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Your plan, save money. millions lost their doctors and their plans and only have one option in their county or city and everybody paid at least double. so now shes gonna take 177 million americans, private insurance away. you will have no choice remember after she said that, her campaign backtracked. but then today she backtracked from the backtracked. but lawrence is talking to people that dont care about how any of this will be paid for. they think money grows on trees or it will come like m...

Barack obama-like. why? >> because shes dynamic. she has a credible voting history as relates to those in the democratic establishment. she does have a liberal voting record as a u.s. senator as short-lived as that has been. but her bigger issue to not really sell this to the general american voter but really all party. you have u.s. senators like tim kaine and others that are not there yet as relates to eliminating the private payer system and extending medicare for all. so even with her own ra...

Just a couple of handfuls really of confetti. imagine 1.5 million tons of the stuff. thats how much will come down on new years eve. back to this, we can say this the celebration of democrats and all the money theyre going to spend. it is our money chopped up in little pieces. celebrating a common sense. >> exactly! we havent even mentioned medicare for all. that has been estimated to cost up to $3 trillion. that is the entire budget, it would mean youd have to get rid of everything, defense, so...

Welcome back to "hardball." elections matter, dont they? they decide who governs and capable of sending powerful messages. the 2018 election wants the government to be responsible for healthcare. mitch mcconnell made that official yesterday saying the republican party will no longer try to kill obamacare. this is a case of history just happening. not that either party has decided how the government should provide its mandate to provide access to affordable healthcare, but that it exists. no futu...

Have the optics of that happening tonight. that said, during some of the preamble, you know, there were a number of speakers before the president arrived at that airport hangar. and there were moments earlier on where the press was booed. there was also one of the speakers talked about hillary clinton and you had one of those "lock rer up" chants that trumps crowds often erupt into. so even though you didnt see those elements when trump was on stage, they still happened tonight at that rally. >>...

>> i wouldnt even characterize his remarks tonight as nice. i mean, he used very heated rhetoric talking about the socialist takeover of the national health care system, a system that is -- right now its not a single payer system. there is medicare and medicaid, but this is not a single payer system. you have the president, hes always tempered for a moment at the urging of some of his advisers. but this is a president who cannot resist political combat. and hes betting that incendiary messages w...

People in the past have tried to spit at reporters, so he did not have the optics of that happening tonight. that said, during some of the preamble, you know, there were a number of speakers before the president arrived at that airport hangar. and there were moments earlier on where the press was booed. there was also one of the speakers talked about hillary clinton and you had one of those "lock rer up" chants that trumps crowds often erupt into. so even though you didnt see those elements when...

Republican senators come up with different solutions and learned from each other hand great solution. i love this idea of passing it onto states and letting state legislatures figure it out. massachusetts is not the same as texas. texas will come up with reforms. and massachusetts can have a single payer system if they want to. >> let me ask you about a key piece, its about pre-existing conditions. thats a huge piece. and republicans say yes they will be protected but my understanding the bill w...

I guess weve had this conversation before but i want to ask you again, larry. in the various forms of university health care that the world and the developed world use, only a few use a single payer system. whats the advantage of it? >> thats right. most countries -- in fact every other industrialized country that university coverage means everyone has health coverage. few use a pew single payer system like senator sanders is proposing. look if designing something from scratch, and wanted to gua...

One is what should the market look like ideally? what is the best way, the most efficient way to get everybody in america covered with health insurance? and thats really the goal. universal health care for all, but i think short term we have to have a stable market or not just the people signing up with obamacare subsidies but folks who are mom and pop shops, farm families, others who may not qualify for subsidies are actually meeting some place to buy health insurance short term. >> so youre no...