the centerpiece of obamacare is the set of government price controls that obamacare imposes on health insurance. price controls that tell insurance carriers they must charge healthy and sick people of a given age the same premiums. health care wonks call them rating restrictions or community rat rating. they would rather the public not recognize them as price controls. the rest of obamacare including the individual mandate can fairly be described as attempts to undo the damage that these price controls cause. for example, these government price controls are so destablizing, they cause markets to collapse because they increase premiums for healthy consumers, that healthy people leave the market together. it is slowly collapsing in another 17 states because obamacare imposed price controls on those markets. the individual mandate is an attempt to undo the destablizing effects by forcing healthy people to pay inflated premiums. millions of households won't be able to afford the coverage and could still save thousands of dollars by dropping coverage and paying the penalty. so obamacare's

ian pearl is a victim of obamacare-style price controls. shelby rogers is another victim of obamacare-style price controls. their insurance companies competed to avoid them because they already operate in markets subject to obamacare-style price controls. obamacare includes more mandates and regulations than programs whose purposes is to stop insurance carriers from doing what the price controls force them to do to survive. obamacare creates three separate programs that attempt to tax all health plans and subsidize those to get the most ian pearls and the most shelby rogers. obamacare regulates health insurance marketing, benefit design, network adequacy, plan offerings, each plan's service area, the amount the carriers spend on administration, all to try to prevent carriers from doing what its price controls reward them for doing. none of this will work any more than the individual mandate is going to work. the biggest of these programs is the so-called risk adjustment program, and as health economist henry aaron and austin frekt have expl

for the next ten years, and then with obamacare in place. and the difference between those two projections reveals how much additional spending any specific state would incur as a result of implementing obamacare. this methodology captures all the different states, policies, their specific demographic conditions and the environment factors that they have. so bottom line i've done the estimates so far for about a dozen states. i'm not showing all of them. some of them are not really ready for prime time as of yet. what i'm showing is the top five states california through texas. those are the five states who are the largest population wise in the u.s. and then a bunch of other states, some more rural, some more urban, some are sparsely populated. a smattering of states of all kinds from the west coast to the east coast, central, midwestern, and so on. the first column of numbers is the number of pre-obamacare enrollees that i estimate or i project for the year 2014. so these are projections of medicare enrollees using my methodology, shown fo

three million americans hangs in the balance i will conservatives felt the nation's uninsured if obamacare is struck down and because brothers are again destroying our democracy and taking away your power over the federal government are they flooding politics and money and buying out washington without anybody knowing. you know this today was the final day of arguments before the supreme court to determine the constitutionality of obamacare yesterday's bruising interrogation by the five right wing justices of the high court but the cornerstone of president obama's health reform law the individual mandate in jeopardy and today the high court heard arguments to determine just how much of the health reform law should be struck down if the individual mandate itself is ruled unconstitutional bigger picture here is this the supreme court may be on the verge of ripping out more pieces of our nation's social safety net a social safety net that has allowed a middle class to take hold in america since f.d.r. created it with his new deal and also to thrive and generate enormous wealth for our economy

we will repeal obamacare.plause] >> seniors are going to be very affected by this law and everyone of us will eventually be a senior, so we are all going to be affected by this. next, jim martin. [applause] >> no, it is not ted. thank you to the tea party patriots for organizing this. i am jim martin. i am chairman of the 60-plus association representing over 60 million senior citizens. [applause] >> seasoned citizens, as somebody said. for 20 years, we have been the conservative alternative to the liberal aarp, the group that puts its arms around the president and gave him political coverage by endorsing obama- care. aarp likes to tout harry belafonte. he is so far to the left he makes president obama look conservative. pat boone likes to tout his friendship with ronald reagan. aarp -- the association against retired persons they say they are a listening tour, but did date -- did they listen to the voices of millions of lives? now, they did not care if they turned their hearing aids off. if they turn their ba

abolish obamacare. abolish obamacare. and we're going to alter the occupant of the white house come november. so i say to all of you because the mainstream media and the liberals -- >> ah booing me? they want you to believe that we cannot do this. and i am here to tell you, stay inspired. stay inspired. that we can do this. stay inspired that we will repeal obama care. stay inspired that we are going to change washington, d.c. and i want you to stay inspired with the spirit of the bumble beee. you see, when i was in college, i learned that the bumble beis not supposed to fly. you and i know that the bumble bee flies. you will see some this spring flying around. we know that the bumble bee flies because we see the bumble bee flying. but i was a mathematics and physics major in college and we studied something called the eications in motion. we study about the fact that if you take the equations of motion and you measure the arrow dynamic parameters of the bumble bee, that little fat body and those little flappy wings and m

obamacare. obamacare.obamacare. obamacare. >> in case you were counting, milt romney used the term five times in a minute at a campaign stop in san diego yesterday. but in an e-mail to supporters, obama campaign manager jim messina writes, happy birthday, obamacare. if you're tired of the other side throwing around that word like it's an insult, then join me in sending a message that we're proud of it. joined by howard bragman and chairman of 15 minutes public relations. hey, howard, how are you this morning? >> good morning, chris. >> so jim messina, senior adviser david axelrod put it even more bluntly. he said in an e-mail, "hell yeah, i like obamacare." this is such a politically charged word, though. could they actually shift the strategy? could they shift the message? >> they don't have a choice. obamacare has become a dirty word in politics, and for all his achievements, obama did not do a very good job of selling his health care plan. there are a lot of things that really benefit the average americ

take obamacare and stick it where the sun don't shine. then have it removed by eye doctor you have to pay yourself because he's not in network. and, folks, i am not the only one who knows this. >> i believe the supreme court will strike downtown obamacare individual mandate by a 5 of 4 vote. >> it's going to be 5 of 4. if i am wrong i will come on and play your clip and apologize for being an idiot. >> stephen: no need, papa bear. ( laughter ). of course, the linchpin of the this legislative obama-nation, is the health care mandate. and it's not the good kind of mandate where two buddies play racquetball together and recharge over burgers, booze, and a long steam with zero sexual tension. see you next wednesday, kevin. he's a good guy. i don't understand why he can't find a nice girl. you ladies are missing out. he shaves everywhere. ( laughter ). no, this mandate requires all americans to buy health insurance, and, folks, this supreme court battle over health insurance is the biggest case since scopes defeated that monkey. i can't rememb

and if we don't repeal obamacare and twenty thirteen it will never really be repealed but obamacare obamacare controls one sixth of our economy we can't afford it they're already getting rid of parts of it because it's just not sustainable you can't do it you have just recently you know the democrats are saying the republicans want to kill grandma they want to push her over the cliff well no we don't want to do that we want to take care of our seniors but the fact of the matter is that with the passage of obamacare it took five hundred seventy five billion dollars out of medicare reallocated it to cover the middle class as part of obamacare and we have baby boomers entering the marriage medicare rolls on average of ten thousand per day it's not sustainable we can't continue down this road and the medicare board of trustees issued a report last may and said if medicare is not reforms that it will go bankrupt in twenty to twenty four hour i know you know what i mean i want to go to war before we go to the break here ok but it let's see amy's right ok of it it's still not energizing en

dismantle obamacare. second we will hear from michael tanner. he penned an excellent review of the health care law in "bad medicine: a guide to the real costs and consequences of the health care law". which has been newly updated and revised. last but not least we will hear from grace-marie turner, president of the game in institute. following enactment of the health care law grace-marie turner along with jim carpenter with ethics and policy center, tom miller at the american enterprise institute and art trudy bob moss that of the heritage foundation joined together to publish the book "why obamacare is wrong for america". please help me in welcoming them to heritage today. [applause] >> we will start with our. sally. >> thank you. i am delighted to be here with my friends michael tanner and grace-marie turner as well. with the historic vote the 2700 page patient protection and affordable care act was passed into law on march 23rd, 2010. how fast two years have gone. almost the second anniversary. as nina

obamacare, that is.preme court begins its three-day review of obamacare. and while the epic health care battle rages on, here's one of the many questions being asked. do women have a better deal under the obama health law or not? is obamacare a bad plan for women? here now is women's rights attorney gloria allred and betsy mccaughey, author of "the obama health law." thank you both. betsy mccaughey, some pros. women went to the barricades for decades to prevent the government from being accessing their medicine records. what do you mean? >> and yet this law allows the government to do both, to see what's in your medical records and to dictate to your doctors. under section 1311 of this law, you will be required to be enrolled in a qualified plan, that's the one-size-fits-all government-designed plan, and it says right there in the law that insurers can play only the doctors who do whatever the federal government dictates. that means that your federal government is going to be in charge of your care even

i know the republicans want to go after obamacare. i don't think it's going to work. >> but you me that mitt romney is going to make the case to repeal and replace obamacare. >> nobody is going to believe that 98% of people in massachusetts have health care. i don't care what the small percentage of republicans say. the numbers are overwhelmingly in favor that everybody has insurance. >> the number one issue in the 2010 midterm elections was obamacare. that's the reason -- >> not anymore. not anymore. >> let me get carly fiorina in. carly, welcome back. it's great to have you. i know you're strongly for romney. >> no, i'm actually -- whoa, whoa, whoa. i'm neutral in this primary process. i'm totally focused on the senate. >> this is even better. then tell me neutrally how big a problem mitt romney has got with romneycare, which rick santorum is hanging around his neck every chance he gets, including the victory speech santorum gave last night or the election speech he gave last night. how big a problem is it, carly? >> well, let me ta

so the -- they want obamacare gone. they want the perfect candidate, but if you don't get the perfect candidate we want a candidate that's going to forward our agenda. one of the four nominees will do that. >> jeanine: let's switch gears for a minute. you're just back from israel. >> i am. >> jeanine: you met with the prime minister, netanyahu. do the israelis feel that the united states and the obama administration is still supportive of themor are you sensing some kind of a -- you know, a break there? >> well, i think the israelis see the iranian threat very differently than the united states does, because they fear the shadow of iran on their back, because iran says on a regular basis israel is a curse. it must be cut out, be wiped off the math. israel sees that iran has all the capabilities necessary to build a nuclear bomb and they're looking at taking their facility underground where you can never get at it. well, what are the israelis supposed to do? so they don't want to go into a war with iran, but they also ha

choice to make about our future so what choice should americans be making also the you fight over obamacare heat up in day two of oral arguments before the supreme court or the five right wing justices on the hard court ready to put politics ahead of the health and well being of millions of americans and america is the only democracy in the western world that still uses the death penalty. when will the u.s. government stop same shinning the deaths of its own citizens. need to know this based on the republican budget released last week we know where congressman paul ryan and his republican party want to drag the nation their view of america's future is one in which more than fifty million americans will lose their health insurance this abled and senior citizens can receive the care they need and impoverished families can receive the food assistance they need all the while the top one percent of americans receive a three trillion dollar tax cut that they don't need. in the coming days paul ryan's budget for the one percent will come to a vote before the full house of representatives and it wi

obamacare.ric: i am so thrilled. >> greg: you heart-heart it. >> eric: here is why. march of 2010, obamacare gets signed. a couple of months later, mid-term elections, 63 house seats turn republican net. six senate seat republican net. this one, very, very importantly. 680 state legislatures seat went republican. a record. on the heels of obamacare, you ignited the conservative base, tea party that was born on the heels of obamacare. so whatever happens the moment it s born. >> dana: get greg in here before we run out of time. last week, the congressional budget office came out and said the original scoring of the bill, we were wrong. it's not going to cause $7.6 billion it will be $1.4 trillion. is that noise now at this point? >> greg: it is noise. >> dana: people want it gone. >> greg: they want it gone. except for the people lining up outside the supreme court, i will be one of them, i want to get ruth bader ginsberg to sign my morning after pill. nancy pelosi compared the obama healthcare b

obamacare did cut over a half trillion from medicare. why aren't democrats accused of pushing granny or the cliff. >> you know how upset i'm getting? my eyes are turning red. >> i can see that. >> i'm full of furry and passion. i understand the democrats have done the same thing -- the fact of the matter is, there are-- the obama administration did not sell obamacare well. there are 2.6 million people who as well insurance today who wouldn't have had it. there are 2.3 million people hohave gotten relief and the employers have costeep them on insurance. i am a recipient. i couldn't get insurance because the jerks in the insurance company wouldn't give me insurance because of a pre-existing condition. it's left up to us to sell it. it's a tough sell. >> i think it's going to be a tough sell when you see obama pledging $2500 for a premium, but the opposite has happened and you can see the plans going up, 9 pmpls you can see his medicare and medicaid actuary coming up $300 bill cron in added costs on top, just because of kare-11. how do you

we've had the votes to oppose obamacare, we've had the vote to repeal obamacare, every single republicanse the law in the first place and repeal it later. we know where everybody is. but it's a matter still under discussion. we haven't decided yet. >> senator, i wanted to ask you about the shooting death of trayvon martin. the incident has put a new spotlight on stand your grown laws. i wonder if in light of what happened, if this is time to re-examine those laws and whether or not they need to be changed? in addition, the justice department is now investigating them, based on what you're looking at in this incident, do you agree it's right for the civil rights division to look at it and are you concerned that civil rights laws have been violated? >> it is an incredible tragedy, of huge proportions and i'm glad that it's being investigated and we'll take a look at it as the investigation moves along. >> and the stand your ground laws? >> snavert, cardinal red looks good in late march. >> it's a bit of a surprise. >> i wanted to ask about the transportation highway bill. if i'm not mistak

big picture the supreme court began hearing arguments today to determine the constitutionality of obamacare and is the most corrupt supreme court in modern history have the power to decide what health care americans could get also the postal service has been a part of american society for hundreds of years and it's been getting screwed for just as long are we really ready to let it fall victim to the republicans war on labor and a woman was brutally murdered in california over the weekend in apparent hate crime or hate crimes the consequences of fear mongers spreading hatred and ignorance across cable news and radio airwaves in america. you need to know this all eyes are on the supreme court as today kate thought three straight days of oral arguments to determine the constitutionality of obamacare the issue at hand is whether or not the individual mandate also the core of romney care is constitutional according to a number of different things or they can choose not to rule on obamacare at all since the mandate doesn't kick in for two years and thus no party has been harmed yet they can rule

ian pearl is a victim of obamacare style price control. kobe rogerses another victim of obamacare price controls. their insurance companies competed to avoid them because they operate in markets subject to obamacare style price control. it includes more mandates and regulations whose purpose is to stop insurance carriers from doing what price controls force them to do, survive. obamacare create three programs to attack all health plans and subsidize those and the most shelby rogers is. obamacare regulate health insurance marketing and benefits, net nick adequacy, planned service area, the amount carriers plan to prevent carriers from doing what price control rewards them for doing. and none of this will work any more than the individual mandate will work. the biggest program is the risk adjustment program and health economist henry aaron explained, quote, insurers have been able to outfox the best of the rhythm. i can of 14 programs and regulations whose purpose is to fix or medicaid the damage done by obamacare press controls. the mandate

they can embrace obamacare. they can win on the issue.omewhere in the low 40% of people like the bill, high 40s to low 50s dislike the bill. those numbers really have not changed that much in the past two years. remember, go back two years ago. it wasn't david plouffe but someone like david plouffe saying, just wait for the administration. you'll like this bill. can we move the numbers by starting a fight with mitt romney over health care? >> tomorrow the supreme court is going to hear arguments over the constitutionality, and we put together a few examples of mitt romney vigorously and effectively defending that very principle that you have to buy insurance. let's watch. >> now in this country, people who don't have health insurance go to the hospital if they get a serious illness and they get treated for free by government. >> let's say someone had a heart attack. take them to the hospital, have surgery. they aren't paying for it because they don't have insurance. the people who are paying for it are you who do have insurance. you have

assuming obamacare is not overturned. i want to be hhs secretary.rking on my manned'ss and they're going. >> sean: hell is going to freeze over before that happens. >> no, it will be fun. but for six months, i will be issuing so many mandates that even liberal it's. >> sean: your boyfriend, are you going it get married? >> is mitt romney here? >> sean: just checking. chris christie, the fat man. >> sean: you didn't call me a gossipy old woman tonight. ann coulter, can't miss her. coming up, liberals love to cherry-pick comments by conservatives and put left-wing spin on t. but tonight, we are putting that to a stop. we will vet the president. a new game called name that politician. can you do well in that quiz? next. straight ahead. >> sean: welcome bato "hannity" as we continue to vet the president. for years, liberals have picked apart comments made by conservatives, all in an attempt to paint them as uneducated, not fit to serve public office. but we have turned the tables and we have compiled a list of some of the most ridiculous examples that p

can obamacare survive without the individual mandate?t's the question in the oral arguments today. some thought the law looked dead after tuesday's questioning but it's premature to put the final nail in the coffin. they were back in full force awaiting a double-header at the supreme court. as the fight over the president's healthcare law continues. >> shannon: they are looking into the mandate that would require every american to pay penalty if they don't buy health insurance. they have great concern over what challengers proposed, throwing out the entire affordable care act. >> why should we say that the state between wrecking operation, which is what you are requesting, or a salvage job? the more conservative approach would be salvage rather than throwing out everything. >> shannon: justice struggled to see if there was any other solution. >> most of the seg rability cases involve one little aspect. the question is the rest. when have we struck down the main purpose of the act and left the rest in effect? >> shannon: this afternoon in

or i will overturn obamacare what happens if the supreme court upholds obamacare or or says it's several and we're going to scream take out the individual mandate leave everything else intact well if people are not required to have health care if they're what they really be saying isn't so much a state of the individual mandate as they would be saying look the congress is not a part of regulating that despite you have somebody people who might be gaming the system and not having insurance and then if they get sick the publicans of paying for them anyway they can get away with that well now we we have to anticipate that if the supreme court says that part of this plan is ok and some of it's not that we have to also be ready to go back to the fundamental question and that is how are we going to challenge the insurance companies in the in the interim period between the time that you forward health care past and present day they have raised their premiums as an industry aggressively their profits have gone up they risen faster than the rest of the standard and poor's five hundred we have to

we have had of the vote to oppose obamacare and to repeal obamacare.he law and the first place and to repeal it later. it is a matter still under discussion. >> a wanted to ask you about the shooting death of trayvon martin. do you think this is a time to reexamine "stand your ground" lost? the justice department is now investigating. based on what you are looking at, do you agree a civil rights law has been violated? >> is an incredible tragedy. i am glad it is being investigated and we will take a look at it as the investigation moves along. >> cardinal red looks pretty good in late march, does it not? i wanted to ask you about the transportation and highway bill. some are thinking you might oppose that. >> the principal reason -- transportation is very popular in our conference, but it ended up having some no-votes, including my own bread there was a provision in their bite, i believe, senator bingaman that would have prevented the innovative efforts of governors like mitch daniels to do outside-the-box funding mechanisms for their state highway sys

for appealing obamacare.greg's point about the analogy going to carville, like a girlfriend that no one likes and she is bad. carville says take out the worst part of the girlfriend, right? don't make her so mean. maybe make her dress better or bake cookies. obama says this is my girlfriend without the bad things. >> bob: of all the tax loopholes and there is an interesting chart on this, the employer insurance they can take off the tax, if they don't -- before you're upset about this. fine, pay taxes -- wait, wait, wait. >> andrea: argument -- >> bob: wait. corporate welfare is the worst. if you want to do this and don't want to do away with obamacare, fine. do away with the tax exemption for employers. >> eric: remember what sparked the tea party? obamacare. the debate over the obamacare. check this out yesterday on cavuto's show. watch. >> the president of the united states promised to heal us all, he can't take responsibility for one thing. he can try to use the healthcare law, the supreme court line of q

assuming obamacare is not overturned. i want to be hhs secretary. i am working on my manned'ss and they're going. >> sean: hell is going to freeze over before that happens. >> no, it will be fun. but for six months, i will be issuing so many mandates that even liberal it's. >> sean: your boyfriend, are you going it get married? >> is mitt romney here? >> sean: just checking. chris christie, the fat man. >> sean: you didn't call me a gossipy old woman tonight. ann coulter, can't miss her. coming up, liberals love to cherry-pick comments by conservatives and put left-wing spin on t. but tonight, we are putting that to a stop. we will vet the president. a new game called name that politician. can you do well in that quiz? next. straight ahead. ♪ i'm making my money do more. i'm consolidating my assets. i'm not paying hidden fees or high commissions. i'm making the most of my money. and seven-dollar trades are just the start. i'm with scottrade. i'm with scottrade. i'm with scottrade. and i'm loving every minute of it. [ rodger riney ] at scottrade, we

some for obamacare and some against it. in a 1942 case seemed to go in either direction, depending how you interpret it. what is your sense of how the court will go on this? >> the sense i have is the fact that the court has taken this, and the fact that it's allocating three days, which is a the most for any case in half a century, any case they understand is a crossroads and argument of those against the bill is that if you can compel a citizen under the individual mandate to enter into individual citizen, compelled by the government. with a private company, there are no limits what a government can make a citizen do under the commerce clause. there is a change in the nature of the contract. it used to be or we imagine ourselves enumerated powers. congress allowed to do "x," "y," "z." if you allow this unlimited expansion of the commerce clause, then congress and the president, federal government is a powerful. what is left is for the individual for element of civil society to carve out areas of autonomy. that is a huge c

yeah, i think the press have said, look, stipulated mostly in favor of obamacare and then once survived, it's the most important supreme court case. >> the graphic was shown time and time again, the generally liberal court members versus the generally conservative ones, four on four with anthony kennedy, probably somewhere in the middle. and constructing this as a liberal versus conservative argument, maybe not so much a