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Much as a bus ticket in a town where no buses run. if your local bridge in georgia or tennessee would be near collapse the first thing you would do, i would think, is send in a rescue crew to repair the bridge temporarily so no one else is hurt. then you would build a better bridge or more accurately, in the case of healthcare, many bridges to replace the old bridge. and finally, when the new bridges are finished, you would close the old bridge. that's how i suggest we proceed. rescue those trapped in a collapsing system. replace that system with functional markets -- market or markets as stat...

Those exchanges. their subsidies may be worth as much as a bus ticket in a town where no busses run. if your local bridge in georgia or tennessee were very near collapse, the first thing you would do, i think think, is send in a rescue crew to repair the bridge temporarily so no one else is hurt. then you would build a better bridge or more accurately, in the case of health care, many bridges to replace the old bridge. and finally, when the new bridges are finished, you would close the old bridge. that's how i suggest we proceed. rescue those trapped in a collapsing system. replace that system...

Where no buses run. if your local bridge in georgia or in tennessee were very near collapse, the first thing you'd do, i think, would be to send in a rescue crew to repair the bridge temperature rarely so no one else is hurt. then you would build a better bridge or more accurately, in the case of health care, many bridges to replace the old bridge. and finally when the new bridges are finished, you would close the old bridge. that's how i suggest we proceed. rescue those trapped in a collapsing system. replace that system with functional market -- market or markets, as states develop their own...

Across the line particularly in the united states senate. we've certainly got a common set of ideas that will take some time to get it done, so i think what the senate did today was the right and important first step. >> and before we go, though, when you say when it gets to the replacing, the republican senator lamar alexander, chairman of the health committee, said it would be a mistake to repeal obamacare before there is a replacement. senator rand paul seconded that. do you share that point of view? >> it's a fair point in the sense this is a collapsing system. it has 9 million people fewe...

Going bankrupt. they're measuring any medicare reform plan like ours against a mythical future, a fiscal fantasy, which is a collapsing system. it also forgets to include the fact that if we don't do something to fix medicare, the whole thing goes down, it goes bankrupt. according to the c.b.o. which they said later in the letter, number one, it's going bankrupt this nine years; number two, what we are trying to do is give seniors more choices and have more competition to bring down the prices. it fails to include that analysis. >> bret: i didn't hear $7800 as a number until just now. the past...