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Program that cuts back on medicaid in order to have tax cut for wealthy people, but we do need to deal with the cost of the individual market and the premiums. One way to do that is to make sure that the cost sharing is a predictable payment to the Insurance Companies to cover the cost deductibles and copays. Another thing we can do is improve subsidies for lower income families. Democrats and reins cpublicans o that together. Democrats and republicans can bring down the cost of prescriptio prescriptions. We could follow a canadian mod e. We could organize the patient as Value Reimbursement ra...

[ overlapping speakers ] >> let katrina answer. >> these are the things he ran on. he ran on repeal and replace. he talks about the impact of obamacare and how it kills jobs and raises taxes. these are the things why he was elected, which is why we want to hold those accountable. we are talking about bringing him to the table, which i hear he is today. but he walked away, anna, that's the difference. that's why the ad ran against him to begin with. >> there's not one republican i know who is not in favor of repeal and replace, but the devil is in the details. >> it will me just ask a question....

Very well at times predicting things on budget, whether it's revenue or spending, i don't think it does a great job, and i think the administration has been clear and consistent that we don't always agree that it does a great job predicting coverage. >> well, clearly not a man of the cbo's work. but the criticism does seem selective. the cbo did overestimate the number of people who get their care through the obamacare exchanges, however, if she is suggesting that the cbo did a bad job overall on obamacare, other facts don't support her. the cbo estimated the loss impact on the total percentag...

I think those are good things and when they focus on the budget side, that's probably a good thing. >> cherry picking? you decide yourself. more now what led up to the gop decision to punt for the time being on replacing obamacare. phil mattingly joins us now. do you have any sense how far away they are from getting the votes they need? >> reporter: very far, to put it plainly. within an hour of senator mcconnell telling his conference that they would be waiting until after july fourth to vote on this bill, three new republican senators came out and opposed the discussion draft. that brings it...

You have to be a leader. in 1964, after ronald reagan went on television and gave an impassioned speech for the principles of conservatism, and california was lost to lyndon johnson by about a million votes. two years litter, reagan was elected to california on those same principles by a million votes. my point is, you have to go out and sell what your principles are in relation to a particular program. obamacare was sold as one thing. i was just looked -- admittedly, this is a white house video -- of people who suffered under obamacare. i have talked to these people -- some of them, not the p...