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Mandate which is being terminated under our just signed tax cut bill. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell didnt say obamacare is dead today. here he is calling on senators to work together on health care legislation. >> the graham/cassidy proposal, they intend to obviously continue to work on. and my view of that is as soon as we have the votes to achieve it id like to do that. 51-49 is a pretty tight majority. but id love to be able to make more substantial changes to obamacare than we have....

Health care compared to other wealthy countries around the world is that we do not have an adequately large and diverse risk pool for people who wish to buy insurance outside of their workplace. thats what the individual mandate was supposed to achieve, getting more and more people to buy insurance so that youve got young and healthy people along with the sick. taking the mandate out, do we not end up once again with a shrunken risk pool of older and sicker people whose health care costs more? >...

Any offsetting increase in subsidies. >> so bottom line here, when you hear talk about this being the beginning of the end of obamacare, fair or not fair? >> no, i dont think so. i think the structure is basically there. for example, if you -- and there are even things that states can do. here in massachusetts, we had an individual mandate from the get-go in 2006 and it is still on the books, it is still in place. this is a no revenue -- in fact slight revenue enhancement to states if those who ...

A crate and barrel situation for the republicans. they broke it, they own it. president trump has said, you know, every time there is a problem with health care now its because obamacare is a disaster. because the republicans have now gotten rid of the individual mandate, every time health insurance rates go up, as they always do, its now going to be on the republicans to explain it. they can try to keep blaming barack obama, its going to be -- its going to get even tougher to do that. >> they c...

That cheap. they end up 60% of 70% of a regular health plan. and thats not actually that cheap. it wont bring a lot of people in. it is true, i agree with the president, we need more choice. but all of his actions, changing the rules have way through open enrollment, cutting back on the cost-sharing subsidies, all of these changes are driving insurance companies wacky. they dont know what the risk pool is going to be. so they are increasing rates or just getting out of the market. that is hardly...

Speaking with reporters. lets listen in. >> a high risk pool which would help level out insurance premiums. >> you have seen projections. what do you say to middle class americans? >> everything these people are telling you i believe to be wrong. if this bill works the way i think all these loud people will have proven to be loud and i will have proven to be right. if it doesnt do what i think it will do then we will lose. we will rise and fall on how this effects the american people. does it cr...

President will use another executive order to do something else to the existing plan before there ever is a replacement? what do people do if theyre counting on it. in the interim your plan skplars and you have nothing? >> this is where this is headed, the president is using this partisan political tactics, hes the one that criticized president obama for all these executive orders, now he has 50 executive orders. i want to explain what ben is saying. by creating these markets across the country,...

Conference, he said this is the beginning of a dismantling of the aca. i think were going to have to figure out whether he means it or whether this is his rhetoric. >> the theme is the aca tried to create this marketplace where you had healthy people and sick people and old people and young people, everyone pooling the risk together, smooth out the risk, you can charge premiums that are acceptable, subsidized by the golf. the theme it seems of everything theyve done on this legislation at the ex...

Figure out whether he means it or whether this is his rhetoric. >> the theme is the aca tried to create this marketplace where you had healthy people and sick people and old people and young people, everyone pooling the risk together, smooth out the risk, you can charge premiums that are acceptable, subsidized by the golf. the theme it seems of everything theyve done on this legislation at the executive level is hiving off healthy people, stopping the outreach to get them in giving them other op...

Know what senate, but the presidents sabotaging obamacare. obamacare is sabotaged health care and insurance in this country. it sucker punched people by forcing them to pay for insurance for sick people. thats what the exchange is, forcing healthy people to buy plans they dont want and dont need to pay for sick people. >> juan: here the concept. you have a risk pool and everybody jumps in the pool. >> kennedy: you can call it whatever you want. its of ponzi scheme. >> juan: heres a ponzi scheme ...