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It does make you wonder, though, the president is successful with the iran deal, obamacare, turning these things around, while the former president barack obamas legacy be? >> you will be one of the failure. weve seen this administration has tackled a fist and isolate and done more in the first 10 months or so in the administration of ridding the world of this terrorist organization in the obama administration in eight years. the stock rocketed 43, 44 new highs. a trillion dollars in the stock m...

Market. experiment >> neil: was not thau would lose coverage if you had pre-existing conditions. the degree would be how much more you pay for that. >> you would not be paying for more. heres why. the federal government was blocked granting billions and billions of dollars to the state to subsidize the premiums for people with pre-existing conditions. there was still get the health care. >> neil: but when they pay more? those arguing on obamacare, -- >> it would be out of pocket more, instead of...

The growth of health care spending by immune school 4.5%. can you imagine? >> neil: reminds me of the paul ryan, when he was trying to rein in the growth trajectory of medicare, it was growing but what happens now? >> the first thing that happens, there is about 12 million americans and the individual market that dont get any kind of subsidy. they are paying their insurance premiums out of their own pocket, and those premiums have gotten so big it is like paying a mortgage. they will drop insura...

Is a "no." you have 52 republican senators that takes you down to 49, using this process that expires on the 30th, that eliminate filibusters, they need 50. vice president pence could break the tie. what they try to do here in the past 24 hours was rewrite the bill to get people like rand paul, ted cruz, its in more money to the states. >> neil: amazing. they could, chad. chad pergram. the author of "beating obamacare" the expert on all things health care, joining me now. what happened? >> it ha...

Going on -- >> neil: he said, he called this revision to the graham-cassidy bill and republicans would be held responsible for obamacare. this is thrown together. hes not changing. >> obamacare is collapsing for the choice is not between this and a democratic health bill that its working. unfortunately, millions of people will come to congress next year and say, you have to do something, grow up, and do something. >> neil: this does not look good for the battle ensuing for tax cuts. >> i am very...

Otherwise we are going to keep on seeing that. >> trish: the thinking is that its the democrats are essentially keeping these people in a poor situation, so that they can continue to get votes, that is the concern right now, michael. >> i mean that is a great republican talking points. when corporations do a better job of paying their employees and putting them in a position where they can go out and spend their money, then everyone works better. >> trish: now, just keep hiking that minimum wage...

"beating obamacare," betsy. what is your reaction? >> i find his way to flag statements terrible. the fact is, at the least, the congress can repeal obamacare, effective for a specific date in the future, like the first of 2018, that will give them a year, it will also allow this congress to move on to tax reform, which is urgently needed to jumpstart the economy. the president has done his part, he has already launched a deregulation revolution, but he needs congress to work with him to lower t...

Senator, a republican president, they made it clear they want to repeal obamacare. its >> trish: so republican voters are pretty mad. they send donald trump to the white house for a reason, they sent all the lawmakers to washington for a reason, and this was a big one. >> and he has made it very clear that he supports what is called clean repeal, lets repeal it now, and say as of august 1st for example, there will be no more individual mandates, no more job killing, end. of >> trish: and worry a...

So the other thing that the republicans will do when they have replacement, make sure theres a wide variety of more affordable plans. fewer mandates, another method of funding those with pre-existing conditions rather than on the backs of the they w instead. that will really control premium growth. premiums have doubled since obama care went into effect. doubled since the end of 2013. >> neil: so play this out. republicans do have to be aware of having a fairly close replacement after they repea...