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The new way forward for health care reform. senator casey thank you so much for being with us. you heard my conversation with gerrit. the republicans tried this a few ways. it seems to be a mathematics problem. the idea that you are a republican doesnt mean you share agreement on how repealing obamacare comes about. so this point, it looks like the party that governs in the senate and the house is going to have to reach out to democrats and find some alternative? >> ali, the good news is that no...

Weeks and months of hearing on a lot of good ideas. democrats have ideas on a whole range of things. buying into medicare starting at age 55. expanding medicaid even further to bring more people and to cover more people. there are a lot of ideas. we need months of hearing on a lot of good ideas. and im sure people in both parties would appreciate that. instead of having the collision we have had where one party has been obsessed, the republican party, with decimating medicaid. not tweaking it. d...

Showing country-wide is that at 12% maybe 17% popularity, is that it is at a third of popularity of what obamacare is today. i think what you do have to do is, and what you did promise the constituents is, that you would fix the health care system to make sure that it was going to be able to deliver good, quality health care at the lowest prices possible. democrats are ready and willing to work with the gop on this. that does not mean repealing obamacare and decimating medicaid taking $800 billi...

Have to look their constituents in the eye and they will be unhappy with what they see. >> senator, has the white house invited you to meet with the president or anybody frankly in the west wing? >> there has been no outreach whatsoever. none. and the meeting yesterday i think was a perfect picture, the old saying a picture is worth a thousand words, of the republican approach. only republicans sitting down with a president who probably doesnt understand the deal that he wants to close. its a li...

Insurers, partly by breaking down some of the regulatory barriers that exist in the state exchanges. second, lower pharmaceutical drug prices and in fact, medical care costs generally but pharmaceutical drug prices are much higher than they should be, much higher than in other industrialized countries partly because of excessive profits or price gouging and lack of transparency, negotiation for medicare prices just as the v.a. does it. there are other points where we can come together and improv...

They say medicare is extremely or very important in how they will vote for president. 80% of democrats, 74% of independents, 61% of republicans say that it is extremely or very important to them. wouldnt you assume, then, that theyre really going to look into the truth of this issue? >> they better hope they dont. the kicker here, reverend, is in paul ryans own budget he would take out that same money hes saying that the obama administration is proposing to rob from medicare. he would just use i...