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And repeal aca, you will be off medicare. your premiums will go up and your co-pays will go up. >> thats terrible scare-mongering. >> its a fact, betsy. tell me, is it a fact -- let me ask you a question, is it a fact that the congressional budget office said that 350 billion -- >> id like to answer this. that in fact obamacare eviscerated medicare. >> that is not true. >> and a strong stand against the affordable care act. is that it included provisions that made it much harder for older people...

Off. number two. 20 million people newly gained insurance, but about 200 million people are being very hurt by this law. and they are demanding repeal. 156 million people with on-the-job coverage who are paying much more in deductibles than ever before because of the employer mandate. 10 million people who are incurring penalties for not having insurance. penalties they cant afford. eight million people who have lost their on-the-job coverage because of the obamacare employer mandate. so there a...

Well consider it a political game of hide and seek this week, republican senator rand paul went on a hunt to find the gops obamacare replacement plan. a plan he says is being kept under lock and key. >> senator paul, are you concerned that the bill is in a locked room? >> not allowed to be in this area. >> i would like to read the obamacare bill. this is being presented as if this were a national secret. i think theres a bill in there. its the secret office for the secret bill. >> now we brought...

Theyre doing it the same way legislation is always written. >> john, do you agree? >> well, apparently rand paul and other members of congress dont agree. i think its been hidden. i think theres a reason for that i think the republicans have been buried and barraged at town hall meetings all across the country. i think cnn and many networks have shown video of people coming to town hall meetings, crowding in those town hall meetings and basically shouting at their legislators, mostly republicans...

People and the russians. i dont know, you dont know, probably trump doesnt even know. the problem is because this is a, this issue has come out of such a divisive and contentious campaign season and has become so highly politicized, their actions are suspicious, thats not an indication of guilt, but not a sign of innocence, either. >> josh rogen, david farrenhold, sarah westwood, we appreciate it. coming up on this saturday, a bizarre scene on capitol hill. one senator who literally goes on a ...

Are democrats doing too much to fuel anger instead of helping republicans get down to the business of improving obamacare? >> heres the thing, pamela -- republicans have no interest in improving the affordable care act. they want to throw millions of people off the health roles and thats what will happen. and by the way, they want to bankrupt medicare. look, republicans always wanted to destroy medicare, thats been, theyve hated medicare. and what the affordable care act did actually, and this i...

On average ten times as much health care as younger, healthier people do. they could see it was a sham and thats why they didnt sign up. this new plan funds care for the seriously ill with tax dollars, rather than imposing the burden on premium payers in the individual market. those with preexisting conditions will be fully cared for. but the costs will be spread far more fairly over all taxpayers, rather than burdening people in the individual insurance market so premiums are going to come way ...

Have their aca, affordable care act bill, repeal, somewhere? the capital. were going to look for it. >> its not here. >> i cant find the bill. >> i know it was -- mr. lincoln, you are as upset with your party as i am. thank you all. >> joining me now for what i imagine will be a lively discussion, republican and former lieutenant governor of new york, betsy mccoy, the author of "beating obamacare: avoid the landmines." and joining us, democratic strategist jonathan tassini. thank you for coming ...

People wont have health care. unreasonable and high deductibles and heres an important part, pamela. its going to shift an enormous amount of money to the 1%, the rich. which is what republicans do all the time. >> well let me point out, since ive actually read this plan and it appears that jonathan hasnt that none of that is true. >> well whats not true, betsy? >> just a moment. let me please finish and i will explain. first of all, 15 of the 20 million newly insured under affordable care act a...

Question of people paying a, what betsy called a penalty. the problem actually with obamacare, the affordable care act, is the fine if you will call it for not participating, was too low. and if we, if we, and that, that basically put, that allowed young people, healthy people to opt out of the plan. what we need to do and i think there are some things that need to be fixed in the arch ca. we need to set the penalty at the lowest premium so people do essentially opt in. when you have participati...