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It segments that theres nothing obvious thats new in the bill to try to slow the groo growth because of the third party payer system we have through provider services and medicare and the like. so im not sure that -- >> you ryan, sorry to interrupt you. given the frustration that these lawmakers have heard from americans as they went home to their districts and home states right now, why wouldnt a smarter effort going forward be to do something bipartisan in this limited moment right here? the p...

I think we will get a bill out of the senate in july. >> i appreciate this conversation. now when im speaking to democrats, im going to ask them if they can consider other forms of universal health coverage for a lot of people that may not be single payer system if that doesnt appeal to you. i appreciate the conversation. >> or any fix for this problem. so far, theyve not offered anything? i dont know that to be true. but i will take you at your word that thats what democrats you spoken to said ...

That somehow will buy his vote into this. thats an important issue, but to buy a vote into a poisonous bill overall, its meaningless. all of this an effort to get a majority of votes in the senate without working in a bipartisan way. >> in the spirit of bipartisanship, there are a lot of members in your conference who want to go the other direction, they want a single payer system. with that in mind, would they settle for just a bipartisan fix to obamacare? >> i think many of us, including mysel...

Called business leaders transforming health care. warren buffet said rising medical costs are the tape worn that are hurting american competitiveness. they said it is time to talk about a single payer system. >>. >> i have not thumbed through the whole thing just yet, but there is a section that was introduced this morning, and among the tax cuts, the medical device tax, a tanning tax that would be gone, but there is also what appears to be a retro active capital gains tax cut. why would that be...

Bankrupt the whole country, spend whatever we can come up with and only go to a single payer system to make bernie sanders happy. if you think government should be the monopoly deliverer of healthcare this aint your cup of tea. >> bill: krauthammer is arguing were seven years away from single pay. what the white house would argue we have to get healthcare done because there are so many tax dollars in obamacare. we can free up money and work toward tax reform. can they work for it now or are you ...

>> president xi wants to do the right thing. we had a very good bonding. >> reporter: during his campaign, trump repeatedly slammed federal reserve chair janet yellen. >> she is obviously political. and she is doing what obama wants her to do. >> reporter: this week the president changed his tune, telling the "wall street journal" i like her, i respect her. switching positions is hardly new for donald trump. after all, not long before he ran as an anti-abortion, anti-obamacare republican, he was...

Dark side of universal care, the cancer drugs you dont get in europe because they put in roi. youre a certain age. your life expectancy does not justify the cost and youre not going to get the treatment. we give people 85 years old a replacement hip if they need it and people making 20 grand. i dont understand why you are unwilling to own that reality it seems to be a wheel of progress because youre trying to have it both ways. >> its not a reality until it happens and we dont agree on the peopl...

That we will call for a moment. it was trying to create a federal one payer system. if we begin means testing people were carefully, we began providing assistance, but maybe not as generous and asking states to pay their fair share. we began to move towards perhaps 50 million people who will have to change. they wont be anyone other care. they wont be the classic medicaid, but it will be people in between who may receive a credit to have to come out of their pocket a little more for thstate to h...

What do they say? the problem is the republicans and -- you can correct me if you want. they think the free market solves this problem. they had plenty of time when george bush was president and they were running congress to come up with a health care flan and they didnt because they dont think its the job of the government. now theyre stuck in a situation where fox business morning moved the conversation to a point where americans now view this as not an entitlement, but a right. so, republican...

For 63 days or something like that, you can be charged a premium plus 30%, but i am giving the points of push back from the other side. they will say that health care is not a right, and you cant force me to buy something just because its good for somebody else. and that this comes down to single payer versus choice within a system, and that thats what people wanted and thats what the election determined. some people may not get the same coverage, but everybody will have access and thats what fr...