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It has nothing to do with hurricanes and sneaking it through. it has everything to do with the fact that republicans cant do this via reconciliation after september 30. >> bret: "the federalist" will probably say its not the ultimate federalism. >> thats the big argument. it allows flexibility in the states. they can do they want. you can see which ideas work better. theres a little bit of an inherent bias cooked in. if you want to move towards single-payer you dont need a waiver from hhs. if yo...

Focus of the criticism today. lets bring in the panel. stephen hayes, editor-in-chief of "the weekly standard." mollie hemingway, senior editor at "the federalist" and charles lane, opening writer for "the washington post." lets talk about the substance. what this bill does and what he doesnt do. >> this bill does not repeal and replace obamacare. it keeps most obamacare taxes and spending but block grants to states after 2020. the main selling point is flexibility. lindsey graham making the arg...

Way to answer that? >> single-payer is one of the ways to make a simpler system. this graham cassidy planned to have 50 different health care systems in the united states is not the right plan either. i would prefer a simple universal german style system. >> jon: what would it do? >> you can think about that essentially as a single private insurance market for everyone, the insurers are intelligently regulated to provide value. in the united states we have medicaid, medicare, the va, employer sp...

Fellow senator elizabeth warren is cosponsoring the bill. what are the benefits, if any? joining us now, former policy director for the romney campaign and counselor for the bay area economic institute. a single-payer, other countries have it. doesnt work? >> other countries have it but i think what people often dont realize is other countries have significant private sector influences in their systems as well. i think a lot of times supporters overstate the case. those countries are having trem...

We know estimates now show more than 45% of the counties in america are going to have just one insurer to choose from in 2018. cbo which you mentioned has as meted health care premiums are sent to rise an additional 15%. we had ceos of insurance companies say obamacare is in a death spiral. these are real things that need to be addressed and what other democratic answers, single-paye single-payer? >> harris: we head into a new weekend. its interesting because democrats are going to be rolling th...

Focus of the criticism today. lets bring in the panel. stephen hayes, editor-in-chief of "the weekly standard." mollie hemingway, senior editor at "the federalist" and charles lane, opening writer for "the washington post." lets talk about the substance. what this bill does and what he doesnt do. >> this bill does not repeal and replace obamacare. it keeps most obamacare taxes and spending but block grants to states after 2020. the main selling point is flexibility. lindsey graham making the arg...

It has nothing to do with hurricanes and sneaking it through. it has everything to do with the fact that republicans cant do this via reconciliation after september 30. >> bret: "the federalist" will probably say its not the ultimate federalism. >> thats the big argument. it allows flexibility in the states. they can do they want. you can see which ideas work better. theres a little bit of an inherent bias cooked in. if you want to move towards single-payer you dont need a waiver from hhs. if yo...

Pharmacy is about 20% of the benefits. everything else in there are things like mental health, that people dont know if theyre going to need, but they also are not very expensive. people want to know that when they get a policy, they can rely on it and senator alexander -- i think we should let senator alexander run with it and at the end of this if we get to a place where both parties are committed to making this thing better, will be better off. >> jon: single-payer is what democrats want. the...

Keeps 90% of obamacare in place. graham cassidy is not repeal or replace, it is more obamacare light." and this is just interesting right now, chuck schumer, because we mention his name, so -- im not saying he has an event because we mention him, but wild, he is having an event. later to push against this, but democrats, how do they win if they promise to be bipartisan? >> christopher: at no point will this bill be bipartisan. maybe if they persist through on a partisan level, maybe they can com...

>> bret: we should have put the list that didnt get through. its a little bit further out there. >> the regulation issue is huge. they have the ability to hurt businesses all over the country because they have such a large market. the idea -- you have people in california who think illegal immigrants should be able to vote but that a person who is eligible to be president should be placed on the ballot if he doesnt hand over his private tax records. thats something that im -- i dont know enough ...