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And wealthy americans. >> one of the things sean spicer kept saying today, republicans keep saying, is people who have coverage now under the affordable care act don't really have anything. doug, the way sean spicer kept saying it today, they may have a card but they can't go -- the doctors won't accept them, the doctors won't accept medicaid patients. what is the truth about the interaction with the health care system that beneficiaries of the affordable care act experience when they try to get services? >> people who have health insurance are more likely to be able to see the doctor when the...

They oppose. more than 100,000 people selected health care plans, signed up for the affordable health care act just wednesday, the day after the election. i want you to listen to speaker paul ryan, who didn't want to say donald trump's name to being absolutely giddy because he has a whole list of things he wants to do, let's talk about paul ryan talk about health care. >> what people don't realize is that because of obama care medicare is going broke. because of obama care, medicaid is in fiscal straits. you have to deal with those issues if you're going to repeal and replace obama care. >> le...

Plan. >> she has a plan come ought this afternoon. and among the plans, she says look, the united states government through medicare is one of the biggest consumers of the precipitation drugs. why can't the u.s. government have more power in negotiating down drug prices? because as you know sanjay, especially talking with seniors. their biggest concerns are rising costs. out of pocket costs for precipitation medication. >> yeah. this is really interesting. and obviously there's a story here around the whole affordable care act. but as part of giving the affordable care act passed one thing agr...

Polls much better for democrats? >> i think right now we are seeing the economic times without a doubt, the talks of fiscal cliffs, problems that our global economy is in. everyone is very on edge. and the fact is, that everyone knows medicare cannot continue the way it's going. we cannot continue that spending. we simply cannot afford it. i think a very honest straight forward conversation about it is something that the republicans can potentially win on because people need to hear real answers right now. they've had enough. they are sick of elected officials doing the nibbling at the edges. ...

They have been on the offense and they have a lot of material to work with and that we haven't seen about the ryan plan yet. forget about the cuts in medicare. if just look at the voucher plan, medicare cannot survive as a voucher plan because the economics don't work when you take the healthy people out of this system. if you look at what ryan has done in terms of his proposal to balance the budget, 30 years from now, almost entirely on the backs of poor people fushgs l,ue last ten years, there's so much material here for the democrats to work on. every vice presidential pick should observe t...