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There were problems in the insurance market before Obamacare, but the scale of those issues is dwarfed by the authority created by Obamacare.

Obamacare had to cover. that was the biggest rule under obamacare, you cant sell substandard insurance to people. >> if people are going to buy insurance, they need to be covered. >> right, for things they dont know theyll need to be covered for. this is a return to the insurance situation before obamacare became law. lots of people will carry on about the increase in premiums during obamacare, and theyre not wrong about that. i want people to think about before obamacare, not during obamacare, ...

Right and dont do drugs. my opinion is, if you live a healthy lifestyle, why should you have to subsidize people that do overeat and dont exercise z. we want to encourage healthy lifestyles. a way to do that is through a well functioning system. if you smoke, you are going to pay higher premiums. >> before obamacare, nowhere in the country could smokers be charged more for health insurance. obamacare made that legal. obamacare was the first time insurers were allowed to charge smokers more. dont...

And its not working and it has to be fixed. >> bakari. >> if we dont, we no that there with one-third of the counties right now in this country that only have one insurance provider. we know that there are people who were facing not having access to any health insurance. >> let bakari make his point. >> this doesnt help that. you will have people with pre-existing conditions whose care will sky rocket. but if you want democrats to help to get to the point that you were making and john kasich was...

Of anxiety that they dont have the insurance before obamacare. >> and a couple of things too, because bob is the king of polls. obama is in trouble because his mattress of support is the millennials, you know the new poll and a.p. numbers. and millennials over obamacare, nearly four in five say obamacare will worsen insurance. this is a group he strongly relied on for his popularity and his presidency and for his political will to get things done and it has compromised, severely battle tested at...

Them. >> anonymous hill staffers leaking to press is news like a dog barking. this is what they do every day on both side, on both sides of the aisle. they are getting nervous because the politics of is not worked well for democrats but you have to look at this in larger picture. democrats are enormously united over last 10 years and it worked for them and in national elections. they have won three of the last four national elections. martha: before obamacare. >> actually not true. obama care wa...

Reform system that allowses greater competition, innovation, and greater patient choice while driving down the overall cost. the problem with obamacare is, that it put government in the center. it creates a massive new bureaucracy and drives costs out of the control. the governor is saying hey from a market standpoint this is way we do it that is win for the patient and bringing more innovation to health care and allows greater choice and lower costs at the same time. jenna: brad, sean isnt usin...

What even if majority of people dont like it? or could there be changes in the second term because that is the general feeling from the country? >> well, look, this law was upheld by the supreme court. it is supported by about half of americans, half americans oppose it. that is where the political discourse is in this country. but remember obamacare, the model for obamacare was a law passed by a republican governor in massachusetts named mitt romney. it was a bipartisan idea until, until presid...

What governor romney did on nbc leave people the impression he could keep the preexisting condition exclusion that is in obamacare today in place when he became president. when in fact what he will do is go back to the law that existed before obamacare, which would eliminate 89 million americans from getting coverage. in other words, if you do not have coverage and have a preexisting condition, an insurance company can deny you coverage. that is the whole reform that obamacare put in place. jenn...