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That was our chance, still had president obama there, but now the fact is, let's look at president trump here for a moment. what he said on the campaign trail, just an outright repeal and leave it alone, that would really cut against kind of the populist brand and with his voters who need to have a repeal and replace. i think that's one of the things with the president people have to keep in mind. he very much views himself as a problem solve ar, someone who's solutions oriented. so now they've got to get some wins. >> leadership wanted and trump wanted to do this simultaneously. other people ...

In a death spiral, that it's going to explode? >> well, i think the evidence suggests that that is not the case. but on the other hand, what is fair to acknowledge is deductibles in many cases are too high. premiums are too high. and while obamacare has slowed down the rate of health care increase, it is going up much too fast. >> let's get more perspective from our own health care expert, dr. sanjay gupta. we just heard both sides give their take on obamacare. from a doctor's perspective, what are you sighieeing regardi obamacare? >> every hospital in america takes care of a certain number of...

He thinks it's the best plan given today's setback to wait for obamacare to explode. here's the praise th here's the phrase they use a lot. >> we all know obamacare is in a death spiral. >> death spiral. >> death spiral. >> quote, obamacare is in a death spiral. >> death spiral. it's a weird term, kind of gruesome. >> death spiral. >> let obamacare explode. it is exploding right now. >> the idea that obamacare is teetering on the brink of collapse is debunctioned debunkf times. we talked about it with bernie sanders. what is your opinion on this republican notion that obamacare is going to exp...

Surprise you. that may have worked a little better than this. now i think they're stuck with figuring out incremental things they can do to fix the problems with obama care. >> the worry was that you would have the death spiral. that insurance companies would say hey, let's get out of this. >> they would vote to repeal it, say it's not happening for a couple years. >> the sequester, the notion that people would work together if you force them to work together, i'm not convinced they would have will a bill, two years later. >> but there might have been a lot of pressure, and there may have been...

Insurance. >> stay with us, what happens, clearly, the government's, you know, president trump is not going to be encouraging more people to sign on for obamacare. so what happens until, what happens moving forward? >> if you take the president at his word today, we wait an a little bit here. i think one of the interesting challenges is, he's right, the democrat t democrats passed obamacare. so they quote-unquote own it. a lot of these problems, especially with the options, where there's only one insurer, a lot of those are in rural areas, trump voters, so when these members of congress, who, ...