the supreme court has ruled to up hold another mandate but they're doing so as
attacks now a lot of people are wondering what that means for that
jackie so tell me what that means uh...
and whether or not this
horns the affordable care act in any way shape or form now actually does and
that's what a wonderful things about this right so what they said in the
affordable care act is that if you don't buy health insurance
i mean you're gonna have to pay a penalty and that's what the individual a
mandate wisely grady is it is everybody's in health care system just
by default at some point in your life you're gonna have to use health care
it's just been teacher of nature frankly so the idea was that everybody's gotta
pay into the system it also helps to keep costs down because you have the
four that's larger and that way everybody's accommodated by having cost
spread out over a larger population
so what they did and they said according to the commerce clause the mandate was
unconstitutional that congress did not have the right to call it a mandate and
regulated under the commerce clause instead with each other and said today
is
he can get high
because congress does have the right to levy taxes and they say it's a system
that the government's regulating
uh... very very small catholic special emphasize it's a small passages first of
all a lot of ultra progresses we'll argued that this is not socialism this
is fascism
u_f_o_s forcing the population of the united states that
bite into private insurance
so tony what happens to the people who decide they do not want to buy the
private insurance they do get a tax cut how much to pick one person
one person and i had a red hot and then two point sixteen a close up to two and
a half percent
but the idea is that your if someone can take advantage of a health care system
and why should i eat pay for your use of health care system are
but she doesn't have to pay
for your use of health care system so you're going to contribute to a larger
cost and that way it's not gonna be totally uncompensated care that somehow
you have contributed to the health care system that we all participate out
does the there obviously huge up sides to the affordable care act i think a lot
of people have focused way too much on the mandate and haven't focused enough
on all the good things that the affordable care act accomplishes soap
what are your thoughts on the obama administration proposing this
legislation in the beginning
i mean a lot of people thought that the obama administration is the two-week by
not offering a public option
ultimately which you say that
this has opened a door or four future health care reform it could be better
but be very interesting to see how it plays out and and as we know the the
huge fight to get even this far along in healthcare legislation
in the first health-care legislation really in in sixty seventy years
essentially of the fights to get that done i think most people most
progressives where were shocked and very much dismayed that if you like the obama
administration was negotiating with themselves instead of actually saying
putting forth the the best deal that they could possibly put forth in a glass
far as they possibly could they basically
negotiated back to the position that they thought the republicans would go
for which then write provided the republicans with all that room to cut it
back further and further and further with i find most fascinating about this
is the republican reaction
the mandate which was their idea in the first place this was you know an idea
that was created by that heritage foundation back when hillary clinton was
trying to solve this problem back in nineteen ninety-two i thought that
protect property interest in trying to answer it's out there to protect the
private insurance industry so you know the idea that they are so so screaming
lien against the idea of a mandate is so hypocritical so completely contradictory
to everything they held dear up until about one of two thousand six two
thousand seven is is kind of insane it is insane but it just gives you an idea
of how far the country's shifted to the right
because
hillary clinton was trying to propose back in the day would not
have passed in congress today it would have been considered too radical right
so i can understand why the obama administration wed want to keep the
friend insurance companies and not offer public option
but jackie let's talk about the positives for sexually elect let's
refresh everyone's memory because
there's a whole issue of pre-existing conditions there's the expansion of
medicaid tell us a little bit about that ok well here's what's going on first of
all of the email insurance regulations
will say that you can tonight anybody for pre-existing conditions
i think it's something out of a hundred twenty million people can be considered
of a pre-existing condition because frankly if he sees once back in nineteen
eighty-two europeans instantaneous and use such a broad definition and the
insurance industry's in charge of define so that could be amazing that people can
get coverage for pre-existing conditions
the second thing is that they're not going to be able to charge women more
than me
finally generating is what's called and it's not just the charges when incharge
naked something like if a man smokes and we don't smoke we still get charged more
right and it's such disparity amongst men versus women
either going to cost to cover things like maternity care which you say okay
maybe it's a women's issue yeah but it takes to make it be so brinkley those
are the kinds of things that are good for everybody especially for families
right on it's gonna cover we had no now it's like three point one million young
adults were allowed to stay on their parents health care plan under the age
of twenty six i'll have a coworker whose a freelancer i'd like to be able to be a
freelancer because she sees on her parents plan up until the age of twenty
section that allows her to do which is like to do in the workplace and not
necessarily be types of one particular job ahead of time which is figuring out
what it is she wants to be when she grows up the way i also think that this
is something that republicans the reason the fight also so hard against this is i
think that they know
that once americans get a taste of what they will actually be receiving any
benefits and and lower costs from the american help that basic
duggar why keep it and they won't be able to repeal a replace or or take out
any of those components and as you guys have been talking about for ages now
when polled on the individual components
americans live the individual components they've just bought into that propaganda
that the whole bill is bad but it turns out of course if you like the provision
so once they get these provisions that unlikely because two hundred thirty five
million dollars of negative advertising
right that's a good buys it has an impact intimates people believe that
what they're calling and i hate the word obama care i will go on record as a day
hold back where i think it's are hot
i think it is a negative connotation matter what you do but they didn't apply
it
that the affordable care act
is obama care and has this connotation of this government takeover of health
care and they don't really know what's in it
i want to go to president obama statement on the ruling i think it was a
good statement looks at the end of the three
today's decision was a victory for people all over this country
whose lives will be more secure because of the small
and the supreme court's decision upholding
that's why even though i knew it wouldn't be politically popular
and resisted the idea when i ran for this office
week ultimately included a provision in the affordable care act
that people who can afford to buy health insurance should take the responsibility
to do so
in fact this ideas enjoyed support from members of both parties including the
current reform kanani for president
i like that after three days in i that that was a great line uh... let's go to
the next big boy
it should be pretty clear by now that i didn't do this because was good politics
i did it because i believed it was good for the country
i did it because i believed it was good for the american people
he secretly
it mid-day what he did the job composing itself and of course opa might be isn't
perfect example of composure bottom line is we didn't crack the door open
there's a lot more that we can do
but this will certainly help