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All americans. >> joining us, douglas elmendorf, american economist, and professor of public policy at harvard kennedy school, he was the director of the congressional budget office 2009 to 2015. also former acting administrator of the centers for medicare and medicaid services from 2015 to 2017. doug a doug, you can't envy the cbo having to struggle with this one. i want to get your reaction to what cbo projected today about this plan. >> well, the congressional budget office estimated that the number of americans without health insurance would essentially double under this proposal, reversin...

And wealthy americans. >> one of the things sean spicer kept saying today, republicans keep saying, is people who have coverage now under the affordable care act don't really have anything. doug, the way sean spicer kept saying it today, they may have a card but they can't go -- the doctors won't accept them, the doctors won't accept medicaid patients. what is the truth about the interaction with the health care system that beneficiaries of the affordable care act experience when they try to get services? >> people who have health insurance are more likely to be able to see the doctor when the...