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The coverage now? >> donald trump, president-elect and members of congress have reached an agreement that the repeal and replacement will coincide. in other words, there will not be a length -- a period of time when americans dont have a new law with new health insurance coverage protections. people with pre-existing conditions will be covered. the low income families that depend on medicaid will be covered. the large number of newly uninsured, neil, people that lost their plans or who are now p...

With savings of up to 30%, with an initial discount just for signing up. take control of your rates. visit a local office or call liberty mutual today at liberty stands with you™. liberty mutual insurance. >> neil: all right. be careful what you wish for, republicans. you get the repeal on obamacare, its on you and leaving 32 million uninsured on you as well. ed henry with the cbo report that has both parties doing a little arguing. ed? >> thats right, neil. good to see you. you have chuck sch...

Repealing obamacare is just that sort of stuff. and that kind of press that it generates. >> most americans mow that this report that i have here is just fake news, neil. its fake news because its based on the laughable premise that congress -- >> neil: was that the actual report that you ripped up? >> its only four pages and its not worth reading twice. >> neil: okay. >> its based on the laughable premise that congress will repeal the obamacare law without replacing it. its kind of like asking ...

Lets move forward. thats what i expect him to do. >> thats great but we cannot forget the job destruction of obama care and dodd frank. thats why donald trump won. business is excited -- >> neil: carrie, the mayor is right about this. whoever wants to take vows or criticism, you have to get stuff done and move forward and work together. he show as willingness to that. a couple of republicans that wanted to do that with barack obama. the more we have like that, the more we can get stuff done. not...

Having insurance, millions more would lose their insurance. we should point out some of those millions would be offset by the fact that their employers would step in and give them insurance. so thats why, you know, millions would lose it, but millions others would pick up insurance as well. >> thank you very much. ed henry in washington. as ed pointed out, these are projections and republicans are pouncing on it saying projections are one thing. actual history is another. the history of the cbo ...

Saying this projection is meaningless as it takes into account no measures to replace the law, nor actions that the incoming administration will take to revitalize the individual market that has been decimated by obama care. so you hear both sides. the bottom line is, the actual repeal is not necessarily what is important about the future. what is important is what do you actually do after you repeal the law? republicans insist that theyll have a plan that repairs this and makes sure that millio...

President-elect donald trump has big plans for his first 100 days in office. at the top of the list, obama tl care. the gop has wanted to repeal the affordable care act almost from the day it was signed into law and now they could have their chance. the big question, what will congress replace it with? and how many people could possibly gain or lose their insurance with what is already being called trump care? lets discuss now with jonathan gruber, an economics professor at m.i.t. and architect ...

You take or whatever maladies you have, there is no guarantee that you have them either. the author of "beating obamacare" on the other story. you dont hear much about that. a lot of people are getting gouged, arent they? >> drug prices are spiraling even for drugs that have been on the market for a very long time. the big pharma companies are making on average a profit margin of 19%. the public is upset. patients families are very upset to see these prices. but the industry claims that they nee...

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Money you make. the more you make the more they charge. >> thats right. so success is punished. >> all right. >> at the end of the year. >> why is this bad for the sickest people in the country? >> who would design a system that is wrong 96% of the time? >> lets talk about the sickest people. we know it is not fair. what happens to them? >> clearly the sickest get clobbered by obamacare because they no longer have access to the doctors and hospitals they were using, especially cancer hospitals f...