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It's going to be very difficult. the leaked responses about what the new health care plan to replace obamacare is going to look like is indicating that many millions of people will be dropped off of the plan. so this is politically very difficult but more important it's mathematic, it's economics and it's actuarial. that health insurance to help the president understand if he's going to repeal obamacare and what that replacements needs to look like. >> joining me now is raja. if the numbers that i looked up are accurate, there are 3 million people in your state who depend just on medicaid for ...

Am i right to say it is about to get more boring than it has been? >> yes, we're about to go further into the weeds of how do you design a really good website, what do you have to do to make sure it's vibrant and people want to come and shop? what do you have to do to get cost control to work? those tend to be in the weeds and can even bore my children. i think you're right. >> were the republicans right to say that if -- and the conservatives more broadly -- were they right to say that if people didn't sign up, that if the numbers stayed as bad as they were when the websites didn't work and t...

Being uninsured. >> yes, we're about to go further into the weeds of how do you design a really good website, what do you have to do to make sure it's vibrant and people want to come and shop? what do you have to do to get cost control to work? those tend to be in the weeds and can even bore my children. i think you're right. >> were the republicans right to say that if -- and the conservatives more broadly -- were they right to say that if people didn't sign up, that if the numbers stayed as bad as they were when the websites didn't work and the first couple weeks when nobody was really signi...

>> yes, we're about to go further into the weeds of how do you design a really good website, what do you have to do to make sure it's vibrant and people want to come and shop? what do you have to do to get cost control to work? those tend to be in the weeds and can even bore my children. i think you're right. >> were the republicans right to say that if -- and the conservatives more broadly -- were they right to say that if people didn't sign up, that if the numbers stayed as bad as they were when the websites didn't work and the first couple weeks when nobody was really signing up. if those n...

About 7 million by the end of march. ultimately we need about 20 million people to sign up. this is really well below target. >> they have 2.2 million now? >> 2.2 million right now. 1-6 people in this country under 65 lack insurance coverage. >> 35 million, 40 million people? >> at least officially. they are looking at the exchanges and finding that obamacare plans aren't offering a good value or buying health plans off the exchanges where the regulations are somewhat looser and they can be tailored to individual needs. >> this is 2.2 million who have signed up, not necessarily gotten insuranc...