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Would come to the table and negotiate something thats fair. if they dont, declare the emergency, build the wall with the united states military because thats what people in this country want. >> do you support legislation to end the shutdown once and for all? >> well, to modify one of my quotes that usually brings a smile to your face, there certainly would be no education in the third kick of the mule. >> you just have to have a plan so that you accomplish something by it and then reopen it. an...

Some are single payer systems like canada or great britain. most of them are not a medicare for all idea. this is just one type of way to do it. >> right, absolutely. and medicare for all, as you just mentioned, can also kind of have different variations to it. you can have kind of a way for you to -- what senator harris is referring to is really kind of truly what you said that senator sanders started, kind of a single payer health system. but i think the goal is to have care for everyone. and ...

Get single payer next year or 2021. the obstacles are enormous for doing that. they want to lower the medicare eligibility age, allowing people to buy into it, putting an insurance option on the aca exchange. this would advance the left goal, government-run coverage, and this is i think what theyre trying to do is make the space for that so democratic moderates in two or three years from now will be more comfortable supporting those proposals that are on the left and the debate at this point. >>...

Actually has lower administrative costs and as you just mentioned, you wouldnt have to pay the premiums because you would have medicare as an option. a private insurance market could still compete just like they do in other countries. in germany, there is a -- in most countries, all the e.u. countries and the canadian kind of system, theyre all private health insurers. its just they are actually the ones that the people who are more wealthy and can afford private insurance on top of what the gov...

Very similar outcomes. sometimes those countries have better outcomes than the united states has. >> right. look at your paycheck to think about what your wages would be if those were -- if the premium dollars youre paying or what you share with your employer -- and remember, a lot of employees dont actually have employers contributing to their costs, but they access insurance through their employer who then receives a tax credit. so, you know, i dont think senator harris -- first of all, its in...

Option. so senator harris, i think, is just bringing back a conversation that honestly, its not a surprise to me that billionaires dont have a lot of fondness for this. i will tell you that americans who are foregoing health care to kind of pay their heating bills -- >> right. >> -- they are looking for a solution like this. >> you dont have to be a billionaire. you can be any one of my colleagues here at nbc who have some of the best coverage around. why would i want to give any of that up for ...

Long time. >> is health care a fundamental right for every american? >> yes, every american should have the right for affordable health care. i thought the affordable care act was the right thing to do. refine it, amend it specifically because premiums have gone up. elizabeth warren wants to criticize me for being successful? no, i think she believes in programs that will lead to a level of socialism in america. if you want to look at a system thats noncapitalistic, just take a look at what was ...

Completely as part of a medicare for all system. its not actually as weird as it sounds. thats kind of how the medicare for all system would probably work. were going to break down how that works. first senate committee chair chuck grassley said he plans on investigating the spike in the price of insulin for people suffering from diabetes. two congressional panels held hearings today on the high cost of prescription drug prices. insulin went up almost 200% between 2002 and 2013, according to the...