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People have not enrolled as they expected and we still have an affordability issue with regard to employment linkage. >> the big question with republicans, i remember covering the first affordable care act. >> right. >> and a huge problem for democrats was the sort of status quo bias. folks are scared about something new and uncertain when it comes to health care. you guys are on the opposite side of that status quo bias. can you look constituents in the eye and across the bell curve of the different kinds of ways people might be affected by the system, look them in the eye and say you're goin...

So the question is what do we do to make sure that it does. we take a market approach, which might be different than your approach or some of the viewers. what we say is, one, it was during the wage and price of world war ii, employment and health care became linked. and that really need not be the case. one insurance going where they do. so what we do is take a couple bites at the apple and say, wait, if your insurance goes with you, might we not approach the issue of pre-existing conditions a bit differently and give you a two-year phase-in. after that, you have to have continuous coverage. ...

Distant seventh in the most recent iowa poll and recently announced he will be spending more time there. meanwhile, florida's former governor also has a new clarification about his recent remarks on the iraq war. nbc news white house correspondent kristen welker reports that story. >> reporter: do you not think there's an affordability issue -- >> reporter: jeb bush under fire after making these controversial comments about the iraq war on fox news monday. >> knowing what we know now, would you have authorized the invasion? >> i would have and so would have hillary clinton, just to remind ever...

It depends on my generation for participation. >> mine too. >> but we're not signing up, brian. >> let me ask you this. have the two of you signed up? >> absolutely not! >> have you signed up? >> i don't need to, because of my business. here's my point. young people sign up for things last minute. we all know this. parties, anything we do, it's always last minute. >> give me one compelling reason to sign up? >> i don't know, if you have a pre-existing condition, that's a very important concern. i don't know, annual -- i'm sorry, lifetime caps on coverage. that's relevant. >> do you know what t...

Young people and healthy people end up paying more for something they don't need as often. as older people and sicker people. that's not one of them. that's, core to any insurance, national insurance system or nonnational insurance system we can conceive of. >> carl, it becomes very clear in your piece that you prefer, you would prefer a single payer system. certainly, as i would. many others would. your problem in this market, at $30 t you c $30,000, you cannot afford $1,800 in premiums. and then that is just if you never get sick and never use the health care system at all. if you use the he...