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>> i think today -- i guarantee you, when im on a 2:00 panel with mr. graham and mr. cassidy, and theyre throwing that back, the thing im going to focus on is affordable insurance today. we will have lots of opportunity to talk about affordability in the long run, but this week we have got to make sure that cutting access to people under graham/cassidy is the focal point of how that is going to drive up costs in the private sector. so theres lots of ways to drive down costs, and what we need to ...

Single-payer. >> that could go single-payer. or cstate of tennessee and florida can experiment with a more market-based system. >> what you think of this bill james? is this better than what we have? >> certainly what we have is failing. i think sometimes it gets lost in the edebate over looking at the details of potential alternatives but this great system of competition we were supposed to get under obamacare next year, there are more than 1500 counties in the united states that will have only...

Opportunity. they will change is good i think one of the things help with this is around a unifying principle here there is something that brings republics together which is state rights. there are not many things out there that does unify the party that way. this is also a bipartisan tradition. the idea of involving more healthcare down to the states. because it is something democrats liked as well too. >> are you willing to live with the possibility that california and other states might decid...

Dan, what would this bill do? >> paul, i think it does, essentially, three things. it repeals the individual and employer mandates. it is going to repeal the 2.3% medical device tax, and most importantly, it replaces the money spent on tax credits and medicaid expansion with block grants back to the states which would allow the governors and the state legislators to design health care programs appropriate to the populations of their states. paul: now, those states would have to apply for waivers...

Absolutely justified. we are watching california -- is heading straight for not a train wreck but a train wreck over a cliff. its economically impossible tot achieve with what they are trying to do. single-payer at the state level? they are an economy thats one of the largest -- third in the world. >> sean: state income tax. >> the most taxed state in the union and productive people are fleeing california. a high network. the idea of graham-cassidy, block grants. all great to rally to. no, as a ...

>> democrat and republican governors are going to like the block grant to measure because it will give them greater autonomy and greater ability to meet the needs of their individual citizens. this is always a better thing for governments, by governments to be controlled closer to the people then further from the people. i want the states to be able to effectively meet the need and when you have doctors opting out of programs, states where you only have one provider you do not have adequate cove...

I am proud to stand before you, having introduced that legislation in the senate, with 16 co-sponsors. >> sanders and 16 democratic co-sfon sors in the senate mean about one-third of senate democrats support that bill. 120 democrats in the house. thats about two-thirds of the democrats in the house. among those who support the sanders bill, senators harris, elizabeth warren, corey booker. all of those as you know have been talked about as potential 2020 democratic hopefuls. >> neil: do you get a...

Way. >> lets talk about the health care debate. big health care debate on this network on monday night. graham/cassidy. the sponsors, the authors of the new republican legislation, also bernie sanders, big proponent of single payer with his plan and amy clo shar, who interestingly, hasnt signed on to it. could this be really good for republicans, meaning its not pitting graham/cassidy against obamacare. its pitting graham/cassidy against medicaid for all, single payer, et cetera? a politico repo...

>> i think your fears are absolutely justified. we are watching california -- is heading straight for not a train wreck but a train wreck over a cliff. its economically impossible to achieve with what they are trying to to do. single-payer at the state level? they are an economy thats one of the largest -- >> sean: state income tax. to speak of the state in the use and make union and productive people are fleeing california. a high network. the idea of graham-cassidy, block grants. all great to ...

Single-payer. that is a $32 trillion price tag. >> diametrically opposed. >> we believe the best way is to move power back to the states where they can find programs working better for them. its pro states -- >> i accepted. thank you, sir. >> i think we ought to give this approach a chance. we still have an opportunity to do that until the end of next week, but the issue is not going away. we will be dealing with is going forward because this individual marketplace is in free fall. everybody kno...