after seven years of obamacare, more than 60 attempts to repeal it, thousands of campaign run against it across the country, that is the cutting edge of the republican alternative right now -- four bullet points. so what are the millions of people who've gained coverage thanks to the affordable care act supposed to do while they watch this unfold? joining me now, former director of communications of outreach for hillary clinton jess macintosh and the author of "overcoming obamacare, three approaches to reversing the government takeover of health care." phil, i want to start with you. obviously there are plans out there. lamar alexander talked about a plan, tom price who has been nominated for hhs but it's somewhat striking to me that all this time they didn't -- they knew this was coming. the fact there's not a plan saying, no, this is what we're going to do, not only that it was absent from the campaign. if you go back to '08, you can say obamacare you don't like it, you don't like the principles, but it was intensely litigated. you had a good sense of what the