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>> i dont think so because this does serious damage to the whole marketplace theory and companies will flee given the uncertainty and the likelihood, this quickly becomes a high-risk pool. >> they make the argument, by the way, that companies are fleeing now because they feel as if its too expensive to try to insure everybody and we do have this issue in rural america. its truly the rural counties that have been hit the hardest on the obamacare when it comes to the word choice. >> i think thats ...

Older americans being able to be charged five times what younger americans are being charged, and with no variation based on income that more people will have coverage. theres everest nation that anywhere from 2 million to 15 million people will lose coverage in this bill and there are going after medicaid expansion which is a lot of lower income, working adults who will also lose that coverage. >> what do you say to conservatives who worry that the medicaid expansion thats in obamacare will onl...

Sense of urgency that you need to do this, dont you say this is enough? dont you make ricks argument? >> first of all, who can explain what donald trump says about anything? i kind of find it that sean spicer was laughing. >> it was funny the way it was phrased. >> as someone who lived through those jobs reports, they were very important when they were shedding jobs a month. i agree with rick that we have to look at other things if we want to increase productivity and we need to make investments...

Way, would be flexible. i have no doubt that he would be flexible. he just wants to get something through. >> the idea of getting democrats involved here. the other day president trump kind of expressed what sounded like a conspiracy theory about obamacare and implosion in 2017. take a listen. >> 17 would be a disaster for obamacare. thats the year it was meant to explode because obama wont be here. that is what it was supposed to be. as bad as it is now, it will get worse. is this a way to ince...

Costs. >> age is also -- and this is a part of obamacare that didnt work which was to try to get as many young people on the system. they needed 40% of folks under 35 in the system to keep premiums down. it hasnt gotten to that. how do you do it? how does it do it here? because this system seems to essentially say to folks under 35, dont worry about it. if you dont want to get health care were not going to make you do it and that only increases premiums for older folk, does it not? >> no. what w...

Current obamacare system and the time to make any sweeping change is right now. >> this is the closest we will ever get to repealing and replacing obamacare. >> republicans racing the political clock to push through a health care replacement bill have a message. >> republicans unified. >> we are unified. >> we are really excited about the unified vote. >> but the fight over health care is exposing divisions within the republican party. between small government conservatives, swing state moderate...

Which has covered 700,000 people in my state, a big chunk of whom are ill and drug addicted and have chronic a diseases. the bill needs fixed. the current system doesnt work and thats why its possible to get democrats involved, but you dont want to throw the baby out with the bathwater. let me ask you this, chuck. if i put you an exchange for your family and i give you a $4,000 tax credit or $3,000, what kind of insurance are you going to buy for $3,000? will you be offer any in the state of ohi...

$7500 in federal assistance for health care, they voted 60-35, trump over clinton. so in other words, financially, in this plan, its trump folks that get hurt more than clinton voters. look, president trump was elected largely on to repeal and replace the affordable care act. trump supporters may get the repeal, but higher costs could come as part of that deal. coming up, why the trump administration suddenly thinks this car is traveling over 200 miles per hour. to win, every millisecond matters...

>> simply would not pass the senate. >> its dead on arrival. >> tax credits are a government giftaway and they want obamacares expansion phased out quickly and then there are republican moderates meaning fierce opposition at town hall. they are pushing back on the plan to phase out the medicaid expansion by 2020 and to cap federal funding by medicaid enrollees. >> in ohio we have the expanded medicare. >> pulling the rug out from the vulnerable populations is not really the direction we want to ...

Oversaw obamacare implementation, and governor john kasich of ohio who says both parties need to work together. plus the russia connection. democrats threaten to pull out of the investigation if it becomes too partisan. and when we hear statements like this -- >> 17 would be a disaster for obamacare. thats the year it was meant to explode because obama wont be here. >> are we becoming conditioned to dismiss what the president of the united states says? joining me for insight and analysis are -- ...