this one is called "the truth about obamacare." how long have you been interested in health care as a professional interest? >> probably, susan, for about 25 years. i grew up in canada, and in the late '80s, we started lookinging at the growing waiting list. then i came to the canada and got the opportunity to get involved in hillarycare, and then, of course, following what's been going on in particular with president obama and obamacare, just totally involved in it. >> host: in the book, you acknowledge that the american health care system was in need of reform. in 2009 when this began to take up the scene. what do you see as the major problem with american health care? >> guest: everyone wanting affordable, accessible, quality health care. that's the goal. and universal coverage. the president wanted universal coverage and to bend the cost curve down. we spend about 17% of the gross domestic product on health care. i would like to see the health care system reformed, my vision though, is not increasing the role in government in h

this one is called "the trutht about obamacare." ho hw long have you been interen inside health care as aprof professional interest? >> guest: um, probably, susan, for about 25 years. i grew up in canada. i worked at the frazier institute, and in the late ph '80s we started looking at the growing waiting lists in canada. then in '91 i came to the u.s. to head up pacific research and got the opportunity to get involved in hillarycare and then, of course, following what's been going on in particular with president obama and obama care, just totallyjust involved in it. >> host: in the book you acknowledge that the american health care system was in need of reform. in 2009 when this really began to take up -- what do you see a. the major problem with the american health care system? >> guest: well, you know,w, e everyone wants affordable,cess accessible, quality health care. . the president, of course,mented universal coverage and bend the cost curve down. we spent about 17% of our gross domestic product on health care. i would like to

they will vote for more debt without repealing obamacare. obamacare must go. but please, not the pretty flowers in the barrel of my musket. we're calling are in this event that tea party woodstock festival. we are urging nothing but peaceful -- get that down, peaceful -- non-violent your relentless pursuit of all house republicans who have gone wobbling for more national debt. the tea party movement opposes any house gop action on the debt ceiling, and we oppose more debt, the tea party. but because i know our people very well, i marched with them, i rallied with them all over, i think it is safe to say that the tea party movement as a whole might possibly, just possibly, for give boehner and house republicans a small bump in the debt ceiling and we might even forget to get our legislative score card printed. how does that happen? if obamacare is repealed before hand. we might make a deal. fiat think tains including cato, heritage, and others agreed on the top 10 things the house gop needs to fix -- obamacare and boehner and ryan have ignored it all. we might

i read the obamacare act and i i read the obamacare act and i see a lot of rationing, although it isut that way. i see paul ryan's plan, although not exactly palatable to me and other folks in the 45- to 50- year-old age group. my second question is the congressional game playing going on. it seems odd to me that we as a country are still calling it -- are rare still talking about cuts for seniors and survival services as a country. our leaders -- obama just talking about aid for egypt, at age for afghanistan and the wars there and in iraq, and aid for libya. enough is enough. the time has come for us to take care of ourselves a little bit, to look at what are we getting for our investment in these countries. i really look forward to hearing your comments on that. host: you'll hear from democrats and republicans that that is a small percentage of the overall budget, but you still support cutting that aid? caller: i am sorry, i couldn't hear you. host: both democrats and republicans still argue that foreign aid is a small percentage of the overall budget, that the bulk of it is the mi

and that's what is in the obamacare. so i'm glad we have an opportunity to correct this legislative error. we must gain fiscal control over our government program starting with these exchanges. whether it's recapturing wasteful stimulus program dollars, eliminating fraud, or using the appropriation process to set budgetary priorities rather than mandatory spending, we must all exercise fiscal restraint and that's what this bill does. just because we follow greece in democratcy, does not mean we should follow them into bankruptcy. the chair: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from new jersey. mr. pallone: i yield now to the gentleman from new york, 1 1/2 minutes, to mr. engel. the chair: the gentleman from new york. mr. engel: i thank my friend for yielding to me. i rise in strong opposition to this bill. as ronald reagan used to say, there you go again. and then my republican colleagues go again. we sat through days and days of this in the health subcommittee and the energy and commerce full committee. this

as far as this health care, obamacare, as the republicans say. am a democrat, a black man who has lived in the united states for all my life. i'm 63. healthcare has been going up since it started. it goes up every year. they go up when they want to go up. here is another point i would like to make. the republicans, especially this cato institute -- you keep saying you are not right wing, but to me you are right wing. i call right wing -- i call ron paul right wing, and he is a libertarian. i'm trying to say to myself, who is going to vote for a republican? i do not think blacks will vote for republicans this year or next year. i do not think muslims will vote for republicans. i do not think the mexicans will vote for republicans. with the paul ryan budget on that voucher plan, i do not think the old people are going to vote for republicans. i'm trying to figure out -- i went to the herman cain rally when he announced he was going to be president because i lived down the street from there. i sat on a bench and watched for two hours of people going

i did obamacare in massachusetts. but i only did it at the state level and i believe in the 10th amendment. and it comes oument in the campaign for the senate when he was trying to beat teddy kennedy and the good race he ran he was for a national mandate just like obama. so what's he going to do? >> he's stuck. he had to make a choice between being the ultimate flip-flopper and rejecting his entire past. and saying, you know, i'm going to have to try to stick with it. very, very difficult. but there's a lot of hypocrisy among the other republicans. "the wall street journal" which clobbered him on this issue, a few years ago, they were for an individual mandate or at least graduated -- congratulated mitt on what he was doing. newt gingrich used to be a big proponent of it. chris: use that term lightly. and the flip-flop on marriage three or in our and wife leaving husband and coming back and dumping the kids, three years, coming back later, those kind of flip-flops, what are worse? >> i think -- the defining issue is i

street, obamacare, my latest favorite, the epa now wants dairy farmers to file emergency plans to deal with spilled milk. as one farmer said, i would just call it the key. it is bureaucrats gone wild and it is time to balance the regulatory burden against the unemployment burden, time to ensure that our tax code is competitive with our competitors, that our job creators quit paying $4 a gallon for gasoline. it is about empowerment, about confidence. this will create jobs, this is the republican solution. i am proud to be part of our house republican plan for america's job creators. and now, the vice chairman of dart conference -- our conference. >> since the founding of america, and every generation has expanded opportunity for their children and grandchildren, and yet all across this country right now,

you look at the obamacare bill. i think there's 700 times the words -- "the secretary shall" appears in that bill. you're giving power away from the people who were elected to actually make decisions about how government should operate and you're yielding them to the executive branch and worse yet to the bureaucracies within that branch. and so the best answer to this is not the -- to mess around with the regulatory system but let's get back to simpler bills, no g three, four, five, 6,000-page bills. but talk about getting simple bills that actually force congress to make decisions. when the lnrb, what's an unfair labor practice? well, read that law. you have no idea what an unfair labor practice is. so let's get congress back to the job of actually articulating what the laws should be and not yielding that authority over to the executive branch. [applause] >> senator tomko burn has called earmarks the gateway -- senator tom coburn has called earmarks the gateway drug to -- and they explode spending and even when re

and big government tyranny, which obamacare represents.the first act of tyranny since the british were kicked out of this country. on march 1, 2010. last december i was elected by my fellow tea party leaders to chair the tea party national convention this september in kansas city, kansas. in that capacity i am in touch with virtually every one of the thousands of tea party cell group leaders across the country. i know how they will think and feel since they are the real grassroots folks that ride the bus is 10 hours up here to d.c. and put their last paycheck to do it. but right now we are very upset about those that we sit here in 2010, just last november come to service in the u.s. house. during the fall of 2010 the house republican minority promised us 100 billion in cuts for the 2011 budget. most of the huge house gop freshman class, while they were candidates, also promised us they would not raise the national debt ceiling as the current cap of 14.294 trillion. based on these promises, the tea party 2010 efforts swept house republican

that was something that is lost in obamacare.hen i ask people what they dislike most about the president's plan, but typically years that they say that obamacare represents a government takeover of health care and i do not like it. i think they are right. what we did in our state was quite different. it was a more modest proposal, if you will. we were not having government takeover and run health care. instead, we're trying to find a way interstate who did not have insurance in short. and it was also to make sure -- insured. and it was also to make sure that people who had insurance would not have to worry that, if they changed jobs, but they would lose their insurance if, for instance, they had developed a condition or sickness during the time that they had been previously insured. there are some other differences. under obamacare, taxes are raised by about $500 billion over 10 years. we did not raise taxes. and there were $500 billion in medicare cuts -- not to bring down the cost of medicare and make the federal budget more ba

that's obamacare, mr. speaker. and it clearly is. and the gentleman seemed to have forget whan they all worked together to do to america over the last 19 months. they worked to impose obamacare on 300 million americans, 306 or so million americans and they come on the floor tonight to talk about the effort on the part of republicans to try to save this republic from the voracious appetite of government . government. the voracious shark of government that feeds upon the suftnence of the american people. that puts into debt every single person, every man, woman and child in america and puts the mortgage on their heads the day they are born. last fall, i talked about my grandmother, my most recent granddaughter, reagan ann king. she's about 6 or 7 months old now. on the day she was born, her share of the national debt was $44,000. welcome to america, welcome to the world, welcome into life. you owe uncle sam $44,000 and the interest is building. the interest is building. and this young lady is going to have to work a long time to pay th

obamacare raided that program to the tune of a half trillion dollars that was stopped after the medicare i was very curious that was the corporate part of medicare it actually increases medicare solvency for and number of years and increase the number of people who are being covered is a big portion of medicare that is done by the private sector and you guys kind of ignore that the fact beyond that medicare and the i know there was it was yasser been drilled in by republicans. right here just. my take on this is that a i'm astounded both you guys are still defending paul ryan i'm just you know it's like you should it's like this is going down with the ship and and i think if republicans don't wake up and as newt gingrich tried to i think you're going to have a real problem twenty summit republicans is a drag potential nominee to head up the consumer financial protection bureau elizabeth warren through the mud this week in a congressional hearing baselessly calling her a liar and squabbling over monday in things like scheduling for hearings take a look. at this warrant it was a simple req

that was something that is lost in obamacare. when i ask people what they dislike most about the president's plan, but typically years that they say that obama care represents a government takeover of health care and i do not like it. i think they are right. what we did in our state was quite different. it was a more modest proposal, if you will. we were not having government takeover and run health care. instead, we're trying to find a way interstate who did not have insurance in short. and it was also to make sure that people who had insurance would not have to worry that, if they changed jobs, but they would lose their insurance if, for instance, they had developed a condition or sickness during the time that they had been previously insured. there are some other differences. under obamacare, taxes are raised by about $500 billion over 10 years. we did not raise taxes. and there were $500 billion in medicare cuts -- not to bring down the cost of medicare and make the federal budget more balanced, but to fund obamacare. now the

he passed obamacare.hoice will be obamacare versus the republican vision for the future of healthcare. the choice will be on the debt and deficit, which is a bigger issue than medicare in particular. which party do you believe is serious about the fact that we are going broke? if republicans can't can vince the country in 2012, "a" -- can't convince the country in 2012, "a" we're going broke; "b," we're serious about it. then they deserve to lose. >> the big difference between you and me is you trust the insurance companies cho have been abusive of people. secondly, republicans for all the talk about oh, the deficit, the debt. we have to be serious. entitlement reform refused to consider raising taxes. >> juan, serious democrats who in think tanks who want reform trust the private, trust making it more of a private system than is it now. >> why would anybody trust insurance companies? this is a because to me. >> -- this is a puzzle to me. >> but the problems are more than a decade away. this is a huge exp

it will accelerate the implementation of obamacare. we believe more employers will dump their people into this health care exchange and have subsidies go of far more than we are estimating today. if you take the tax exclusion, that will exacerbate that effect. bowles-simpson will make that worse. it will accelerate obamacare, increase exchange subsidies driving up the deficit. i got a letter from the cbo say that they believe the president also health care law will exacerbate the deficit and the debt under more realistic assumptions that they believe are more likely to occur. they did not do anything to address medicare or medicaid. the health care law added 1/3 to the eligibility. it did not do anything fundamentally to fix medicare. price controls do not work. the 1997 agreement was good bipartisan agreement. and they pulled back those savings and restored those savings except for the sdr. and we passed that every single year. those are just holes in the sand. ist the president's log does due more price controls -- resident's law doe

thank you. >> let me explain my view about obamacare. out of the 2800-page bill, there are probably 200 could pages. i didn't trust the washington staff so deeply that i would never let them partially repeal the bill. you have no idea at 3:00 in the morning what they will slip into it. i would say repeal the whole bill and then start hearings and there are pieces that are worth looking at and we should look at them. frankly, there are other ways of solving these things that are more powerful that should be looked at as ways of solving these things. my only goal is, i carry around a slogan that i think is the most important governing slogan of the next 20 years. it is a little on the head but i will use it to explain this health problem. it is to plus two equals four. we made a movie about pope john paul ii going to poland. it was just recognized by the vatican is one of the three best documentaries on john paul ii. when we got there, we found he has started a big fight with the soviet empire. for 10 years, the polish people were constant

that's before obamacare. you lay on obamacare, we've estimate is going to be another $2 billion by 2022 which will drive us up to 27, 20% of the state budget. this is unsustainable. we don't have that kind of money in our general fund to continue to put that much over a quarter of our entire budget into medicaid. many states are over that 21%. they are at 26, 27, 28% every governor in the country knows medicaid expenses are a huge challenge. and so what we all believe are what most governors, if you all will give us the ability and take off the shackles about so many of the rules and regulations, give us the ability to innovate on what kind of program or incentive for self health care, and responsible for their own care, a series of incentives and disincentives and co-pays and some other things like that that we can put in place for medicaid, managed care and some of the other things we would like to do, we can save money. the federal government can block grant it and just have made a small cost of living inc

s systematically violent human-rights because we passed obamacare and tester by the towards recognizing the international human rights organization to and this falls into the category of reassurances. as i find it bother some and i think that would have been an additional reason to vote against the obamacare of people argue it is required the international human rights obligations and animals, and i wish i had a dollar for every time someone from the academia has argued that what governor walter did in reviewing some of the old public union rights actually was a violation of international human rights vary widely argued and turn up in litigation. so there's a pattern here. much as it was reached in the 1970's that the u.s. constitution required a properly read court enforcement of the agenda of "the new york times" editorial page from somalia is increasingly argued the international human rights is the proper way though somewhat vague as to how this will happen requires the same "new york times" editorial page agenda. it gives the government more to do, and in that it is very much like

is that if something is meaningful that is achieved, whether it is spending tax or repeal of obamacare or some other form of fiscal discipline, that might be a worthwhile trade. there is not a lot of confidence will negotiate with acumen. >> debt is an immoral and insidious tax on the future of america. as i said. in this constitution, it says for ourselves and our posterity. that means the future. we must not place a tax, and immoral tax on our children. >> what kind of spending caps might be an acceptable trade- off? >> you have all sorts of things. the tax limitation balanced budget amendment. senator corker has a tap fact that organized -- updates. you have obamacare. you have generic spending caps. there are different ideas out there. my job is not to say which one isjust [no audio] to say which is best are acceptable. during the continuing resolution, they did not get much and that does not bode well for what will happen with the debt limit. >> the markets want to see and standard and poor's in their negative outlook on the u.s. said this. they want to see some meaningful, lastin

but conceptual similarities between what we call "obamacare" and program that he guided in to law inchusetts are too clear, too obvious for everyone. i think it remains around his neck as a millstone. >> chris: nina, the "wall street journal" had an editorial this week that certainly roasted mitt romney. let's put it up on the screen. the debate over obamacare and the larger entitlement state may be the central question of the 2012 election. on that question, mr. romney is compromiseed and not credible." they weren't persuaded by his speech. >> yeah, kimberly. you'll have to address that. >> chris: she will. don't worry. >> i have to do my requisite, my husband is an obama -- excuse me. romney advisor. when i look at this issue with romney, and i said this before and i'll say it again. elections are about choices. the primary election is about a choice. i think healthcare is a problem for romney and will remain a problem for him. if you look at someone like mitch daniels who is the flavor of the month, there are problems with him. criticized fiscal conservative for blowing the budget

but let me say this about obamacare. it was the single worst piece of legislation that's been passed in my time in the senate. >> what about the massachusetts plan? >> the biggest step in the wrong direction for america. i think it needs to be repealed and replaced. we've had that vote earlier this year. i would hope whoever gets elected president, if it's not the current president, would join with us and repealing it totally. >> and finally, this has often been described and often is at this time as a weak republican field. is there someone that is not being discussed that you would like to see get into this race for republican nominee? >> well, on the weak field comment, i'm reminded of how the carter administration was pulling for ronald reagan to be the republican nominee because they thought he would be the easiest to beat. look, one of these candidates who wants the nomination and who is going to work very hard for it and run through this gauntlet is going to look a lot better than any of these people look right no

it accelerates the imposition of obamacare. if you take away the tax exclusion for individuals, we believe that more and more employers dump their people into the health exchange and have subsidies go up far more than we estimated today. if you take away the tax exclusion, that exacerbates that effect. we believe that the sumpson makes it worse because it accelerates obamacare, increase exchange subsidies, driving up the deficit. i got a letter from the cbo two months ago saying they under more realistic assumptions they believe that the president's health care law will exacerbate the debt and deficit, actually add to it under more realistic assumptions they believe are more likely to occur, and it didn't do anything to address medicare or medicaid. it added a third to the eligibility standards, and it didn't really do anything fundamentally to fix medicare, and i don't see it as the fix to medicare. i think that's more shared scarcity, price controlling. price controlling doesn't work. it was a good bipartisan agreement, but i

the obamacare waiver corruption must stop. if some americans deserve exemption from a bad law, all americans do. what are the waivers and who is asking for them? >> guest: so far we've seenve waivers to two differentth provisions in this law. one is the requirement that americans purchase unlimited coverage on an annual basis so that an insurance company can not tell you, can notel set a limit on your coverage, i'm sorry, lower, than $750,000 but eventually that will be phased out, therel will be no limits on number of claims a covered person can file with an insurance company in s a given year. that costs money when you require people to purchase more coverage.on that will increase their premiums. and so, what a lot of people are doing is going to the administration asking can you please waive this provision because it will increase our premiums soma much we can't afford it. there is also a requirement in the law that insurance companies spend no less than 80% of premium revenue on claims.im on medical care plus quality impro

every american should have a waiver from obamacare. nobody should get a waiver or everybody should get a waiver. picking and choosing is a violation of the declaration of independence. we are endowed by our creator. this is the crux of the american system. we're endowed by our creator, with certain unalienable rights. what does that mean? it means that power comes from god, to each one of you personally. you are personally sovereign. you loan power to the state. the state never loans power to you. obama believes in the european model. washington decides we obey. we believe in the american model, which is the power ultimately rests with the citizen, which is why the constitution begins, "we the people." doesn't say, we the judges or bureaucrats or politicians. doesn't even say we the news media. and that means that as the republican nominee, i will have a contract with america. it will have seven bills and a tenth amendment enforcement act to take the constitution and return power to the states and the people thereof and move it become

let me start by explaining my view about obamacare.i think out of a 2800-page bill there are probably 200 pretty good pages. but i distrust the washington staff so deeply that i would never let them partially repeal the bill. because you have no idea at 3:00 in the morning what they're going to slip into it. and so i would say repeal the whole bill and then start hearings, and there are pieces that are worth looking at, and we ought to look at it. and i think there are things, frankly, there are other ways of solving some of these things that are even more powerful that should be looked at as ways of solving these things. so my only goal is -- i carry around a slogan that i think is the most important governing slogan of the next 20 years. it's a little bold, it's a little on the edge, but i'm going to use it to explain this health problem. it's two plus two equals four. [laughter] now, we got this because we made a movie about pope john paul ii going to poland in 1979 called nine days that changed the world. and -- which, by the way,

we have to get rid of obamacare. the other thing is that i really think that this president is giving -- doing this country a tremendous disservice. the study should have given his birth certificate to use your -- believe it or not, i am really proud of what i did getting him to produce it. believe me. [applause] but it is sort of the same thing. we're going through all of these courts systems. they are in virginia and all over the place. why does he not a lot just to go to the supreme court? you will save a year and maybe more than a year. i know people that are going absolutely crazy with their business because they're doing this very, very, very complicated restructuring on the assumption that obamacare happens. and if it does not happen, they have to go all the way back. this is thousands of millions of businesses in this country. why do not the various legal entities involved, headed by the president, in all fairness -- why does he not less it -- let his people go directly to the supreme court? win or lose, at l

first about obamacare. i am disabled. i cannot afford to pay my medicare premium. yous people think that' -- can afford to pay the fine. going back to the old days with prisons. the budget deficit. congress is making over $100,000 a year. gas is $4 a gallon. starts taxing the rich more than the middle class -- start taxing the rich. those are my comments for the day. guest: i think central to this election will be the economy and the economics. i think ancillary to that point is going to be the issue of health care, because of the costs. his health care premium even on medicare and medicaid is a problem for him. he has to get to the doctor which means he has to put gas in the car. that is a problem. whether you're looking at a budgetary process or through how we begin to redistribute the burden is part of the challenge that the hill has to face. yesterday with the number, $14.3 trillion. the debate is whether we raise that number so we do what -- raise more money. that is a real sticking point, regardless of your political affiliation. the bottom line is the same -

now you might ask, what is the independent advisory board on obamacare? it was created by the democrats' health care bill. it's a 15-member panel of unelected advisors that would make binding recommendations on how to reduce medicare spending when spending is projected to exceed a certain level. effectively, their recommendations had the force of law without congressional intervention to replace the cost -- to replace the cuts that they might suggest. and that under the law would take a 60% majority. aupbd know that -- and you know that's very difficult, to get 60 votes in this body for any one thing. that law says that the board cannot make decisions that directly relate to premiums, deductibles or kpoeuplts that medicare -- co-payments that medicare beneficiaries pay. it says the board can't change the eligibility criteria for medicare benefits. so what can the board do, you may ask. it's going to zero in on provider payments, doctor payments. so i want to repeat a statistic i quoted earlier, because after the payment review board gets done, you're goin

we have to get rid of obamacare. it is a disaster. if we do not care of obamacare, i have six friends who are in business. of the six, two are going to close their business. another pair are thinking about it. they're saying they cannot afford obamacare. we cannot do it. these are big guys. they employ a lot of people. they have good companies. they're fantastic people. they're thinking about closing. a couple of them went to wharton with me. i never heard this. we have to get rid of obamacare. i think the president is doing this country a tremendous disservice. just like he should've given his birth certificate three years ago, i am proud of what i did getting him to produce a. -- it. it is sort of the same thing. they are in virginia, all over the place. why doesn't he allowed to go to the supreme court? he will save a year and maybe more. i know people that are going crazy with their business because they're doing this complicated restructuring on the assumption that obamacare happens. if it does not, they have to

for instance, there's no obamacare option. there is no public insurance option that we are even discussing here. what is being discussed is a marketplace in which individuals, primarily those who work in small businesses or are self-employed, will have access to choose from the private policy of their choice. according to the congressional digit office, under this republican proposal, two million fewer americans will be enrolled in exchanges in 2015. the congressional budget office also says that h.r. 1213 will result in higher premiums in the exchange. again, a bill that is delivering higher premiums for american citizens. hardly, hardly the outcry i have heard on the stump. i had the chance to have public meetings in the last two weeks back in my district as many members of congress have. my constituents, mr. speaker, did not request that we deliver higher health insurance premiums. they wanted us to deal with the deficit. they wanted us to deal with jobs and the economy. not a single constituent of mine asked for higher hea

it was called something different then, in the construction phase of obamacare. but whatever you call it, today of course we understand it is ipab, independent patient advisory board, i call it ibad, independent bureaucratic absolute dictators. these unelected 15 people that can literally and will as the gentlewoman from new york just said, dr. hayworth, that they will have the ability come 2014 to start making these cuts and to make them where the biggest growth area and cost is. well, mr. speaker, we all know, they say that there will be no rationing. well, you can say it's not rationing but if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck and looks like a duck, it's a dufpblgt and it is rationing. and what will happen -- duck. and it is rationing. and what will happen, we know it, we health care providers have spent, what, 500 years of clinical experience in the aggregate, we know exactly what these bureaucrats will do. they'll say that if someone is above a certain age, you know, let's pick one, say if you're 65 years old and you come down with leukemia and lym

with your support, we will work to appeal obamacare. i promise you, we will stop the raising of the debt ceiling, and defend our friend, israel. host: minnesota representative michele bachmann in a video message to supporters yesterday. that is from her website. andy barr, that certainly sounds like a political speech. she is talking about keeping president obama as a one-term president. guest: she is always doing politics. at the same time, she's raising money for her congressional reelection. she is constantly in the mode of raising money and working politics. in terms of the rhetoric we hear from her there, is no difference than the rhetoric we would have heard from her one year ago, whether it be a -- no matter the function, she has one message and has been very effective in terms of building an organization and making money. whether she can transition that nationally, we do not know yet. on her own stage, she raised a crazy amount of money for what her race was, which was a totally uncompetitive reelection campaign. she is in prett

which i think was quite reasonable, and he had a chart showing the defense between his plan and obamacare. what he should have said is, "i it did not work, i would not do it again." that is not how he puts it, and there was no other way around it, i think. >> no good deeds unpunished. >> he has a bigger problem. he sounds dishonest when he is being honest. there is something about him that just sounds funny, even when he is trying to be non- phony. he sounds like he is pandering even as he does that. >> the other thing is that because he has changed on so many other positions -- abortion, civil unions, things like that -- because he changed his position on those, he can i just do what "the wall street journal" editorial-page wanted to do, which was apologize. he made actually an extremely articulate argument for why a mandate is necessary -- is the only way to keep the system: date for itself -- whole and pay for itself. >> marc, what you think? >> the massachusetts health-care plans the is the signature achievement of his life. he cannot walk away from it, the same way that tim pawlenty

you have obamacare. just [no audio] to say which is best are acceptable. during the continuing resolution, they did not get much and that does not bode well for what will happen with the debt limit. >> the markets want to see and standard and poor's in their negative outlook on the u.s. said this. they want to see some meaningful, lasting, and significant -- that was their word. i call it durable and medium and long-term correction to the course that we're on. right now, we're looking at a trillion dollar deficit as far as the eye can see. let me add a couple of little comments. i am in the private sector. we were here before this. bear stearns kamala lehman brothers, wachovia, they were taken out with accusatory language about reckless behavior. if the u.s. to read was a bank, the fdic would close and down friday night. they have run their fiscal books in an awful manner. what is interesting is when i have discussions with politicians and some in the leadership will have talked to, they are saying we need a 10 or 15 or 20 or 25 years to fix this. we canno

chairman, among the 2,400 pages of obamacare, the last congress created $105 billion in secret slush funds that can be used to advance the political goals of president obama and his administration without oversight, congressional oversight. at a time when our country is facing financial ruin, my concern is, how much damage to our national budget the white house can do with these funding streams? the time for blank checks is over. the time for leadership is now. section 5508 of obamacare provides a $230 million direct appropriation for teaching health centers residency programs. h.r. 1216 would simply convert the direct appropriations into an authorization of appropriations. the legislation allows the teaching health centers to receive funding through the normal appropriations process with proper congressional oversight. mr. chairman, many members of this congress have supported medical education. i certainly count myself among them. including graduate medical education for children hospitals program. however, in her testimony at the energy and commerce subcommittee this year, h.h.s.

>> guest: obamacare. before obamacare there was a rally, and nancy pelosi orchestrated, i guarantee you, this is my positiveness but it's pretty much undeniable when you see what happened. we started to get the word out that barney frank was called a bad word to describe a homosexual on twitter. people wrote about it. well, i can't believe barney frank was called by the tea party people. they wanted to have that behavior from the tea party. they'd never gotten it but this time they got it and one time somebody called barney frank the f word and then we heard that a black congressman were called the inward and the next thing you know the media picks up on it and after two years of trying to find a racist incident or bad incident -- >> host: they created one. >> guest: -- they created one. >> host: i don't want to interrupt you, andrew brietbard shows his sincerity and care about this and offered members of the congressional black caucus $100,000 if they could prove in any instance where they were called th

if obamacare is repealed before hand. we might make a deal. think tanks including heritage, kato, and the american center for policy analysis agreed on the top things house republicans need to fix, including obamacare. another if. we might be in a forgiving mood if the entitlements get fixed beforehand. everyone agrees that fixes are necessary. duh. so why does paul ryan's budget deny these outflow fixes for a decade. $100 billion. were we supposed to get that this year? that is the amount the house leadership and later denied to the tea party in fiscal year 2011. if the president does not like it, let him figure out what to prioritize -- and there is a lot he can prioritize -- and want to cut when behalf have stops running out. that figure also approaches the ball park of a month of u.s. car when. $1 billion. -- a month of u.s. borrowing. after $100 billion cut, we will meet with them again and talk about the next $100 billion. if at least half of discretionary spending gets caught, most of it either unconstitutional, and spain -- unsustainab

. >> many people say the mitt romney reforms is a lot better than obamacare. >> reporter: but before that debate, he has to convince conservatives in his own party that his plan is different. chuck todd, nbc news, washington. >>> big news to report tonight in the fight against aids. researchers have found beyond question, they say, that treating aids patients with anti-hiv drugs early not only helps the patient but also dramatically lowers the chances of spreading the virus to a partner. one of the nation's leading aids experts today told nbc news these findings are a game changer. >> i think this takes us a bit closer to getting a better control over the spread of this hiv pandemic. because the pandemic continues to amplify because we're not doing a very good job in preventing new infections. this is a very important step toward improving our prevention of new hiv infections. >> dr. anthony fauci says because of the results of this study, health authorities around the world may change their guidance and urge doctors to offer medication to aids patients sooner rather than later, befo

in their haste toass obamacare last congress, the democrat leadership in washington neglected to include any adequate prohibition on abortion funding. the president did issue an executive order to support the intentions of hyde, unfortunately, the order merely reiterated the accounting gimmick in the health care bill. the esident's own chief of staff at that time wou later comment on how he thought the idea for this executive order so that they could, quote, allow the stupak amendment not to exist by law but by executive order, end quote. wh the president signed that bill into law, he allowed a massive expansion in federal funding for abortion. in a time of great federal debt, the last thing the american people want is to have their taxpayer dollars used on the morally objectionable practice of abortion. according to a 2007 report, if the hyde amendment was removed from law, the number of abortions would likely increase by 25%. the study reveals what is common sense. an increase in funding for abortions will directly lead to an increase in the number of abortions. many of my colleagues o

gingrich also likened the ryan plan to obamacare. >> i don't think right wing social engineering is any more desirable than left wing social engineering. i don't think imposing radical change from the right or the left is a very good way for a free society to operate. >> question -- why did gingrich malign paul ryan, eleanor clift? >> well, i don't know -- if i call it maligning, gingrich spoke the truth. the ryan plan is radical and right wing social engineering and the public hates it and now the republicans have made it a test of purity. you've got to support that. it's great politics for democrats because people do not want to end medicare as we know it. but actually, bigger fun story with gingrich is his $500,000 bill at tiffany's. >> $250,000. >> he whittled it down? >> i don't know, but that was the range i saw. >> jon due wart it's because he's buying diamond -- stewart said it's because he's buying diamond wedding rings in bulk. >> is that fair? >> it's a story people will remember. we need to have some fun in politics. >> he's what happened to newt john. >> on the bill? >> tif

gingrich also likened the ryan plan to obamacare. >> i don't think right wing social engineering is any more desirable than left wing social engineering. i don't think imposing radical change from the right or the left is a very good way for a free society to operate. >> question -- why did gingrich malign paul ryan, eleanor clift? >> well, i don't know -- if i call it maligning, gingrich spoke the truth. the ryan plan is radical and right wing social engineering and the public hates it and now the republicans have made it a test of purity. you've got to support that. it's great politics for democrats because people do not want to end medicare as we know it. but actually, bigger fun story with gingrich is his $500,000 bill at tiffany's. >> $250,000. >> he whittled it down? >> i don't know, but that was the range i saw. >> jon due wart it's because he's buying diamond -- stewart said it's because he's buying diamond wedding rings in bulk. >> is that fair? >> it's a story people will remember. we need to have some fun in politics. >> he's what happened to newt john. >> on the bill? >> tif

and taxpayer funding of abortion could recommence in the future under obamacare. so before we vote on this bill it is important for members to ask themselves the real question. does abortion take the life of a child? if it does not, then this is simply a budgetary issue. but if abortion really does kill a little baby, then those of us sitting here in these chambers of freedom are presiding over the greatest human genocide in the history of humanity. some of it may be financed in the future, madam speaker, with taxpayer dollars over which we will have had direct control. madam speaker, our founding fathers believed there were certain self-evident truths worth holding on to. the greatest of those in their mind was the transcendent meaning of this gift of god called human life. our constitution says no person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law. the care of human life and its happiness and not its destruction is the chief and only object of good government. madam speaker, protecting the lives and constitutional rights of our fel