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Point, let's make sure we fund the subsidies. let's make sure we mandate that folks stay in the market place so the risk pool is a risk pool that's workable. >> dan hilferty, thank you, i appreciate it. >> thank you, michael. >> i know there's a lot of feedback on twitter and my facebook page. let's see what we got. smerconish, let's ask ourselves if a tax hike to pay for single payer health care would be more than our current insurance premiums. i sure hope that people were paying attention to what health care ceo, elected by his peers, to handle the situation with white house and congress ju...

>> go ahead, dan. >> i apologize. let's take a step back and look at the system. when you think of our membership, we have approximately 85% of our members come through the traditional employer-based system and through medicare and medicaid. we're talking about 6% of the population comes through the state exchanges or the federal exchange or comes through -- or are still uninsured. let's talk about the first three, commercial market place, medicaid and medicare. they're functioning extremely well. 85% of our business. can they be improved? absolutely. we can continue to drive down cost, we can...

Employer-based system and through medicare and medicaid. the commission comes through the state exchange or early in exchange or comes through are still uninsured. let's talk about the first three, commercial market place, medicaid and medicare. they're functioning extremely well. 85% of our business. can they be improved? absolutely. we can continue to drive down cost, we can continue to drive up quality. but they're working. the job now is to fix the 6% and hopefully growing access of folks to care over the past three years. >> can you stay in the exchanges? can held insureds i'll broaden it...

These are two fine servants in bob casey and pat toomer. from the republican respect as well, pat toomey wants it to be sustainable. we have to get a meeting of the minds. i believe the same thing for leader mcconnell, leader schumer. get the people in the house committee, senator amill alexander beginning to have conversations about how the marketplace can go forward. how we can insure more people and in the interim to your point, let's make sure we fund the subsidies. let's make sure we mandate that folks stay in the market place so the risk pool is a risk pool that's workable. >> dan hilfer...

Of division. >> we ought to change it from the word "swamp" to the word "cesspool" or to perhaps the word "sewer." but it's not good. not good. >> i've got to tell you i find it hard to believe that 10-year-old boys were clearing at the mention of the electoral college or when told that hillary didn't work hard enough in michigan. my hunches it was their parent, probably their fathers at this gathering who led the cheers. well shame on them for encouraging the president in front of a nonpartisan, not for profit which has an oath that commits its members to, quote, do my duty for my country. th...