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That is what is it about. it is not about bernie sanders saying, hey, we have toillion pm free health insurance. americans have rejected that! >> i am not arguing about that. what im arguing, number one, this is a clear, direct violation of one of the principal campaign promises donald trump made. he specifically said in the campaign that he would never cut medicare or medicaid. this is an $800 billion cut to medicaid. its just a direct violation of his campaign promise. >> bill: its a cap, not ...

Year. premiums are supposed to increase before they decrease. youll sea that in 2018 and 20. this is a hard sell for republicans to make when you have to go home and sell this to your constituents and run for reelection again. i think thats going to help color this. the challenges in the house certainly but the senate looks like a very difficult battlefield. you on need three republicans to defect, of course. democrats are showing no signs of giving any votes. >> theres a theory out there that t...

Still double everything else and you got to wonder why. why the last 20 years has driven so much out of control that its become the middle class. and i think trump voters are people burdened by the fact that obamacare costs have cost more. >> but thats more than that person earns. >> i cant comment because i dont know the specifics of that example. >> i think this gets lost in all the white noise is that the current system doesnt work. its too expensive. it needs to be fixed. but the ploon being...

It is not about bernie sanders saying, hey, we have to support 30 million people by giving them free health insurance. americans have rejected that! >> i am not arguing about that. what im arguing, number one, this is a clear, direct violation of one of the principal campaignum promises donald trump made. he specifically said in the campaign that he would never cut medicare or medicaid. this is an $800 billion cut to medicaid.ca its just a direct violation of his campaign promise. >> bill: its a...

>> theres a theory out there that the president want to own this. how does that theory go? >> the white house has said please dont call that trumpcare. but the president has said if this doesnt work, ill let this be congresss fault. hes great at blaming if things dont go the way he wants to. that may or may not be a problem for the president himself. i think the politics for the members of congress are really compliteand harder to see than, say, years ago when we had the old litmus test politics...

Insurance markets. listen in. >> its just one of those areas a free market doesnt work. it will work much better than its working now under a complete government control of health care for goodness sake. >> so i want to point something out. out of all the developed countries in the world, the united states is the only one that doesnt have universal or single payor health care systems. there is no where on earth a free market health insurance system because this is what we call a market failure. ...

They are just a slogan. thats what gets you in trouble. i am not someone who doesnt want president trump to be president so im asking tough questions. im not someone. >> you think its a good idea o that one-third of our nations counties only have one choice in health care? >> no, but you have to look at why. >> aetna called it a death spiral. humana left the exchange and said its not a winning proposition. they literally cant afford it. that doesnt work. when people admit that something is not w...

Reimbursemt from 90% down to whatever thetandard is for the state in the case of new york. 50%. but i dont believe for a second new york states going to end that. we offered it before under something called family health plus. we simply moved the people from family health plus into the exchange and while theyve cut the reimbursement, it used to be 50%. so i dont accept that states are going to cut, and i cant really accept that new york would throw people off. also, great news that theyre saying...

Congressional office will report this week perhaps as early as tomorrow on its assessment of the repeal and replace plan and there are other groups that aresting that the cbo will say that between 6 and 15 million people will lose coverage under the obamacare repeal and replace plan. will the president support a bill that throws a half -- millions of americans off insurance? >> well, chris, you to remember where we are. we came into office with an insurance plan that doesnt work. obamacare just ...

This week perhaps as early as tomorrow on its assessment of the repeal and replace plan and there are other groups that aresting that the cbo will say that between 6 and 15 million people will lose coverage under the obamacare repeal and replace plan. will the president support a bill that throws a half -- millions of americans off insurance? >> well, chris, you to remember where we are. we came into office with an insurance plan that doesnt work. obamacare just is not working n. the last year a...