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Loved ones care. we cannot go back to these days where we put the insurance companies back in charge, again. >> this is an interesting point that kathleen sebelius just made to me. before the affordable care act, people could buy junk policy. this fixation we have on premiums, theres a really easy way to lower premiums. allow people to sell policies that dont cover anything. the trump administration has allowed for. so, when we get fixated on premiums, we forget that premiums cover certain thing...

Theres more to know™. we the people... are defined by the things we share. and the ones we love. who never stop wondering what well do or where well go next. we the people who are better together than we are alone... are unstoppable. welcome to the entirely new expedition. >> laura: the trump administration is proposing low-cost health insurance alternatives to obamacare and democrats do not like it at all. the plan would allow health insurers to sell short term policies with lower costs and f...

People to buy insurance across state lines and whatnot. but now it looks like is he going to cut off these bailouts to insurance companies. what does that mean? >> the bailouts are ridiculous, steve, because the insurance companies are the ones that are in the market if it works for them, whereas patients are trapped in the market. you have a mandate that says you have to buy what is essentially a junk policy. democratic critics are calling the new options junk policies. the actual junk is in th...

What was said in that interview? >> well, actually, isnt it interesting how the sort of -- that whole narrative of people losing their insurance has died away has the web site has come back and 1 million people or so a day can visit the website and see whats available. i do think a large part of the effort now has to be try to drive people to take a look at whats on the website. for them to look at what the options are. and to see how much of a subsidy theyre going to get. and so what the final ...

>> you be the host. >> do you want me to? >> go ahead. >> she has a better dress. >> you have said it many times. >> the ratings just went up. >> sean, my question for you is do you think its legal for insurance companies to drop people who have a problem? who have any kind -- my question was for shun. >> thats a separate fix. we can deal with the fact of people with pre-existing conditions and the fact that the small fixes. you dont have to over haul the system. >> you are not answering the que...

>> you be the host. >> do you want me to? >> go ahead. >> she has a better dress. >> you have said it many times. >> the ratings just went up. >> sean, my question for you is do you think its legal for insurance companies to drop people who have a problem? who have any kind -- my question was for shun. >> thats a separate fix. we can deal with the fact of people with pre-existing conditions and the fact that the small fixes. you dont have to over haul the system. >> you are not answering the que...

>> you be the host. >> do you want me to? >> go ahead. >> she has a better dress. >> you have said it many times. >> the ratings just went up. >> sean, my question for you is do you think its legal for insurance companies to drop people who have a problem? who have any kind -- my question was for shun. >> thats a separate fix. we can deal with the fact of people with pre-existing conditions and the fact that the small fixes. you dont have to over haul the system. >> you are not answering the que...

Others to fix and upgrade obama care. today is a pivot in that direction. he has to get away from this broken website and perception of a broken promise and get on with fixing the broken system. >> >> youve got a different perspective than van jones. go ahead and explain this point that van and other democrats supporters of the affordable care act make that policies that have been canceled for, what, 10, 15 million americans, individual policies were junk policy, sham policies, werent worth the ...

Incomplete. next, when you watch a report about someone losing insurance they liked -- >> for tens of thousands are being notified their insurance plan is being canceled. >> that includes 56-year-old diane barrett. last month, she received a letter from blue cross/blue shield informing her that as of january 2014, she would lose her current plan. she pays $54 a month. the new plan shes being offered would run $591 a month. >> these are people that love their plan, they want to keep their plan, a...

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