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Running through the gop talking points about obamacare. >> obamacare is in a death spiral. >> obamacare is in what everyone seems to want to call it death spiral. >> death spiral. >> obamacare is in a death spiral. >> obamacare is in a death spiral. death spiral. death spiral. its in a death spiral. >> in the republicanss nightmare scenario, healthy people would buy out and force companies to cover a pool of sicker people. they would push healthier people out of the marketplace until it spiraled...

The affordable care act has become far more popular and many in the media that did not want to talk about what is actually in the affordable care act have been forced to actually explain to the american public whats in it for them. and now people better understand it. >> we have to be kind of mad that it took seven years for obamacare to win the week. it could have 2001 week a long time ago. >> exactly! he won on health care. >> to say something is in a death spiral, that means its in a death sp...

The welfare queen getting something she doesnt deserve. what were dealing with is the president who is making it clear that hes going to go along with the most conservative element of the republican party and concede that they have a right to make sure poor people are not getting too much from government. >> whats interesting though is that when donald trump was elected, kind of the conventional windows was he up ended the belief that what their base mainly wanted was tax cut for the rich and it...

Work requirements and education requirements, there are job preparation requirements in the welfare program. the expansion of the medicaid program are for the working poor, working poor. so what are we talking about here? this is just foolish arguments looking for a sound bite that somehow they can hang their repeal of the affordable care act on what is a disaster for 14 million people just nine months from now, 2018, 14 million people will lose their health care. thats a mileage disaster for a ...

Believed it. theres no truth whatsoever that obamacare is not in a sudden death spiral. very possibly and likely if they proceed with the legislation thats before the house now it will absolutely lead to that, or it will at best lead to people who really need access to care not being able to afford it. >> your colleagues are the ones who are on tv every day saying obamacare is collapsing. you have sean spicer the presidents spokesman saying it before. that is the talking point people say. if the...

Saifrm has not happened. obamacare enrollment surpassed the numbers of the previous year. the the subsidies campaigned with the penalties by uninsured people are anticipated to cause sufficient demand for insurance by people with low health care expenditures for the market to be stable. in regular people language, one of the best things republicans can do to prevent this death spiral and to keep the market stable would be to leave obamacare in place. joining me are political consultant tara dow ...

Anymore because their neighbors are going to be the ones that lose the health insurance and meals on wheels. the koch brothers will get tax cuts. thats where that money is going. theyre the ones that are on welfare. >> wendell potter, you do have inside the trump care bill the ability for insurance companies to write off unlimited ceo pay again which was outlaud in the affordable care act. its a direct transfer of $600 million right into the hands of insurance companies. the polling does show to...

Medicaid programs to insurance companies. so they stand to lose some money if that happens. otherwise they make out like ban ditz. >> what do insurance companies hate so much about obamacare. >> they dont like consumer pretexts. they dont like it restricts how much they can divert to profits. they cant spend more than 20% of premium dollars on executive order compensation and sales and marketing. they dont like that they cant underwrite like they used to or they cant keep people out of the pool,...

For democrats to launch this young kennedy kennedy as a national figure? hes in the lineage of rfk, brilliant on the topic of health care, young, i think hes two years over the age when you have to run for president. or is the dynastic thing against him? >> i think its early on. hes a three-term member of congress. for the most part hes kept his head low. but this is the very issue he spoke about in personal terms. someone on his staffs life was saved by obamacare. its more than appropriate for ...

Obamacare rates are set to rise by an average of 33% in 2017. thats huge. thats something that voters will be thinking about as they are going to the polls. do we want to elect a president who will make changes to the program or continue the program as it is. its definitely one of the major partisan issues in this election. i talked with a senior republican in one of the other battleground states about this issue, and this republican told me, if donald trump had been talking about this sort of t...