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And thats very difficult. once people have it, they dont want to get rid of it, which is why we call these things entitlement programs. on top of that, you add in the fact that the major stakeholders, the american medical association, the hospital association, the aarp, they are all opposed to this. and they can go out and campaign against it. and i think it makes it very difficult for a republican senator, no matter how conservative, or if you are susan collins in the state of maine, to go to y...

Whether they are 21, 40 or 60 years old. is that a tough narrative for republicans to fight on this one? >> it sure is. republicans argued at the time, obamacare was a massive wealth redistribution. repealing and replacing it would do the opposite effect. one thing republicans and conservatives always talk about is when democrats enact entitlement programs, they do so in part because they know how difficult it is to get rid of them. republicans have been trying seven years to get rid of obamacar...

Simply going to continue to try to twist arms and to use the tactic they have been using all the way along which is to argue to republicans look, you promised you were going to do this, you better deliver or its going to be a huge problem for you. i think you laid out pretty well the problems here is that the president made certain promises about the entitlement programs that are quite frankly at odds with what republicans in washington have been wanting to do for a really long time. in many way...

Say lets, now you can buy health insurance. - >> isnt this the age-old story to say that once you put an entitlement program replace people then turned to it and become dependent on it in a way they might not otherwise have done? then you end up in a situation you are always in we have this exploding cost and people worried about losing it. and the result is you have this national debt through the roof and you can never seem to take it away. >> that is absolutely right. if you look at the way th...

It is these entitlement programs and the spending on them that is ballooning the budget deficit and the national debt. this bill would do something over time to diminish that at least as far as medicaid is concerned even though the spending will continue to grow up it would curb the rate of growth. it always runs into problems. if you listened to dean heller from nevada he was objecting to that. thats a problem for a number of people in states where they went along with the presidents proposal t...

Health insurance. - >> isnt this the age-old story to say that once you put an entitlement program replace people then turned to it and become dependent on it in a way they might not otherwise have done? then you end up in a situation you are always in we have this exploding cost and people worried about losing it. and the result is you have this national debt through the roof and you can never seem to take it away. >> that is absolutely right. if you look at the way the healthcare has developed...

Say lets, now you can buy health insurance. - >> isnt this the age-old story to say that once you put an entitlement program replace people then turned to it and become dependent on it in a way they might not otherwise have done? then you end up in a situation you are always in we have this exploding cost and people worried about losing it. and the result is you have this national debt through the roof and you can never seem to take it away. >> that is absolutely right. if you look at the way th...

At what, criticized obamacare was subsidies, regulations. other things. this law wouldnt change those according to the leaked drafts were seeing. the changes it would make are bad and im opposed but not nearly at radical as the house change pss theyre weakens obamacare repeal elements, i like in some sense, and instead doing a much more dramatic long-run cut to medicaid. >> doug, in reverse order. jonathan said what it could do to medicaid. based what youve seen, when all is said and done, less ...

More flexibility because too often, these programs are driven out of washington, d.c., and a one-size-fits-all approach. what this does is it allows states to design programs and a lot of kids are doing that. theres a lot of innovation going on out there already with respect to medicaid. this builds on that success and gives states flexibility, but in terms of medicaid spending, federal funding for medicaid, medicaid spending will continue to go up every single year. theres a lot of misinformati...

On the obamacare repeal i think it might be something from jonathan lips to rand pauls ears the notion this is not in fact a repeal of obamacare. do you agree with that statement, doug? >> i dont agree with that. if you look at the critiques of the affordable care act they come in many forms but really were a centralized one size fitsz all approach. it was a large tax increase a large expansion of entitlement programs at a time when the economy wasnt performing well and we could not afford it. t...