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Paying too much attention to coverage like obama did in 2008 but not paying attention to price and bringing down cost. the federal regulations and mandates are the primary cost driver. so trump is getting it right on bringing down the regs. we have to put that in law. if they put that in law, put bucket two in this bill, you'll get more people to yes. that's a total winner. >> stuart: for years and years we've been trying to bring down the ever-escalating cost of healthcare itself. >> right. >> stuart: not insurance, healthcare itself. >> that's right. >> stuart: nobody has been able to do it....

With state risk pools, et cetera, but don't ruin the entire healthcare system for 300 million people. the free market system is what's made us rich. common and india are coming out with a free market system and getting rich. >> the current legislation, if passed as it is right now, would ruin it for 300 million americans? >> the law enacted -- obama is in a death spiral right now, forever you follow that logic where we focus solely on coverage for 18 million but never lowered the cost curve, never brought the cost down and allow people to shop. obama said you can keep your doctor and healthcar...

His and other large companies reject one official's assertion that it will mean business as usual for them. he met with administration official earlier this we're and followed up with a letter that said make no mistake. the cost imposed on delta and our employees are very real and they are escalating. the cost of health care law and formal medical inflation would "mean that the cost of providing health care to our employees will increase by nearly $100 million next year. a small part of that cost is for medical inflation which the president argues the new law will curtail. one benefit the admi...

People who are already sick and then. now, that system which has to do with the preexisting conditionso is going to drivein up the cost for everybody. for everybody. that would be true whether it's a government system or whether n it's private insurance companies administering. that's the cost driver. >> we have to leave it there. see you next week on the air. coming up, remember, our discussionco continues every sunday on "panel plus." find it on our website and n sometimes better than on tv and follow us at twitter. u coming up next, some sights and sounds from the past week as america celeb...

To the nondoctor executives at the hospital in millions of dollars in salaries and bonuses. >> another -- you said another cost driver is nonprofit hospitals, they're making big profits, and the article points this out. quote, in hundreds of small and midsized cities across the country, the american health care market has transformed tax exempt nonprofit hospitals into the town's most profitable businesses and largest employers, often presided over by the region's most richly compensated executives. for example, m.d. anderson cancer center at the university of texas, a nonprofit, had a 26% ope...