or below in income you are not allowed to get that subsidy and go on the exchange. what we find is millions of people, rough nim 5 million may -- number 5 million, they make the poverty line or blow they're not allowed to get those subsidies. >> are these states principally red states? >> most of them are republican dproafns. there are some republican governors that have embraced the change. the legislatures have simply said this is something we don't want to do. sometimes they say they think medicaid is a flawed program to begin with, it doesn't in their view serve their people properly. they don't want to expand it. while the federal government is paying for this new population 100% for three years it tapers down to where the government is paying federal government 90%, the state pay 10%. some state governors

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medicaid expansion. our lives matter! medicaid expansion. our lives matter! medicaid expansion.ur lives matter! >> more than 40 people were arrested today in atlanta during a serious of protests around the capitol and the governor's office. these folks, mostly retirees came out in force calling for georgia to expand medicaid, something that's been refused to do. blocking medicaid expansion for hundreds of thousands of georgians is just one part of a broader reactionary agenda being pushed by republicans in georgia right now. lawmakers down there also tryin safe carry protection act right now. or as the nra refers to it, the most comprehensive pro-gun reform legislation in recent state history. let me give you a rundown of a few thing this legislation would do. allow guns to be carried in bars and some government buildings, churches, certain parts of airports. one version of the bill would expand the ability of adults to carry weapons in schools and prohibit the state from keeping a gun database of owners with a carry permit. maybe the most insidious piece of this legislation is

with medicaid expansion, people are actually going to be flipping back and forth between medicaid and between the insurance exchanges, so at unity and community health centers will be there for them regardless of their covered status. is ourincent keane guest, president and ceo of unity health care. (202) 585-3880 if you want to preserve a, east and central time zones, (202) 585-3881 out in the pacific, and medical professionals, we would like to hear from you as well, (202) 585-3883. david in glen cove, new york, good morning. you are on the "washington journal." caller: yes, good morning. i have a couple of questions. i have a feeling -- what if somebody comes to the health center and gets diagnosed with, let's say cancer, and they are told what at that point? are they told to go seek a hospital? and how to they pay for this? host: if you can hold on for just a minute, mr. keane, we will get the second question as well. david? we are listening. go ahead with the second question. caller: the second question is is the health center really targeting people below the poverty line? care,

. >> closer to 8.9 million in the medicaid. some of those are renewals. some of them are newly eligible in states that chose to expand their medicaid programs. >> so the 8 million plus number includes people who probably qualified before, or who just transition from current medicaid, what they had before to what they have not? >> some states require newly pashtun yearly renewals but there are close to 9 million people who have medicaid coverage, a number of those are newly insured. >> if i do the quick math, 9 million under medicaid, 4 million with the private insurance under the marketplace, 3 million young adults, that's about 60 million americans who have health security today that they might not have had before? >> that saturate. >> my understanding is looking at the jobs number since the affordable care act act passed more than 8 million jobs have been created in this country, not lost. and effect if you look, i look at just the health care sector and in the health care sector, since the passage of the affordable care act

so, up next, the fight, and it's a fight, over medicaid expansion. sparking a progressive revival in the deep south? but first, here's the latest on the search for malaysia airlines flight 370. >>> authorities say a french satellite has captured images of debris floating near the search area in the indian ocean off the coast of australia. we are still awaiting the release of those images. this is the third set of satellite images announced in recent days. it comes just one day after officials revealed an image of a large floating object captured by a chinese satellite. that object was spotted about 74 miles southwest of the spot where a few days ago, another satellite captured similar images of floating debris. ships and planes from more than two dozen countries, including the u.s., are involved in the search. but, so far, there's no definitive sign of the plane or the 239 people who vanished more than two weeks ago. we'll have more on this ongoing mystery in our next hour, including the latest on the passengers' families. ameriprise asked people a s

but i would say at this point with the expansion of medicaid through the affordable care act, medicaid is probably one of the largest sources of our revenue just now. host: does a community health center operate like a hospital? can it be used as a clinic? an emergency room, doctors office? guest: well, i would think the latter, peter. it's probably more akin to a doctor's office where in fact it was not a hospital. those of us who are experienced with the hospitals, that implies a longer stay. it is not an emergency room, although unity health care and several health centers throughout the united states, they offer urgent care and they offer urgent care from the perception of longer hours of service so that people can gain access, but it's not a hospital. it's not a minute clinic. it is akin to a doctor's office where you or i might go for physicals, a whole array of services. what is unique to community health centers, it's not just a one-on-one doctors visit. it is the patient is the focus of the service. and that patient may engage with their primary care provider which can be a nu

he says he is for the medicaid expansion but medicaid expansion was part of the affordable care act.e cornerer stones. you can't have it both ways. you are either for it or not. >> do the residents of new jersey want this expansion? >> absolutely. >> so he is in your opinion doing what? denying the people? >> he is standing in the way of many people connecting to what they need to be more healthy and live more healthy and productive lives. >> i don't want to make this personal but this man loves to get up and pontificate and he is very combative. how does it feel? >> it was like going around with some of the lawyers that i used to dot that with. i was surprised to be called on. we have been out in the forefront of this issue for a long time. this is not about governor christie and i. >> did you feel like you were fairly treated? >> i felt he was a bit rude. we were glad that if nothing else it was the way to get the message out. >> what do you want the governor to do totally across the board right now as we are closing in on this deadline? you obviously want to see him make a shift t

conservative lawmakers in georgia are refusing to expand medicaid.ale wants to deny insurance to more than 600,000 of the poorest people in his state. he is pushing a gop-sponsored bill that would require lawmakers to give legislative approval to any medicaid expansion future plans in the future, any medicaid expansion plans in the future. so this would really harness a future lawmaker, a governor who might want to do it. this is just another way conservatives are trying to stop obamacare from working as i see it. last week a group of activists protested the governor's deal at the state capitol. 39 people were arrested. >> this is a crate cal moment. a lot is at stake. we're talking about the governor of our state saying that he will deny access to health care to citizens of this state. >> expanding medicaid is not only the morally correct thing to do, it's also smart economically. a georgia state university report shows medicaid expansion would create more than 70,000 jobs in georgia. a new study from the commonwealth fund shows georgia could see a

centers for medicaid services or cms, nine million people are eligible for medicaid.s us to the next topic. some who are eligible and already enrolled in medicaid include prisoners. we have senior fellow at the manhattan institute quoted in "new york times" article just recently said this quote, there can be little doubt it would be controversialit was widely understood a substantial proportion of the medicaid expansion that taxpayers are funding would be directed towards convicted criminals. you should have seen that quote hopefully. we'll get it to you. he is here to actually talk about it. michael weinberg, senior policy advisor to the bay area council. that is a interesting thought. a lot of us didn't know that or maybe don't really know how to feel about that. why do you think it is controversial? >> i wrote about this today for "forbes." the impression you get from advocates of the affordable care act act, 50 million people are uninsured. the reason they're uninsured they're denied coverage by mean insurance companies due to preexisting condition. the truth of m

can you tell us what is happening in iowa with the medicaid expansion? what do you think will be the outcome there? >> i do not know. i'm sorry the governor did not just accept medicaid expansion. that would have been the best. that would have been understandable. the governor had a different design on medicaid expansion. some of it i am not objected to. it has to do with wellness. i feel very strongly about wellness and prevention. giving people who are on medicaid to take better care of themselves and get their checkups and be involved in preventative health care. there are some of that that is pretty good. it is moving along in iowa. hopefully, over the next course of the next year or two, i am hopeful people who are on medicaid will have full access. it would have been simpler to go to the federal system. the state of iowa still could have added the provisions on wellness to that. the governor saw differently. i think every state that accepted the federal provisions on medicaid are doing much better than the states that did not. >> we have about 10 m

guest: you might be talking about medicaid. that is being expanded in about 26 states now to cover folks earning higher incomes just above the poverty line. it is a -- there is a clear demarcation in the law between ellsbury for medicaid and for the affordable care act insurance exchanges. if you are not eligible for medicaid, you are eligible for insurance exchanges. if you are eligible for the insurance exchanges, you're not eligible for medicaid. it is not easy to fall back on medicaid if you do not fall back on if or book cap. host: next up in houston, texas, on the democrats line. caller: i was going to ask our guest, do you think the word will be reintroduced again? the only thing that has come true about the whole debate is that word has been eliminated. i am sure to the delight of big business republicans. i do not know why democrats have allowed this to happen. guest: the caller is talking about reimportation for prescription drugs from countries like canada. it was never put on paper, but there has always been specula

this would be the largest expansion of health care coverage since medicare and medicaid. other organizations tracking the rollout like gallup are offering different numbers. but no matter how you do the path, the central point is the same, people are signing up for health care because people want health care coverage. what does that mean if you're a republican? it means that you keep paying attention to the rhetoric and not the numbers. >> it's driving up costs riling now. >> they're cooking the books on this. >> it's not anything to be proud of or crow about. >> democratic congressman marsha fudge of ohio joins us, of course you're also head of the congressional black caucus. these numbers are pretty sundaying sunday i stunning if you look at the rand corporation numbers. how is this not the democrats calling card and success story going into the midterm elections? >> it absolutely is our calling card, there's no question about it. i think that when people sit back and realize that the affordable care act really did what it was supposed to do. and i listened to the clip.

i was wondering about the cost of medicaid.know there is criticism about particular states not choosing to expand medicaid so that people can get this -- i would not call it affordable. don't they realize it is the states that is going to have to incur that expense? the states already have some expense in taxing. that seems to be something that some people do not understand. they do not realize who is going to fund medicaid? guest: medicaid is not free and cost a lot of money. in some states it is the second or third largest item. the federal government said it would pay for 100% of the cost of the expansion. for the first three years, states would not be on the hook for any of the cost of the medicaid expansion. after that the cost gets shifted to the states a little bit. the states' share never cost more than 10% of the total. 24 states have said the 10% cost is simply too much for their budgets. host: last caller is nancy from chicago on our line for independents. caller: hi. host: hi, nancy. caller: i had a comment. i hear

we're also going to take a look at the news of first lady's trip to china and efforts to expand medicaid here at home. that is all coming up this hour. >> is this a piece of malaysia airline flight 370? >> this was spotted at about noon on the 18th of march. >> the aircraft have lowered their altitudes and they're actually using eyes on. >> the crews are reporting really terrible visibility. >> there's a debris field out there and we will find it. >> even the expanded search area is the size of the fifth biggest state in the united states. >> what we have here is probably the deepest mystery in aviation history. >> a glimmer of home but the riddle of this missing plane remains. >> it's just about day break in the southern indian ocean and right now weather could once again be a problem as crews get set to resume the search for that missing malaysian airliner. just as china, japan and britain prepare to join the search, malaysia's transport ministered warned that some search vessels may have to go through a cyclone to get through the search area. the big news has been china's releasing a

it isn't medicaid. it's the hatred of the man in the white house. they'll sit and tell you now, but let me tell you, i didn't just get here from mars. >> governor mcauliffe expects lawmakers to stay in session three weeks to work on medicaid and the budget when they return march 24th. >>> lawmakers passed several bills. reforms improving the mental health services which comes in the response to attack on senator deeds by his son. the general assembly voted to tighten ethnic laws capping giftgift at $250. they passed the measure to allow hunting on sundays. >>> a house is set to be torn down. those nearby are fighting the demolition. we'll tell you why they do not want the developer to move in. >>> concerns about terrorism are rising as we learn about stolen >>> more than two dozen psych h -- dozen cyclists are traveling. they're pedaling 40 miles. team 26 was started after the shooting at sandy hook elementary in december 2012. 20 children and six adults died in that shooting. the group started to promote in their memory. >>> groups gathered to stop

like to expand medicaid.is taxation without representation, you can use whatever kind of analogy you would like to use, it's a terrible situation and all of us should be worried. >> we should note it would have a positive economic impact on the state. $45 billion in medicaid fundses would come into the state. it would create 70,000 jobs statewide, that's from georgia state university. just to be clear about the kind of apocalyptic vision or the stakes that the other side sees in this fight. this is a facebook posting from jason spencer, who's the sponsor of that bill, he says, when the senate appeared to try to table the legislation, i will identify the republican benedict arnold, king george iii who shipwrecked his bill to prevent the federal mymidons to receive health insurance mandates a patriot saved his country from his government. that strikes me as a fairly extreme vision about what the affordable care act and health insurance for poor people represents. >> well, it certainly has tones of success, does

this is across 14 other states and we're not just talking medicaid.verage people trying to sign up for regular health insurance and the government will help them. >> that allows for the potential of a lot of fraud. >> exactly. tons of fraud. the affordable care act does expand medvedev okayed eligible for people making up to 133% of the federal poverty level, just under 16,000 decide. this year they're expecting $19.4 billion worth of improper payments to be made out -- paid out through the medicaid system. so that a lot of room for fraud. >> they're saying get them in now, ask questions later. >> that looks to be the case and we're getting closer to the end of open enrollments. they're trying to cover their tracks. >> you've say tracks, i say something else. >> we're on air. >> do you remember this? >> i think what we have in large case is governors playing politics with people's lives and with people's health. >> millions of people who right now, even under the law, may not get healthcare they deserve because their governors he refused to do it for

so, the medicaid, medicare, no drugs will be going up, because of the affordable care act. as a matter of fact, in the affordable care act, it makes it so that drugs will come down, especially for medicare. >> elizabeth, did you want to weigh in on that? >> well, i think that we have to deal with drug prices as a whole in this country. and one thing that the affordable care act didn't do, because it wasn't allowed to, is to allow medicare to negotiate drug prices on our behalf. >> so medicare we're talking about now? >> yes. >> that's the next step, but once medicare does something, it opens the door for everyone else to start doing it. we really do need to deal with this issue of drug pricing and the affordable care act doesn't finish that, but, you know, one act can't do everything. it does a lot of other things really well. >> corey, with i want to quickly get in a question we got from somebody at google who called himself hip senior, love that. they said, if you currently live in a state like minnesota and have a medicare plan for yourself and your family, and you move

. >> closer to 8.9 million in the medicaid. some of those are renewals. some of those are newly eligible in states that chose to expand their program. plus numberlion includes people who probably qualified before or who just transition from current medicaid . >> some states require yearly renewals and they are included tothat, but there are close 9 million people who will have medicaid coverage. , 9if i do the quick math million under medicaid, 4 million with private insurance in the marketplace, 3 million young adults. that is about 16 million americans with health security today that they might not have had before. >> that is accurate. >> my understanding, looking at the numbers since the affordable care act past, over 4 million jobs have been created in this country and if you look just at the health care sector, and the health care sector since the passage of the affordable care act we have seen over one million jobs created in the health-care sector. as we continue to talk about job loss in the affordable care act, it appe

to help people just above the poverty level get into medicaid.one of the ones that i would -- i would approve on. we try to make that mandatory, the u.s. supreme court upheld the overall bill but threw out the mandatory part. yes, i care about massachusetts but i care about poor people in many of those states who are terribly deprived and aren't getting any assistance. so i would like to mandate and we're talking about 90% -- >> if i can jump in there, one thing i would say, it's far from clear that medicaid actually solves the problem of life expectancy being lowered for poor people. all of the literature, one published in the new england journal of medicine, showed med okay had no impact on health outcomes, there's a problem with discrepancies but it's not clear it is addressing the problem? >> i disagree with that. >> there is literature that suggests that it -- >> there's literature on a variety of things. the fact is there are -- and i know this from people i've talked to, there are clearly people who don't get as much medical care as they s

i am forced into medicaid. last week, i was disturbed to find out that under existing law, people who are 55 and older of theject to having all health-care costs provided after the age of 55 under medicaid. by the government under a current estate recovery law. i do not have income -- all i have is my estate. i am flabbergasted at the thought that the government is going to try to take my estate should i die after age 55 because of care i was forced into. host: ok. caller: what disturbs me is that they did not put it on the cover of the document. host: we will see if dr. emanuel has -- sorry this has befallen you. i am not an expert in state law and how this intersects with the medicaid system. i will not give information there. the structure of the law is that people are newly eligible for medicaid, under 132% of the line go into that and people above that and can buy private insurance go into privateange and get insurance. on the particulars of yours and how it intersects the plane medicaid and your estate pl

medicaid has expanded under the law. medicaid, the population is growing by a lot.people are covered under the program. this is the thing we see lawmakers focus on kitchen -- focus on to try to figure out the different roles. host: a question from twitter -- there are exemptions for the health care law. illegal immigrants cannot perform in the health care marketplaces. people with certain poverty levels are exempt from having to buy insurance also. low number because there are subsidies for people to help buy the insurance. the supreme court looked at the issues and upheld it. it does apply to almost all people but everyone needs to pay insurance or pay the tax penalty. you do have the option of paying not wantty if you do the health-care coverage that qualifies under the law thomas about is how we're moving forward. host: i want to talk about them -- demographics. this was taken october 1 through march 1. is 10% of the population. 26-30 four is 16%. ages 35-40 four, making up 16%. you see a spike when you look at older groups. is 23%. what does that age breakdown m

the cal medical connect program is focused on dual giggles medi-cal and medicaid beneficiaries and to combine all health services plus the two into a package it's through managed care. based on the traditionally medi-cal managed care plan and in addition the pace program is offered as an option because of the history of sgrath care through the pace model and through the model the plans the capital payment for the medi-cal and medicaid services. the long term services and support that are included include in home services and the services program and skilled nursing care. the adult services program is the new name for the health program and is already part of the managed care right now. as i mentioned cal medical connect is one piece of the program and the other is for medi-cal beneficiaries who are maybe not medicare eligible or choose not to enroll they'll be required to enroll for the long term services and support so the second is called the long term support program. in terms of the coordinated cal program 8 county have been authorized to moved in this initiative. you see the list

you may have seen the recent blogger report about 9 million in medicaid. we have to be careful. it is obviously a function of real enrollment as well as new enrollment. if you read some of the other reports somewhere between two and a half and three and a half our new enrollments in medicaid. that is with 25 states in d.c. expanding. our work is hardly done. many have you in this room have done exhaustive work for the remaining 25 states which have yet to expand. what i want to offer today is my assistance with those 25 states in any way that i can. sometimes it is better for me to stay out of the way. sometimes it is better for me to meet with governors and members of the legislature. i just want you to know how important this is to me and to see him as an that i am available on a moment's notice to help anybody and can . fixing the health care system is not just about access and it does not stop with guaranteeing that everyone has coverage. we still have to deal with the rising cost of health care. this is where you guys have stepped up each and every day. of want to pause and

you might be talking about medicaid.hat is being expanded in about 26 states now to cover folks earning higher incomes just above the poverty line. it is a -- there is a clear demarcation in the law between ellsbury for medicaid and for the affordable care act insurance exchanges. if you are not eligible for medicaid, you are eligible for insurance exchanges. if you are eligible for the insurance exchanges, you're not eligible for medicaid. it is not easy to fall back on medicaid if you do not fall back on if or book cap. next up in houston, texas, on the democrats line. caller: i was going to ask our the word you think will be reintroduced again? the only thing that has come true about the whole debate is that word has been eliminated. the delight of big business republicans. i do not know why democrats have allowed this to happen. the caller is talking about reimportation for prescription drugs from hump -- countries like canada. paper, butr put on there has always been speculation that as part of the affordable care a

medicare, medicaid, social security. i listen the people come in and say we are going to dismantle it and we're just going to knock the hell out of it. i'm a friend of paul ryan. i like him very much. but i don't like what they are saying. i want to make this country so strong and so rich, so powerful, we have so much energy and so much money under our feet. [applause] to take away peoples social security, medicare, medicaid. you want to stop the fraud and abuse? believe me there is plenty. they had a vote recently of tea , 79% said do not my medicaid,care, my social security. how the hell do you get elected when you want to do that? i want to make the country so strong and you can do it. we are sitting on top of something that is so amazing, such incredible wealth. the way you solve all of these problems is tremendous wealth, of ourous strengthening military. they want to cut our military. [applause] listened to vladimir putin about what we are going to get. we don't want you to use those missiles. hard to believe. the

expand medicaid! >> this this is really a small price to pay given the fact that there are a lot of people who are handcuffed to poverty and unable to get basic health care in the richest country in the world. >>> and it isn't just the south. the faith-based protests have found voice further north in new york this month as part of moral march. see what they did there? on thursday 59 demonstrators were arrested for protesting legislation including tax cuts for the wealthy and cuts to state programs. an organizer for the moral monday movement in georgia told the "new york times" that they are, quote, at the beginning of a new southern strategy, and i have to say i like this one a whole lot better than the old one. one longtime tempt operative was more pessimistic about the impact the demonstrations could have. moral monday was just born out of frustration, he told "the times." it's a desperate battle for political relevance. so can these groups have an impact on politics especially in an era in which bi

he wasn't talking about his support for obamacare's medicaid expansion.lking about red meat. the same principles i think lead to come out on stage with a musket if you're viewed as an establishment candidate. something along those lines. i think one of the things that is interesting about cpac this year is maybe a little more openness of the divides within the party. the most interesting event i thought at cpac today wasn't at cpac but a companion conference on foreign policy that was running along the same side. where ted cruz talked about his own foreign policy views as being not with john mccain on one hand and not with rand paul on the other but in the middle and of course there you have the reagan sighting again. i think that's one of these -- >> i call that the goldilocks foreign policy. >> it's interesting in the sense it preludes the conversations from the right leading up to 2016. >> this tweet, got re-tweeted a ton, it's the minority outreach panel at cpac. big problem, most important panel, minority outreach, largely empty room. >> yeah. i mean

they qualified for medicaid because texas -- medicaid program, they left after two hours with no insurance a plan that would cost $400 a month because this man -- you don't have any subsidies if you are under a certain income. he was very flustered and disappointed. you have about a million people overall in texas who would get medicaid except for what governor perry decided to do. >> in your evaluation, going around the state, do people understand that is why they are not qualified? you have texas right now who has for fitted, given up, $9.6 billion in federal matching funds, up to 2022, they will not get coverage. when you are talking to people like that couple do they understand that it is because their state refuses to expand medicaid or do they blame obamacare for not getting coverage? >> you know, they became obama. one thing that's important to moat is that the navigators and people that are helping enroll people, they really often try to avoid talking about politics very much. they don't mention obama. they don't mention obamacare. the result is they kind of talk in generic terms a

under medicaid managed care, those orange to lines are the percentage of state medicaid provided through private managed care companies, and you can see that relentlessly going up in the '90s and 2000s. private health insurance without government intervention, less employment-based coverage, less or possibly no managed care, higher cost cans because there wouldn't be a tax subsidy and perhaps a different political dynamic for universal coverage, the debates we're having today over the affordable care act would be very, very different. so the affordable care act, what is that about? that's about obama's skill at getting private industries, pharmaceuticals, insurance plans, hospitals, even the ama onboard promising new frontiers in business and then those companies beginning to realize the new customers for insurance companies, the new-paying patients for hospitals. there's a downside to this, serious downsides. one of them is regulatory capture where those who are regulated take over the regulators, take over the spigot of funding. that red line on the left is money spent by health care i

these were people already eligible for medicaid.e states did not expand medicaid 45% of the population. there are 55% of the signups. so the vast majority of that 8.9 million were people already eligible for medicaid. the other thing is we find out that a bunch of states are reporting numbers of people who are are simply renewing their annual medicaid coverage and the federal government glumps them in to that 8.9 million number and does not break them out. once again we are being mislead and deliberately in order to it make this program look better than it is. it is an utter unmitigated policy disaster. as a result, it will be a big problem for the democrats politically come november. >> okay. we're in the president's second term and we are now going to i assume a lame duck at some point in the next two years. looking at just where we are right now. what's the best thing that you see he has done as president in his second term so far? >> well, i would be hard-pressed. i do think that he did it the right thing by continuing in 2013 t

i would say at this point, with the expansion of medicaid through the affordable care act medicaid isne of the largest sources of our revenue just now. host: does the community care center operate like a hospital? can it be used as a clinic? an an emergency room, a doctor's office? guest: i would think the latter, peter. it is probably more akin to a doctor's office where in fact it is not a hospital, and those of us with experience in hospitals that implies a long-term -- a longer stay. it is not an emergency room, although unity health care and several health under throughout the united states offer urgent care and they offer urgent care from the perception of longer hours of service so that people can gain access, but it is not a hospital. it is not a minute clinic. it is akin to a doctor's office where you wereor i might go for a range of services. it is not just a one-on-one doctors visit. the patient is the focus of the service, and that patient may engage with their primary care provider, which could be a nurse practitioner, a doctor, or a physician's assistant. they also engag

according to data from rand 4.5 million previously uninsured adults have signed up through medicaid. that has been politically charged and only half the states have agreed to do it. because of americans who lost coverage because their previous plans were cancelled because of not meeting standards, that is less than 1 million. most of americans that lost their old policies have found other ones or competitive priced alternatives on the obamacare exchanges. so when it comes to people getting coverage, the system appears to be working. however in order to avoid sky skyrocketing premiums, younger must participate compared to older more expensive americans. overall percentage is 38%, going into this weekend, 26%. that's why the push at the end is aimed at younger people. the young invincibles is crucial, the data on their signup will come out later this week and that should speak volumes about this program whether it remains sustainable. >> whoa, david, a hot of information there. one thing we know for sure is there are problems with the website. good they take the website down every nigh

understand why they may not be eligible for help paying for insurance because texas did not expand medicaid. that's created a lot of confusion. there are people who we talked to in our outreach who thought obamacare did not apply in texas. there is has been a lot of confusion and barriers we've had to overcome to get people enrolled in health insurance. >> has there been an effort in texas through private sources and private funding to counter some of those misconceptions about how the law works? do you have billboards and psas and things like that? >> yes, i'm in austin, and our central health, which is a tax-payer hospital district has spent money advertising, television reports trying to get the word out in our country and in central texas about the affordable care act, and encouraging people to take advantage of it. >> are you expecting a busy day on monday? >> i think every day between now and monday is going to be crazy. >> elizabeth colvin, thanks for joining us. >> thank you. >> elizabeth colvin from insure central texas. we're going to take a short break, and when we come back we'l

now, if we have a lot of medicaid enrollees, they are not expanding their medicaid population and their patient base. >> you didn't offer that in tennessee, correct? so those are people -- >> let me finish my thought here, then we'll talk about tennessee. >> okay. >> what we are doing, if we are giving an insurance card to those individuals who do not have access to the doctor, basically, it's a false promise, because you say, you have insurance to the queue, not to the physician. now the reason there was not a medicaid expansion in tennessee is because we have been to this dance before. it was in the mid '90s, the test case for hillary care, it was an abysmal failure. we have secretary sebelius, who is called the rollout of obamacare a debacle. that is exactly what happened in tennessee. a debacle. the legislature has chosen not to expand medicaid in tennessee, and with good reason, because they know it is not an affordable premise and they are very concerned about the impact that would have on the access to health care within our state. >> what is your belief that this is not affordab