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Gets in a car wreck. for example, if we do it then the cruise amendment its a good one. >> chris: as it now stands, it is a nonstarter for you? >> i dont know the limit. if it turns out its two plants. >> chris: thats what hes described. >> thats okay, with two risk pools, then thats bad. >> chris: thats what hes described. >> no, he has not yet designated if you have a single risk pool or two. if it is a single risk pool, that works. if it is too, that is the obama care re-created. we need to d...

Spent on research and development here, look at things like cancer. the amount thats been done here, people come from all over the world to get experimental treatments here. all of that happens here. when you go to more of a socialized route, youre not going to see that happen. >> even though in those other systems with universal coverage, life expectancy at birth in general is actually higher. so where america succeeds on cancer, it doesnt succeed as much with heart disease, with diabetes, with...

Companies dont know what is coming next, all these people involved in the industry cant predict what is coming down the road. >> absolutely right, chris is a really smart guy, he also knows that part of the reason everything is collapsing is because of president trumps executive order withdrawing subsidies to the insurance companies, of course they arent pulling out of the market. there are already issues that needed to be addressed with obamacare. business executives want some idea of what is c...

Attract more monyoung people to join the exchanges because we immediate more young people to spread the risk pool and reduce the costs. >> democrats, at least some of them will never let this happen because they dont want to give the president a win, i know you have heard that, what do you say to them? >> look, im just tell you what some republicans and i did about a week and a half ago, we came together on a bipartisan basis to basically pass a bill unanimously through the u.s. house of represe...

And i frankly dont know what to tell them. i dont know what the end game is for republicans and they seem to be looking that the as a game. this is life and death for way too many people. >> so your overall argument has been its not that obamacare has been a failure but instead, you know, as a framework but instead it has been undermined and that has weakened a health care plan that youve long believed in. >> well, there are some things that would be helpful to fix, having the ability to have a ...

Having the ability to have a balanced risk pool and helping insurance companies who have tomorrow older and sicker people signing up. that was in the original law, not funded by the republicans. its in both the house and senate bills. its a great idea. do that. i think we need to take a look at who gets subsidies and more people have said they really need some help. thats a good idea. lower the level of out of pocket costs, do something about drug prices, which every american is complaining abou...

At 34 out of 35 developed countries in the world, look at 58% of the worlds economies they use universal health care because the best pool is the biggest pool. >> we -- but the best pool you dont have to put high risk people in the pool. you dont do it for auto insurance. you dont need to do it for health insurance. furthermore from the health policy point of view, people who are in that pool have chronic disease. we can treat them with chronic disease management when theyre in the pool which is...

Rising premiums. this doesnt address the rising premiums and originally when we need health care reform, we need a health care reform because people are going to the e.r., they had no insurance, they had no preventative care. my husband is a physician. this is a huge problem. youre going to have rural hospitals closing when you have medicaid cut over time. in addition to that, if you dont have a mandate and people dont have to buy insurance, what happens? there are less people on the insurance r...

The rationale is trying to bolster the marketplace in general. this is an incentive for people to not go without coverage, essentially. trying to invent vise people to expand the risk pool, trying to dysincentivize those who might be less healthy. this is something theyre done. the cbo score should help reps. it would be excluded, and if you think about the house bill 23 million fewer week -- the hopes is by having this almost on the th

Federal deficit. your response to this score. >> i dont quite understand it. for example, premiums are predicted to go up next year even though were throwing an additional $15 billion at it. i think im told thats because they anticipate the risk pool will be getting bad. the risk pool is already terrible. secondly, as regards the uninsured by 2026, one thing that has been in the phil, which is automatic enrollment. if you automatically enroll, youll have more folks in the pool than if you had a ...