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Fleeing. some states are up over 100% in costs. the deductibles are through the roof. you don't even get to use it. so, we're going to do something that's great and i'm proud to support the replacement plan released by the house of representatives and encouraged by members of both parties. i think really that we're going to have something that's going to be much more understood and much more popular than people can even imagine. it follows the guidelines i laid out in my congressional address, a plan that will lower costs, expand choices, increase competition, and ensure health care access for...

Question. what's happening right now is that the american people are having to sacrifice in order to purchase coverage, and as i mentioned many individuals can't afford the kind of coverage that they have right now. so they'veot that insurance card, but they don't have care. what our desire is to drive down the health care costs for everybody and the way that you do that is to increase choices for folks, increase competition, return the regulation of health care, where it ought to be, which is at the state level, not at the federal level. all of these things that take it in their aggregate wil...

To work on it. they are afraid to make any improvements because that's acknowledgment that it's going to continue. i would talk about that as a candidate, i would talk about how i'm trying to make changes and improvements, drive down cost, increase competition. i wouldn't simply be a cheerleader -- >> let me stop you here. give me an example. what is a fix, a simple bill, that could be fapassed that's realistic that would increase changes? >> i think one is a public auction that would drive down costs because you would -- >> with a democrat controlled house and senate, mind you, and couldn't g...

so it will continue for at least the next couple days. >> thank you so much. appreciate it. that does it for me here in the cnn newsroom. thanks for spending your day with us. my good friend don lemon continues cnn newsroom at 5:00 eastern. hello. thanks for joining us. a very important week here. i'm outside bellevue hospital which is the oldest and one of the largest public hospitals in new york city. you know what i'm here today to try and answer your questions about changes that are coming to your medical care and your insurance. this is something that affects all of us. it has...

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