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Point mandates are being eliminated and they're necessary for any type of coverage that the country can have access to? >> well, yes. i mean, the employer manual -- i've always had a lot of problems particularly with the employer mandate. i think it's been harsh and unworkable for many employees, very confusing, and i think in many cases resulted in a loss of hours for many folks. so there are a lot of problems with the employer mandate in the health care -- obamacare, which i'm happy to be rid of the employer mandate. >> would you keep the individual mandate? >> i think we have to clean it up...

Legal. not illegal. this was legal to do. you remove the mandate. sounds good. how do you get the healthy people in the pool and make the system work? >> the bill that susan collins and i have introduced. we used a mechanism called auto enrollme enrollment. we do that with medicare. you turn 65 and you are on medicare. we do the same easy enrollment in the plan in the patient freedom act. that is getting currency from the senate colleagues to eliminate mandates, but keep people in the pool to provide them insurance and also lower the costs for those sicker. >> you know that the younger people ...

You have a credit for the annual premium. a portion does go to subsidize the overall pool. if the young person gets in a car wreck, they are covered. subject to deductible, of course. if we do easy enrollment with medicare with premiums sufficient, we can have a large and robust pool. >> you acknowledge the 23 million people on the lower income spectrum going to lose care, that's relevant. isn't that something you have to address? >> totally. that's why i say the house plan is yesterday's news. if we do the easy enrollment as we propose. a lot of the folks are back in. they anticipate 14 milli...

People are going to lose coverage by new proposal. there are ways to get universal conch. i will give you one that i think mark and i might agree on which is have you a government auto enrollment into a catastrophic plan. >> that's true. >> with not just catastrophic but with three visits to a primary care doctor and prevention covered. few that auto enrollment, everybody gets it. steve: talking about where the government is in charge. >> no, no. not in charge. forget the in charge. like medicare part a. steve: for everybody. >> everyone in the system. because we believe in catastrophic covera...

Companies do because they obviously can keep some provisions or not. it depends on sort of their cost/benefit analysis here. >> yeah. some said they will deal with parts of it, they will keep allowing kids up to age 26 to stay on their parents' bills. one thing they do not have the ability to do is construct the individual mandate out of scratch. i will say quickly, the interesting thing if congress can't come to an agreement is what do states do, because states could set out an individual mandate as massachusetts did, they could do auto enrollment, they could as vermont is trying to do, blow ...