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Us to justice. speaker nancy pelosi sounded like she was willing to negotiate to save obamacare. >> diminish the number of people covered, reduce the benefit package and increase the cost, do damage to medicare and medicaid. >> a top house republican said this was about a lawmakers keeping their word. >> this should not be about preserving somebody's legacy. it should be about fulfilling those promises to the american people that were broken, and we are here to fulfill that promise. how refreshing it is that you have people who ran for years saying we are going to repeal obamacare with a presi...

Differently and making them change how they deliver care. >> let's wrap the next two into one. and here's the question. if they are going to keep preexisting conditions, if they are going to keep kids covered through 26 which they say, what do people have to know about the way that is made achievable. >> if you're going to have no preexisting condition exclusions, i.e. insurance can't say you have cancer we're not covering you or premium going to be $50,000, you have to get everyone in the system. and you either have to have a mandate or give everyone coverage or something. you cannot take awa...

Speaker nancy pelosi sounded like she was willing to negotiate to save obamacare. >> diminish the number of people covered, reduce the benefit package and increase the cost, do damage to medicare and medicaid. >> a top house republican said this was about a lawmakers keeping their word. >> this should not be about preserving somebody's legacy. it should be about fulfilling those promises to the american people that were broken, and we are here to fulfill that promise. how refreshing it is that you have people who ran for years saying we are going to repeal obamacare with a president who is rea...

Critically important parts. they fund a lot of the people who have insurance -- health insurance under obamacare. if you start repealing those mandates, where is the money going to come from? >> well, that's a big issue that we're going to be dealing with. ways and means, our committee on taxes is going to be dealing with that piece. those of us on energy and commerce are going to be dealing with the expansion of medicaid. but for the time being, all the folks that have insurance, those plans are set. they can't be changed this year. they effectively cannot be changed next year. you are correc...

Politics is local. in this case, all politics is personal. so when leader schumer talks about the 75% of the people who get their benefits in the workplace, and that is so, they are affected by the affordable care act in that the cost, increase in premiums is the lowest it has been in the 50-some years that they have been tracking that. so it has contained costs. it has increased the benefit package, as the leader said, in terms of no discrimination in terms of preexisting conditions, no lifetime limits, no annual limits, extending a parents' premium, being a woman is no longer a preexisting c...