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Single insurance company left, if you have that. that includes philadelphia, where i went to school. the associated press found that some of the 440,000 pennsylvania consumers who buy insurance through healthcare.gov will face some of the highest premium increases in the nation. people of philadelphia. insurers are leaving, premiums are soaring, doctors are quitting, deductibles go through the roof. hiring is frozen, totally frozen and wages are being slashed. obama care means higher prices, few...

Have co-oped us that way. >> on the one hand, republicans have to show they are making progress toward repealing obamacare because thats one thing. obamacare does not have great numbers. with some subset it does. >> you cant take it away from people. >> thats the whole communications argument. i dont think youll see a replacement plan. youll see incremental legislative changes to get to where they want to go. not a massive comprehensive package. >> the fights are definitely here but again the qu...

Certain aspects that are massively popular and to undo them would be to kill your own political future. i think what hell do is hell fiddle around with it and call it trump care. you know? hell adjust it in this way and that. >> no. hell make good on promises. 32,000 pages in the affordable act known as obamacare and maybe 1 or 2 good things, even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day. having said that, hes made clear the replacement plan. >> trump also has big plans for infrastructur...

Plan and they worry a quick change of regulation could mean they are no longer covered. we are seeing instances of people making healthcare choices based on the assumption that they think that the affordable care act will be going away. so i dont necessarily see the spiking numbers as a sign that the law is alive and well but rather that a lot of people realize that the political winds have shifted and republicans now control multiple levers of government that they can use to undo aca and people...

This seems like a good one to focus on. >> to jessicas point, you have to have that 51 vote margin. and because some of the republicans are concerned, the question is will he be able to make that magical number, that will be key. lets turn to the second topic, the plan to repeal and replace obama care. senate finance committee chairman orin hatch saying i would like to do it tomorrow. but in the real world right now they say it cant wait. the history of this place is "the longer it takes, the mo...

It would level the playing field. it would not tax certain imports or companies has trump has proposed a deal. but they want to make clear and republicans have gotten good at poll tisching their responses to donald trumps comments instead of going after him saying this is an anti-capitalist idea, they say we understand his frustration but we think it would be better to let the free market decide. or we think it would be better to let our tax plan -- let businesses thrive and keep jobs in the u.s...

Are no longer law. so there is literally no abrupt change it it change, its been the expectation from the beginning and they will be able to do that with very little problem. the problem becomes a replacement plan. they understand that. theyre beginning that work now. in doing that replacement plan, it will say effective january 1, 2020, something like that, the following conditions will prevail. they will be cognizant of the 10 million people in the exchanges. they will understand that those pi...

It when millions of people could lose. >> we will do it simultaneously. it will be fine. >> how is that simultaneous replacement going to work? donald trump said do you want to keep in the popular elements of obamacare that young people can keep their coverage until 26 underneath their parents and folks with preexisting conditions would not be impacted. what would this look like? how do do you this? >> donald trump said there is a cost to this. president obama said its free. its not free. there ...

26 to stay on their parents plans. so there are aspects weve all along agreed to. >> under obamacare, as you know, millions of people were able to get health insurance for the first time through the expansion of medicaid. what is going happen to those people? will they lose coverage under your plan? >> well, what i encourage people to do is go to better.gop. its number five on our plan. we put the most detail of anybody that puts out a obamacare replacement plan. and it is to have an answer for ...

>> i think first of all, when were talking about the affordable care act and the repeal and replacement, i think what he is talking about is reflecting on the conversation he had with president obama when he was there meeting with him. it has been our plan in congress as republicans, our replacement plan has always included the very things that he is reflecting upon. whether you take that as revising the system or replacing it, either way, the accomplishment was always going to be there and the ...