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Tax cuts and long-term reductions in medicaid as a vehicle for this conversation. >> so what do you think -- be specific. where can the democrats and the republicans agree? because you know there is a lot of problems with obamacare. you just mentioned it. we learned in the last week or two that aetna, one of the major insurers, is leaving your state of delaware next year. they don't want to be part of this obamacare exchange anymore. >> that's right, and part of the reason they were leaving fwas te reliable lack of reinsurance. there is a bill that senator tim kaine has introduced that would p...

And we also understand that you don't want premiums to go up for these older people who are not yet on medicare and what might make sense in a perfect world, and excuse me for being so polllyanna-ish as to recommend this, but what might make sense is actually if republicans believe that they can't get to yes on their own. that it may make sense to sit down with some moderate democrats and say, look, how can we work this out for the american people so they don't suffer premium increases or getting dropped altogether off of their insurance. >> i want to get perry bacon back in here. perry, what ...

Program that cuts back on medicaid in order to have tax cut for wealthy people, but we do need to deal with the cost of the individual market and the premiums. one way to do that is to make sure that the cost sharing is a predictable payment to the insurance companies to cover the cost deductibles and co-pays. another thing we can do is improve subsidies for lower income families. democrats and reins cpublicans o that together. democrats and republicans can bring down the cost of prescriptio prescriptions. we could follow a canadian mod e. we could organize the patient as value reimbursement r...

>> yeah, great question. certainly, one of the reasons why the insurers may be leaving the market is this reinsurance program to limit insurance companies losses in particular, erie, medical costs are particularly high. those are expiring in 2016. so if your insurer in the area where have you predominantly very sick people, you don't know what your loss are and you are very likely very much concern those people that provide health insurance, whether they can afford to go belly up. the insurance market, it was a temporary program, that we make that permanent. again, there has to be cost sharing...

You know all of these expressions that they've been using and that this basically something has to be done and this is -- this will actually help more people. >> but anderson, if you talk to -- and these are not my best friends, but if you talk to the insurance industry, what they will tell you is that trump and the republican leadership are sabotaging the affordable care act by dealing -- by not putting funding into cost sharing or destabilizing that situation and also not enforcing the individual mandate. so money is not coming in. the insurance companies are totally unsure about the future ...