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The cost of the coverage increases. so they have pegged it to age. there is an opportunity to put some means testing in there, but thats not the most -- thats not the correlation factor to what it actually costs. age is the thing that correlates best. >> but age is also -- i mean, this is also -- and this is a part of obamacare that didnt work, which is 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. how do you do it? how...

>> im not sure exactly what the goal is. we we pretty clear in the obama administration what the point was, insure everybody. we know we had to fix insurance rules. people who were buying insurance on their own needed some financial help in the marketplace because they didnt have an employer contribution. you could keep kids on their parents plan and make medicaid equal across the country, whether you lived in georgia or california you qualified as a low-income adult at the same level. im not su...

Sharing. i was interested in the piece in this bill that has a state stability pool, recognizing that you really do need to get stable market. this also was a mononoll listic market for decades before the affordable care act. i was in florida last year. pat geghty, who is the head of elue cross blue shield of florida, florida has not been a welcoming state to this law. pat geraghty ended up 2016 open enrollment with one million members in the florida marketplace and as a company in the black. he...

System cant be run by the free market alone. >> no, not at all. obviously, this is a transition were going through, but the important thing is to appreciate that the market as it is right now is failing. obamacare and the aca has failed. youve got premium going up a deductibles where people have an insurance card but no coverage. a third of the counties in this nation who only have one insurer offering coverage. thats not a choice, nor is it responsible to the individuals who are going to be sel...

So im not sure that president trump thinks that far ahead. he was looking for the easy victory and easy score. >> this gets to the issue of president trump and it goes to this comment he made that obamacare was to implode in 2017. he so easily grabs on to a myth to make a quick point and it backfires on him. >> one of the reasons this country is great and pretty successful is we have institutions that are basically pretty honest and of course, they make mistakes and we have the bureau of labor s...

Obamacare which is in deterioration. >> i think well slow down this week when the cbo number comes out. >> i think the bills going to pass. >> both the house and senate? >> absolutely, but we have no idea what the bill looks like yet. >> you think what we see now is -- >> it will go through changes, in my opinion. >> helene, does it happen this year? >> i dont think its going to pass, and i also think that we are going to be stuck with obamacare except were not going to fix whats wrong with it w...

They kept some subsidiesubsidie would say in the wrong place to the wrong folks. >> i understand on that. but if this were the plan in place and you and president obama were back in office in four years and you could reimplement obamacare, could this architecture be used? >> i dont think so. because i think 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 tha...

The matter is it will put us in a bind. now, that doesnt mean that we cant fix this along the way. but we need to have democrats involved so that what we do is going to be not only significant but will last and then we get to the real problem, chuck, which is the rising costs of health care. and thats where santelli really hit the nail on the head. we need to get to more of a market driven system where we pay for quality, not for quantity in health care. i think the president, by the way, would ...

Day. >> many stay any new plan would be a vast improvement over the current system and the time say they 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 unified. >> were really excited about the unified votes. >> but the fight over health care is exposing divisions with...

She was and is a strong advocate of obamacare. she joins me now. nice to see you. >> nice to see you. >> let me start with a question about the republican plan and whether you accept the idea that this is obamacare-lite. do you believe they kept the architecture of obamacare in place? >> im not sure what the goal is. we were rapretty clear in the obama administration what the goal was. we knew we had to change insurance rules to do that. no more pre-existing conditions. people who. >> reporter: ...