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Trying to force in one-sixth of our economy remake in a week. from the politics to the policy of it. you talked about trying to bring premiums down. trying to bring insurers back in the market and make health care more affordable. what about the policy of it? does it answer the chief challenges left over from obamacare? >> well, it depends on who you talk to. the critics of the senate bill on the right argue that it doesn't in this regard. that without repealing more robustly a lot of the coverage protections and regulations about how health care functions that exist in the affordable care act...

Obamacare is a disaster. it's dead. >> the way this bill cuts health care is heartless. >> give us a chance to fix this system. >> we can do better than this. >> senate republicans are trying to con americans into thinking that they are fixing problems. what they're doing is causing new ones. are there tapes? >> you're going to be very disappointed when you hear the answer. don't worry. >> he has known for weeks that there were no tapes, and yet he strung the american people along. >> does the president regret the tweets? >> i don't think so. >> a reality talk show host. this is not designed...

This. some people believe without a mandate you don't have healthy, young americans in the system that enables the health care system to pay for older people and sick people at rates that are not unfair and punitive. one of the reasons why the obamacare market never worked as envisioned is that the penalties for not having insurance under obamacare were never enough to get the young and healthy into the system in the numbers that were projected. and that has been part of a problem. >> so let me switch gears quickly. not only health care made the headlines but the fact that president trump -- >...

The bill in its current fashion. among them senators rand paul and ted cruz. >> you have to be honest with people, and it has to be paid for. if we're not going to pay for it and keep a lot of stuff that was in obamacare, i think we can do better. my hope is not to defeat the bill but to make the bill better. >> it's not enough just to pass a bill with obamacare in the title. we've got to have legislation that fixes the underlying problem. >> the key to getting an agreement, to getting a bill can pass is we need common sense reforms in the bill that lower the cost of premiums. >> reporter: thi...

Behind the senate's health care plan. can the party build support after the bill was met with early pushback? welcome back to "early start," i'm alison kosik in for christine romans. >> i'm dave briggs. a sense of deja vu for republican lawmakers this morning, only this time it's not the house trying to hammer out a deal to repeal and replace obamacare. it's the senate -- working to balance the demands. moderates and conservatives as gop leaders attempt to get a health care bill passed in a matter of days. the version unveiled by majority leader mitch mcconnell. now meeting pushback from t...