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The money, you know. thats something we can do in congress. if we did it in a bipartisan way. we were making progress in the senate with alexander and murray, and when the graham/cassidy bill came forward, that halted that. we can go back and put that funding in place, and i dont think the president going after his own party is helpful either. hes alienating them, and i think affecting the ability of both democrats and republicans to sort it out. >> the court did say its not legal, correct? >> w...

We think there could be some more state flexibility with guardrails in place to allow skates to get waivers in place place -- states to get waivers in place more quickly. we also think you could push down premiums by, say, 15 or 20% if you put in place a so-called reinsurance program, and that would a make the market more stable and bring plans back to the market which would help choice and competition for consumers. eric: whats that, when you talk about a reinsurance program? what do you mean? ...

Possible under this law. the words adequate and affordable in the law, that means nothing. what matters is obamacare made a strict statement that we can longer discriminate against the sick, we can no longer make mentally ill people pay more for the health care insurance, make women pay more because they need maternity coverage. it said basically we to longer discriminate in insurance markets. if there was a solution that gave state flexibility -- the affordable care act has a provision which sa...

Reduced their uninsurance rates towards red states that did not. whenever you think of state flexibility, it provides massively less federal resources and that will translate into people with fewer insurances. it reminds me of the old saying, the rich and poor are equally free to sleep under the bridge. they are like -- >> hold on, matt. we have to leave it there. you can come back tomorrow if you would like and we will continue to debate this. in this hour we will have a senator from the state ...

Look, both have points that are accurate here, but jimmy kimmel is probably more on the side of right here. again, nuance is important and there are specific designs in this bill. as i noted, state flexibility is something that republicans, conservatives have been pushing very hard. its the kind of essential idea behind changing the subsidies structure spiral, sending block grants to the states and letting states design their own systems. but in that flexibility becomes a reduction of the regula...

Living in a free society is people get to make their own decisions. but the president and i truly believe that if you lower the cost of health insurance, if you give americans more choices in health insurance, that more americans will choose more employers will choose to have and offer health insurance to their employees and have health insurance for their families. the reality is today, president obama promised that health insurance would go down by $2500 a year. theyve gone up by more than tha...

People get to make their own decisions. but the president and i truly believe that if you lower the cost of health insurance, if you give americans more choices ins. health insurance, that more americans will choose more employers will choose to have and offer health insurance to their employees and have health insurance for their families. h the reality is today, president obama promised that health insurance would go down by $2500 a year.t theyve gone up by more than that amount, on average ar...

Its -- the very essence of living in a free society is people get to make their own decisions. but the president and i truly believe that if you lower the cost of health insurance, if you give americans more choices in health insurance, that more americans will choose more employers will choose to have and offer health insurance to their employees and have health insurance for their families. the reality is today, president obama promised that health insurance would go down by $2500 a year. they...

Getting at the truth. i assume we know just a small percentage of the whole story and it will ultimately take the good work of you and other investigators to get to it. its not going to be the trump white house that is all of a sudden going to cop to the full story. >> let me get your opinion on the health care legislation stalled in the senate right now. donald trump spoke and list anyhow he thinks it affects the changes in medicaid. >> when it comes to medicaid, not only does the senates healt...

I want to go now to fred abby. he was a reagan official who worked on making katys waiver a fixture in our health care system. can you explain through this history how it allowed for more home health care through this government program? >> well, ari, president reagan challenged the department of health & human services where i was a part of, to come up with a solution and the tradeoffs that needed to be made in the policy are very similar to what they are today. the reagan tenets were find the ...