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That was our chance, still had president obama there, but now the fact is, lets look at president trump here for a moment. what he said on the campaign trail, just an outright repeal and leave it alone, that would really cut against kind of the populist brand and with his voters who need to have a repeal and replace. i think thats one of the things with the president people have to keep in mind. he very much views himself as a problem solve ar, someone whos solutions oriented. so now theyve got ...

In a death spiral, that its going to explode? >> well, i think the evidence suggests that that is not the case. but on the other hand, what is fair to acknowledge is deductibles in many cases are too high. premiums are too high. and while obamacare has slowed down the rate of health care increase, it is going up much too fast. >> lets get more perspective from our own health care expert, dr. sanjay gupta. we just heard both sides give their take on obamacare. from a doctors perspective, what are...

He thinks its the best plan given todays setback to wait for obamacare to explode. heres the praise th heres the phrase they use a lot. >> we all know obamacare is in a death spiral. >> death spiral. >> death spiral. >> quote, obamacare is in a death spiral. >> death spiral. its a weird term, kind of gruesome. >> death spiral. >> let obamacare explode. it is exploding right now. >> the idea that obamacare is teetering on the brink of collapse is debunctioned debunkf times. we talked about it wit...

Surprise you. that may have worked a little better than this. now i think theyre stuck with figuring out incremental things they can do to fix the problems with obama care. >> the worry was that you would have the death spiral. that insurance companies would say hey, lets get out of this. >> they would vote to repeal it, say its not happening for a couple years. >> the sequester, the notion that people would work together if you force them to work together, im not convinced they would have will ...

Insurance. >> stay with us, what happens, clearly, the governments, you know, president trump is not going to be encouraging more people to sign on for obamacare. so what happens until, what happens moving forward? >> if you take the president at his word today, we wait an a little bit here. i think one of the interesting challenges is, hes right, the democrat t democrats passed obamacare. so they quote-unquote own it. a lot of these problems, especially with the options, where theres only one i...

If he had come out of the box and suggested some ideas on repairing the affordable care act, it would have put a lot of pressure on red-state democrats to work with him. if he came out of the box, it would have been a ton of pressure on red-state democrats to work with him. instead, hes uniting them. probably against a supreme court pick. theyre largely lining up against him. so i dont think theyre going to be there to triangulate. >> do you think if he had chosen to do infrastructure first that...

Were elected as change agents, and both of them could have tried to transcend their parties. i think president obama, you know, made a mistake by pushing through obamacare and in a very partisan party-line fashion. donald trump, similarly, could have triangulated and sort of, you know, transcended partisanship, but he also close to go to his base. >> donald trump has to deliver a win for republicans soon, because he needs political cover on these russia questions. if he doesnt deliver a win for ...

What got donald trump in the presidency in the first place, 48% of the people think the economy is moving in the right direction. highest number since 2003. >> what about the market? >> hes going to get things done on health care and tax reform, and now it looks like its not happening. >> tax reform. >> this puts a real cloud over his capacity to get tax reform done. they were counting on as much as $500 billion in improvement for the government that they wouldnt have to make up for in the tax b...

Its an unbelievably complex subject. nobody knew health care could be so complicated. >> a couple people maybe knew. were back with the panel. sanjay, youve seen the effects of obamacare every day as a doctor, what was the most controversial change being mulled over by republicans. >> this essential health benefit thing that came over the last couple days, something people didnt pay a lot of attention to was certainly the most important provision that they were thinking about removing from this ...

He worked very, very hard. i will tell you that. he worked very, very hard. tom price and mike pence who is right here, our vice president, our great vice president. everybody worked hard. i worked as a team player. and would have loved to have seen it pass, but, again, i think you know i was very clear, because i think there wasnt a speech i made or very few, that perhaps the best thing that could happen is exactly what happened today, because well end up with a truly great health care bill in ...