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>> the federal judge in florida using president obama's own words to strike down the health care law. back in 2008, when obama was running against hillary clinton, he attacked her proposal for an individual coverage mandate. >> she'd have the government force every individual to buy insurance and i don't have such a mandate because i don't think the problem is that people don't want health insurance. it's that they can't afford it. well, if things were that easy, i could mandate everybody buy a house and that, you know, and that would solve, you know, the problem of homelessness. it doesn't. >...

Everybody ought to have healthcare. and i think philosophically what did the republicans have to offer? the obamacare bill said universal healthcare. the bill that ryan was offering was, how could you, other than we made a promise we want to keep it, what was the essence of it? there wasn't. and secondly, there was the technical issue. which is that ryan crafted a bill to fit the technical requirements of what was called reconciliation in the senate, which is why he could not include in the bill the things that would have satisfied the conservatives, tort reform, stripping out the requirements...

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