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Portability, erasing state lines, health care savings accounts, i can recite hisab agenda better than these republicans can, thats pretty pathetic. they have had years to come up with a replacement. you republicans, why dont you have a consensus plan by this time? the american people are suffering, they voted for you to fix this disastrous health care system and you should have had a plan in place. president trumps tax plan for example, republicans are also dragging their feet on that spirit the...

>> does your plan penalize folks who dont sign up for coverage in some way? >> it does. >> it sounds a lot like obamacare. >> no, no, no, again, you cant wait until you found that you have terminal cancer to say now i think ill get insurance. it does penalize those folks and thats very different than obamacare. >> in what other ways is your plan different? are we allowing insurance companies to sell across state sflin lines? >> absolutely. >> are there other differences? >> it decouples health i...

Assuming new roles. >> kevin brady, republican, texas, house ways and means he said were getting after repeal and replace right away. he said were confident we can do it and do it the right way and he talked about portability of plans. thats an issue but its not the issue when it comes to what is most expensive and whats most important. >> no, thats right. i think that at the moment before we get to that phase we dont actually know what versions of a plan that we are even talking about. there is...

Campaign trail. portability, it has to handle pre-existing conditions. those people cannot be pushed out of the possibility of getting insurance. but then there should be free factors. catastrophic care as rand paul told me, its illegal to buy it. it is a great idea for young people. secondly, doctors, i know this guy, in wichita, kansas. who got a cooperative. people can get all the care they want short of surgery. and sell that much cheaper rates. and third, health savings accounts. the answer...

And should they have had a plan in place already? >> yeah, they should. the president is warning us right here. people attribute the greatest line of shakespeare advice is to thine own self be true. it is not the best piece of advice, is not even accurate. the best piece of advice shakespeare gave is readiness is all. be ready. whats most important is having a plan that is ready. it takes a little more time, thats okay with me. weve got to avoid the obama mistakes, sean. we know what they were. ...

While premiums may have gone down in certain places, deductibles have gone up. someone thohas to pay for the mandates. tax credits, universal access, portability are all part of a republican plan. >> megan k. all that get tied up with a bow and delivered, you know, one, two, three, like -- i mean donald trump never worked would be the government before. hes not even run a public company with all the arms and legs. he can really make this happen in such short snored. >> its been seven years for r...

And all of them have certain common elements, for example, the portability of health care, so youre not beholden to an employer for your health insurance. boy, that makes sense. the fact that anyone can compete for your health insurance and you get to pick the kind of health insurance you want to buy. gee, that makes sense. we got into this because government regulated health insurance. government has been part of the problem here for a really long time. so i think there are multiple plans, and ...

Everyone can have quality affordable health care. >> you actually can afford health care. everyone cant. dont you think at this point its almost irresponsible for the republican party not to be able to say what they are going to replace obamacare with? its not perfect, but they said they will repeal it and havent said what they are going to replace it with. >> actually -- >> what else are you going to do? >> there are several plans on how to replace it. at least six that im aware of. all of them...

And im open to hearing them are sell across state lines -- anything else? >> portability. >> thats going across state lines. it really is astonishing that after all this time the republicans dont have the health care plan. >> those are the buzzwords. across state lines. free market. marketplace. everybody to who has pre-exi pre-existing conditions can remain. >> once you add those elements he talked about in the "60 minutes" interview youre back to obamacare or some version of it because the rea...

Who now have health insurance will still be able to have some health insurance. are you willing to delay the implementation of something new in order to prevent people from suffering? >> i think everybody understands its a phase-in, phase-out, no question at all. thats what the affordable care act, obamacare, was when it was first implemented. the tax was phased in quickly. >> they cant really repeal it until they have something ready to replace it. >> repeal simply means you do the action of co...