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Given someone and entitlement, its near impossible to take it away. and while the rising premiums made obamacare a political weapon used rather effectively by republicans, taking away someones health care is a loser, 1,000%. not just politically, but messing with health care is messing with peoples lives. so this is sort of become the new third rail. we used to talk about social security as a third rail of american politics. i think obamacare is the new third rail in republican politics right no...

That was one of the big concerns that kept coming up over and over again. >> gloria, how do you think dr. price did? >> well, i think he did a very good job in not saying much of anything. and, therefore, sort of kept the place kind of calm. i mean, he -- it was as if senator ron wyden, for example, was very aggressive, claire mccaskill, very aggressive. they kind of talked past each other. at one point ron wyden asked for a guarantee that no one will be worse off. and price would say, people wh...

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Lot of people are not. we remember the commercials grandma in the wheelchair being pushed off a cliff. why are you willing to tackle that? >> we know and a last viewers know 71 percent of federal spending this year is on entitlements and debt service. if we do not deal with this we cannot invest in national defense or in education or in infrastructure. we will not be able to afford to do this. the programs are going to be insolve vent. that is not acceptable. nor is a massive tax increase on the...

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