mr. chairman, governor some think you for coming. governor barbour, you mentioned a couple of years ago you started a new program for the persons to individually signed up for allegedly. i didn't hear after that first year requiring individuals to synnott personally what happened to your roles, what percentage was the effect of that? .. >> i understand. >> that you can. >> yes, sir. can you elaborate on the experiencalling with bureaucracy and the attempts to have waivers? do you kind it helpful? timely? too burdensome? would you elaborate? >> my experience over seven years of being governor, there's a bunch of nice people that work there and they work hard. i went up to the headquarters to work through a complicated issue. for whatever season it is slow. and i am told that the average waiver takes a year. i have been through personally in the last 15 months a state plan amendment in contract that took 15 months and at the end of 15 months, it was approved expect they told us you can't do the part that actually helps. you know, they didn't approve th

mr. barbour. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i welcome mark governors here. i'm sure they'll be here at the appropriate time. i'm going for my entire statement into the record simply. this is the same old story, just a new chapter we have heard year after year that we need more flexibility for medicaid partners at the state level. my governor of texas has sent a letter at the appropriate time and he points out in texas on medicaid will be 25% of the entire budget and over the next 10 years it will cost an additional $27 billion in state matches to the federal government. so this is a very good hearing. i look forward to listening to three governors today working with all governors and if it stays to try to find a solution to help maintain this program and continue to benefit package, but also find a way to impact the cost. thank you, mr. chairman for the hearing. >> i get the remainder of my time to dr. burgess. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to thank the chairman for his commitment to listening to the states of this exercise because it is so critical wha

mr. barbour. so you can understand my brooklyn accent and i can understand yours. i want to ask you a couple questions. i didn't cheer you respond about tort reform. you don't want federal tort law as he perceived her lap. >> about the question was what happened when they did this in our state? and it's been very, very beneficial. >> would you agree, i assume you would you don't believe there should be a federal tort, do you? >> i think federal cases or if it's about federal law. >> there's a federal survey now. state law prevails. >> medical malpractice is the state. you don't want federal law to supersede state this. >> i didn't think you did. from the conversation we're having here, you think you have any additional cost of the 42017? are you aware you have no additional cost before the year 2017? >> that's why i said when i was trying to say what the costs were, they are so backloaded. >> to anticipate in the future you have more or fewer for people with u.s. governor? >> advises that the economy we've got now, we're going to have more -- >> it is that your pol

mr. chairman. >> thank you, governor barbour, welcome. >> mr. chairman and members of the committee, first of all, thank you for asking. the first thing that we want to say is thank you. when they were doing the affordable care act, there was a big meeting at the white house of members of congress from both parties and no governors. so thank you to the committee for both republicans and democrats for asking governors what we think. i would like to associate myself with governor herbert's request that the cases from florida and virginia on the constitutionality of the federal act be expedited. it's in our interest to know the answer sooner rather than later. and the thing we hear the most is conflicting opinions from different circuits. we've already seen conflicting opinions at the district court level, conflicting opinions from different circuits that would just compound the problem. so for those of how have any influence on that, we would like to get that question answered sooner rather than later. i'm delighted to be a friend, mr. patrick. ma

. >> governor barbour? >> mr. chairman and members of the committee, first of all, thank you for asking. the first thing we want to say is thank you. when they were doing the affordable care act, there was a big meeting at the white house of the members of congress from both parties and there were no governors. and so thank you to the committee for republicans and democrats for asking the governors what we think. i would like to associate myself with governor herbert's request that the case from florida and virginia on the constitutionality of the federal act be expedited. it's in our interest to the answer sooner rather than later, and the thing we fear the most is conflicting opinions from different circuits. we've already seen conflicting opinions of the court level and from different circuits would just calmed down that problem. so for those of you that have an influence on that, we would like to get that question answered sooner rather than later. my friend the kilpatrick, massachusetts has a state health ins

mr. obama to one term in office? barbour, christy, daniels, gingrich, huckaby, huntsman, palin, pawlenty, perry, romney, ryan, santorum? gallop offered some in sight into the answer. the poll released this week measures which candidate has the strongest support. intensity of support, among republican voters. in other words, which candidate's supporters were the most diehard? gallop calls the survey the positive intensity poll. and it deals with republican presidential candidate images, coming in first former arkansas republican governor mike huckaby. second, minnesota congresswoman michelle bachman. question, is that value in having positive intensity at this stage of the contest? >> sure. but the one name who was not mentioned was john huntsman, who was only known for 20% of the people and has 14% intensity. which is really very good for a guy just come back from china. >> i mentioned his name. >> i know -- saying it's not mentioning. >> when i say that, mention with the kind of adulation that you would normally attribute t

there were three, governor duvall patrick of massachusetts was one and governor haley barbour of mississippi and mr. speaker was the other. governor bashor was saying a couple -- governor barbour instituted a program in the state of mississippi that would make sure people on the medicaid program were eligible, they deserve to be there. they weren't eating somebody else's lunch, as the expression would go, they weren't illegal immigrants, their income wasn't too high to make them eligible for this safety net program. and of course, mr. speaker, as we all know, thank goodness, income from year to year can get better. we're still waiting for that to happen. i think obamacare and some of this other policies that we're seeing over the last four years is preventing that from happening. but -- so governor barbour would make people come and face to face verify that they were still eligible from year to year. as i understand it, this rule, this maintenance of effort would prohibit -- he's already done it in mississippi, but any other state as an example, to make sure your rolls were clean and you were cover

mr. chairman, i ask unanimous consent that governor quinn's full statement be included in the hearing record. >> without objection so what are. >> thank you. governor barbour, you have talked about the reason that infant mortality rates, et cetera are in mississippi and also you are talking about in terms of medicaid, we have people pull up to the pharmacy window in a bmw and say they can't afford their copayment. first of all, let me say that the federal government has made fraud in medicare and medicaid top priority and has for the first time or resources into doing that. would you say that mississippi uniquely, because other states it's really provider fraud that is the whole cut the fraud that goes on in medicare and medicaid asking for reimbursement of care that really wasn't given. would you say inures date date problem in front? >> congresswomen, my understanding is that's not considered fraud. in the federal rules of the person says they can afford to make a copayment, the provider can challenge it. of course the sad thing about that for a state doesn't save any money. it's the provider who get shorted. i report the providers report to me. it is no

mr. herbert and governor barbour have reached out to relief them of some of the federal mandates. responses they have received have not been encouraging. i look forward to hearing from our witnesses and learning first hand on what the impact of obamacare will be on state programs, on other state and health programs, and also interested in hearing the ideas to provide access to greater numbers of care to people while keeping cost. i'd like to yield one minute to dr. gingrey of georgia. >> new numbers are out on the news is definitely not good. cost of increase by $460 billion in two years. state medicaid cost rose by 300% from 20 billion to $60 billion. can states reform the program or do a better job of screening out individuals who don't belong in order to deal with the crushing costs? no, they can't. obamacare forbidding them from making eligibility changing that might remove people illegally until 2014. can states afford to wait until 2014? rhode island sure can't. the city of providence just sent termination letters to every single teacher it has 2,000 and all in order to give

. >> live saturday possible gop presidential candidates, haley barbour, newt gingrich, mr. santorum, mr. cain, and mrs. bachmann in des moines. >> once again live at the brookings institution. we're standing by for a discussion on the role of civil society in egypt as the country puts together a new government. a constitutional referendum was held last saturday and parliament elections set for june. live discussion getting june way -- getting underway at 1:30 at c-span. early today we got an update from a reporter in libya. >> host: joining us now ms. sly on the "washington post" in tripoli. what's happened in the last couple of hours in libya? >> guest: well, it's pretty quiet here this morning. we don't have much activity here until the night time. last night we had a lot of exposures. i've accounted more that we've had on any previous night. it seems that the strikes have intensified in the capitol last night. >> host: ms. sly, what's it like being in tripoli? where are you staying? are you able to get out of the hotel? do american forces know where the foreign correspon

barbour and mitch daniels. the obama administration's current ambassador to china who is leaving mr. huntsman is looking like he wants to run as well. >>> also in washington, john dickerson, good morning. >> good morning, chris. >> we hear all the names but no one has officially declared anything. newt gingrich, tim pawlenty, rick santorum, why is this important for these potential candidates. >> this event in iowa is with social conservatives. we have heard about tea party backers. social conservatives play an important role in iowa, 60% identified as born again or evangelicals. these candidates will talk about same-sex marriage and abortion. the other key question is these voters want to know are these social issues something candidates talk about all over the country or only at events like this in states like iowa. >> mike huckabee will not be there tonight. last week after oscar winning actress natalie portman getting pret o pregnant out of wedlock. he backtracked saying it was a gaffe on his part. is it a gaffe or a point trying to be made? >> reporter: it is both. mike huckabee