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Price that into their insurance and you dramatically stabilize and lower the price of insurance. cbo cant quantify that right now because they havent looked at the new risk pool wisconsin will be setting up as a result of this law. so were very confident were moving the ball in the right direction. were restoring market freedom. we think this approach is just much smarter and better on how to deal with getting costs down, improving access, including people with preexisting conditions. you are th...

Poor americans more is a choice. choice as a word is the centerpiece of tom prices argument and theres nothing in in the proposal that promotes choice. you get more young people in the risk pool and that gets more insurers back in but the argument they also make im interested in your take on that and parts two and three will include they say buying insurance across state lines. does that fix the problem? >> well, thats been -- youve been hearing that for some time and it feeds into this idea tha...

Category, doesnt have to cover those costs and therefore its much more competitive and lower in price. we think thats a smarter way to go and we think people will want to participate in that kind of system. thats why if you dont get job-based insurance then you dont get any tax benefit to get a health care plan. with what were proposing equalize the tax treatment of health care so if you do not have health care from your job, you also get a tax benefit to buy in a functioning market place where ...

Opportunities to improve for more people. its the same way with all legislation, it takes a long time to get a good piece of legislation through both houses. this is a controversial subject. health care is very, very complex. >> it is complex and it takes a long time. youre hearing from the white house and other republicans we dont have that time right now. andy, let me bring you into this. you ran two of these big agencies, the centers for medicare and medicaid. when you look at what needs to h...

It. but the major irony here, craig, is that the insurance mandate and i the insurance mandate idea of it was conceived by the heritage foundation. one of the conservatives leading think tanks. this is something that they actually conceived. republicans and conservatives actually conceived. because they knew that the only way to make sure that we could really provide access to coverage for everyone is to put healthy people in the risk pool and spread that risk. when paul ryan did his dog and pon...

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...

Insurance and its exhausting. >> michelle johnson heads a non-profit that helps people across state access health care. the panic crosses party lips. >> these are folk voted if for trump or didnt vote, but mostly, people are calling the very afraid an theyre calling wanting us to say everything is going to be okay. >> the company blames quote, an unbalanced risk pool, meaning fewer healthy people on its rolls hurt iing business. tennessees health care system is already fragile. three quarters of...

And i just immediately called in here and said can we get him to stay up late? >> always my pleasure, lawrence. >> a point you made having grown up in canada, knowing that system and looking at this from a global perspective was to the republicans has been simply show me one example somewhere in the world that is a free market health insurance/health care system. >> there is -- not on this planet, there is no actual free market health system. thats because no profit-making company would ever cho...

Point, as a democrat, to stop that? >> well, as you point out, let me first point out, as president trump said, there is a lot of people who have coverage today who didnt have coverage before the affordable care act, people in the exchanges, people in the medicaid system. weve reduced in maryland our uninsured rates by half, from 12% to 6%. its critically important so we dont get cost shifting. the first thing we want to make sure is that we dont damage the quality coverage weve been able to exp...

To say everything is going to be okay. >> reporter: the company blames, quote, an unbalanced risk pool, meaning fewer healthy people on its rolls hurting business. humanas leaving follows recent move by competitors. the health care system is already fragile. three quarters of the states counties have only one health care provider through obamacare, according to the states department of insurance. >> it means we dont have a very bright future. it means that we are on very, very shaky footing. >> ...