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There were problems in the insurance market before Obamacare, but the scale of those issues is dwarfed by the authority created by Obamacare.

Obamacare had to cover. that was the biggest rule under obamacare, you can't sell substandard insurance to people. >> if people are going to buy insurance, they need to be covered. >> right, for things they don't know they'll need to be covered for. this is a return to the insurance situation before obamacare became law. lots of people will carry on about the increase in premiums during obamacare, and they're not wrong about that. i want people to think about before obamacare, not during obamacare, before obamacare. >> all of the uninsured people who had no access to health care. but here's wh...

Right and don't do drugs. my opinion is, if you live a healthy lifestyle, why should you have to subsidize people that do overeat and don't exercise z. we want to encourage healthy lifestyles. a way to do that is through a well functioning system. if you smoke, you are going to pay higher premiums. >> before obamacare, nowhere in the country could smokers be charged more for health insurance. obamacare made that legal. obamacare was the first time insurers were allowed to charge smokers more. don't make it about smokers. >> what about people who overeat, who are obese? what about people who us...

And it's not working and it has to be fixed. >> bakari. >> if we don't, we no that there with one-third of the counties right now in this country that only have one insurance provider. we know that there are people who were facing not having access to any health insurance. >> let bakari make his point. >> this doesn't help that. you will have people with pre-existing conditions whose care will sky rocket. but if you want democrats to help to get to the point that you were making and john kasich was making, one thing democrats wanted to do is take it further because there are 18, 19 states not ...

Of anxiety that they don't have the insurance before obamacare. >> and a couple of things too, because bob is the king of polls. obama is in trouble because his mattress of support is the millennials, you know the new poll and a.p. numbers. and millennials over obamacare, nearly four in five say obamacare will worsen insurance. this is a group he strongly relied on for his popularity and his presidency and for his political will to get things done and it has compromised, severely battle tested at this point. >> and the thing that would worry me if i were sitting in the white house, it is the l...