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That john lewis could better help his country if he would work with president-elect trump rather than saying things against him. shep? >> theres a trickle of information about the healthcare plan that donald trump says hes working on. >> youll remember at the press conference last week at trump tower, he said it should happen simultaneously, the repeal and replacement of obamacare. now we heard that the plan is almost cooked. what donald trump is waiting for is for his hhs secretary, dr. tom pri...

I will point out secretary clinton has started talking about the public option as an alternative, frankly, what she needs to move to. theres no question that the obamacare -- the rising premiums are going to hurt people but i think that for donald trump to make the argument and republicans to make the argument theyre the solution, they want to throw all the people covered by obamacare off obamacare so they wont have coverage and would not preserve the pre-existing condition -- >> trump claims he...

Didnt -- because we didnt go to a single payer system -- wait, let me just make this point. because we didnt go to a government system, we are depending on the private sector that does have variable costs. >> thats right. so christine, you heard what hilary was saying. what if obamacare was repealed? like what would happen to insurance rates then? the insurance companies -- inguess it would revert back to the way it was so the health care costs would continue to go up? >> insurance rates and hea...

Not only are the rates going up by numbers nobody believed, but the deductibles are going up. unless you get hit by a truck, you will never be able to use it. its a disastrous planned and has to be repeal and replaced. >> let me follow-up, your husband called obamacare the craziest thing in the world and coverage is cut in half. was he mistaken or telling the truth. >> he clarified what he meant. we are in a situation where if we were to start all over again, we might come up with a different sy...

Your campaign lacks enthusiasm. >> youre repeating the echo of the narrative. look, if you went to the event, you would have found there was a lot of enthusiasm. there is a big difference between donald trump and me. im a proven conservative with a record. he isnt. i cut taxes. hes proposed the largest tax increase in mankinds history. i have been consistently pro-life. he until recently was for partial-birth abortion. ive never met a person that actually thought that was a good idea. i think we...

Looking, right? what was trumps position then? he was for the bailouts. obamacare became an all dominant issue for us for three or four years and still a dominant issue. what was his position? hes always been for single payer system and always been for obamacare. now hes changed these positions now that hes a republican but he used to always say that democrats were better at running things. >> so donald trump responded and he didnt just -- it wasnt just a little quip. it was a little bit differe...

And its not expensive to the united states. we pay more for health care than any other country and get worse outcomes. we pay 20% to private health insurance companies just in overhead administrative costs. its based on profits. and 2% in medicare because its much more efficient for the government. if the government provided a single payer system for everybody. anybody could access it. ted cruz wouldnt be in the bind. >> 60 million glrz in medicare. >> yeah, theres no waste there. none whatsoeve...

>> something is going on. >> something is going on. its called politics. they got crushed in the election. not that the republican leaders have any idea that the american people voted to stop obama not to fall over and surrender, which seems to be their plan now. harkin just saw his state lose a senate seat they should have had, jeopardize other seats. other democrats are looking and saying were going to go under on this stuff. that is what is happening. harkin, who wanted a sing the payer syste...

Over a million people at any one time are on waiting lists, waiting lists are to government medicine. >> senator, youre a senator but doctor and point out waiting lists. dont waiting lists imply rashening? do you expect to see rashening, it gets to a point where its almost a single payer system? >> yeah, rationening is inherent to it. you see it in england and canada. any time something is free, people will like to use it and so many people show up, that the government then has to set strict rul...

Exchanges and they find out its a costly endeavor and theyre not able to afford it. they are passing this off onto the federal government and theyre trying to set up the exchanges. the fact of the matter is were just dealing with the website and its failing miserably. >> lets say youre right. some say that was their goal originally but they gave up when there wasnt much political appetite for it. how do we move from failed exchanges to the united states government if people have had it with exch...