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Color where a lot of women struggle just to make things work, so we're going to see if the states want to join us in that effort. >> final question to you. the affordable care act as survived three challenges now in the supreme court. do you think a fourth challenge is on the horizon? what are we planning for? >> if we were playing baseball, we would say three strikes you're out. if you count the several times that members in congress tried to dismantle the law. they've been out a long time, but look, we're going to be ready. there will be either a really good state attorney general or a u.s. ...

>> take away, she says. that's the reaction from a freshman republican. but as gop lawmakers who have been around can tell you, they've tried that also, and it's far easier said than done. no on-camera reaction yet from president biden after his late-night return to washington, but it might sound something like this. >> the president of the united states of america, barack obama. [ applause ] >> that memorable hot mic moment from when obamacare was signed into law. with that joining us now, nbc capitol hill correspondent garrett haake, benjamin solomon, peter baker, and former law clerk to jus...

Blunt, a retired senator, who says this is now baked in to the american medical system. >> and peter baker, we have not yet heard from president biden. we expect to hear him weigh in on this when he signs the juneteenth bill around 3:30 eastern. they brought in mira tanden, made her an advisor to the president. her portfolio was based on all kinds of contingencies based on how the court would rule on this. right now this is a battle they don't have to fight. >> exactly, you can take that off the list. the flip side is it empowers or emboldens the list to say, okay, since we're no longer on def...

Campaign, and now i know he'd like to make sure we do everything possible. we do have some executive tools to try to reduce the cost in prescription drugs, but we would like to see congress help us out there. we want to make sure we can continue to expand medicaid, because right now more than two-thirds of all the states have expanded their medicaid health coverage. because of that, fewer people are living in poverty and getting the help they need. we talked about lowering the age to qualify for medicare from 65 to maybe 60 or less. that's another way to get more americans insured. we can do a...

Which haven't expanded medicaid, which leaves people in limbo supported by the 2012 supreme court decision. and there will be things like drug prices. on some issues, there might be overlap by republicans and democrats. in others there will be strong political differences. obviously there is no republican support for something like medicare for all. but this chapter on looking backwards from looking at the affordable care act and go back to something like existed today, that seems to be fading away right now. >> garrett, i know you have a question for the panel? >> benjy, i'm curious if you th...