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at the very least, its of course theres a lot of court intrigue going on in american politics and a small percentage is public. one day you wake up and kamala harris is the vice president. how did that happen, you wonder? nobody will say. you can be sure theres a story there. heres the latest example of unexplained weirdness in the news. mike pence of all people has swooped in to save joe biden. yes, mike pence. a man so pure he wont have dinner with ladies not his wife. mike pence had...

Possibly some answers. thanks for coming on. how are these people getting so rich? nobody ever asks that question. jeff zients has gotten richer than anybody. how dough that that happened? >> its interesting. i think through the covid thing, it was a story that we saw all over the country where i know its cliche but the rich got richer and the poor got poorer. zients used much of his career -- recall, he used to be the obamacare czar. he oversaw the obamacare implementation, the government means...

Congratulations for remembering to set your clocks forward an hour. who knew that health care could be so complicated? house republicans reveal their replace version of repeal and replace of obamacare to decidedly mixed reviews. president trump offered qualified support allowing that changes could still be made to the bill, but the proposal got hit on all sides by freedom caucus republicans saying the bill didnt go far enough to moderate republicans who say it goes too far and to democrats foldi...

Destroyed by the aca and it will reinvigorate the insurance market and it will drive down costs because youll have competition and transparency in the system. >> you accept this bill. you own this bill. president trump accepts this bill and owns this bill. fair? >> we strongly support this plan. the bill and the regulatory opportunity to modify the system in a way that works for patients and the other piece of legislation that is required that cant go through on the first part. >> my thanks to h...

Pennsylvania. donald trump won this county with 69% of the vote. with obamacare, the same 60-year-old qualifies for a subsidy of ready for this $11,150. with the new house republican plan, he or she would get just $4,000. its that same $4,000 tax credit which means they would have to dig out more than $7,000 out of their own pocket to pay for additional coverage. lets look at 81% of the counties that voted for hillary clinton overall. in fact, a 60-year-old making $40,000 a year would see their ...

Obamacare completely and they call the current house republican care obamacare-lite. will the president use his own political capital to insist that the president put aside ideological differences and support the bill? on the campaign trail mr. trump -- >> well call it donald care. >> schmoozing lawmakers and so far not twisting arms. it was vice president mike pence in kentucky on saturday selling health care, not the president. >> for us to seize this opportunity to repeal and replace obamacar...

Trump care well be stuck with obamacare which is in deterioration. >> i think well slow down this week when the cbo number comes out. >> i think the bills going to pass. >> both the house and senate? >> absolutely, but we have no idea what the bill looks like yet. >> you think what we see now is -- >> it will go through changes, in my opinion. >> helene, does it happen this year? >> i dont think its going to pass, and i also think that we are going to be stuck with obamacare except were not goin...

Appreciate that the market as it is right now is failing. obamacare, the aca, has failed. you have premiums going up, you have deductibles where people have an insurance card, but they dont have any coverage. we have a third of the counties that only have one insurer offering coverage. five states offering only one insurance and that is not responsible to the individuals selecting the coverage. we need to fix this and move in a direction that puts patients, and doctors in charge not washington d...

Over where we are right noi as opposed to where the line is going right now where people are losing coverage and well have fewer individuals covered than we do currently. >> lets go to the financial feasibility here. in fayette county, west virginia, kaiser family foundation estimates the $4,000 tax credit that a 60-year-old making $30,000 a year will get under the american healthcare act is almost $8,000 less than they would get under obamacare. this is a county, by the way, that voted overwhel...

Obama administration what the point was, insure everybody. we know we had to fix insurance rules. people who were buying insurance on their own needed some financial help in the marketplace because they didnt have an employer contribution. you could keep kids on their parents plan and make medicaid equal across the country, whether you lived in georgia or california you qualified as a low-income adult at the same level. im not sure what the goal is here. so they have kept some pieces. the pre-ex...