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Jonathan, thank you so much for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> this is a long ruling. as i said earlier we just got it. have you had a chance to digest it? and can you explain to us what this means? >> like everyone else, i saw this when it came out an hour and a half ago. so this is my first reaction. you know, the basic journalist is that the judge said look, when they wrote the affordable care act, they had this mandate penalty and the rest of the pieces of it needed the mandate to work. so if you take the mandate out, congress clearly intended for these pieces to work together. no...

Now we've taken one piece out, the whole thing has to go. well, you know, congress revisited the issue in 2017. we were all there. we saw it when they proposed taking the mandate out, the debate came up. gee, that's going to affect the rest of the health care law. and the republican congress said yeah, we know that. we're going to debate. we're going to take out this mandate penalty anyway. they made that decision. we know what congress thought in 2017. they changed their mind. congress is allowed to do that. for the judge now to go and say well, i'm going to just ignore all that i'm going to ...

Health care compared to other wealthy countries around the world is that we do not have an adequately large and diverse risk pool for people who wish to buy insurance outside of their workplace. that's what the individual mandate was supposed to achieve, getting more and more people to buy insurance so that you've got young and healthy people along with the sick. taking the mandate out, do we not end up once again with a shrunken risk pool of older and sicker people whose health care costs more? >> well, that's certainly possible but, you know, a lot of experts are sort of coming around to the...

Julie, the failing of american health care compared to other wealthy countries around the world is that we do not have an adequately large and diverse risk pool for people who wish to buy insurance outside of their workplace. that's what the individual mandate was supposed to achieve, getting more and more people to buy insurance so that you've got young and healthy people along with the sick. taking the mandate out, do we not end up once again with a shrunken risk pool of older and sicker people whose health care costs more? >> well, that's certainly possible but, you know, a lot of experts a...

Health care compared to other wealthy countries around the world is that we do not have an adequately large and diverse risk pool for people who wish to buy insurance outside of their workplace. that's what the individual mandate was supposed to achieve, getting more and more people to buy insurance so that you've got young and healthy people along with the sick. taking the mandate out, do we not end up once again with a shrunken risk pool of older and sicker people whose health care costs more? >> well, that's certainly possible but, you know, a lot of experts are sort of coming around to the...