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And for six years democrats have been fighting, saying no changes at all even as people were hurting and losing their coverage. this is about hon aring the promises we made to the people who elected us. >> senator sanders? >> the truth is the republicans are now in a panic, because the american people have caught on that the absolute repeal of obamacare without improvements in it, without a plan for making it better would be an absolute disaster. so, when ted talks about giving people choice, here's your choice. you got cancer, and you go to the doctor, and the insurance company says we're not...

Preexisting conditions, you're going to make lure that thsure a mandated requirement. >> what i've said is virtually all of the republican legislation that has been filed that the democrats have opposed maintains a level of coverage so that the companies can't cancel coverage. what do the democrats say to the 6 million people who had their insurance canceled, who got a notification in the mail that you don't get to see your doctors anymore, and not just the people who were canceled. there are people all over this country who can't afford health insurance because of obamacare because the deduct...

So there's the individual mandate, how do you even force it, ho do you apply to it, who is exempted from it. there are instructions in the law of obamacare how the insurance plans must be designed. they have to cover maternity coverage, mental health services. how do you define that. that's up to the department of health and human services. and the president can give instructions on that. but he can't exactly dismantle obamacare on his own, but he can certainly roll back shof the regulations that have driven premiums up so much. let's at all it 5% of the law can be rolled back through executiv...

Without maternity coverage or without mental health coverage or insurance that would reinstate caps on cancer treatments is better? >> well, i don't know that that's what he was referring to. >> he said it would be better. if we, in fact, took away -- if we went to high-risk tools instead of covering people with pre-existing conditions or if we stopped the other coverage we have now, i'm just wondering if you define that as better. >> you'd have to give me a specific -- >> well, let me -- >> what may be better for you may not be better for me or anyone else. that's the important thing i'm tryi...

Adults up to age 26. that is correct, right? >> the bill that i authored did not include coverage up to age 26. the insurance companies have said they were working that. that they were concluding that in their plans going forward and so we felt that was covered. >> and your bill takes away current benefits which include prescription drugs, mental health and substance use disorder benefits and maternity coverage among others. that is correct, right? >> again, it's difference in the legislative arena than in the administrative, but there are other factors we'd put in place that would make certai...