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Able to get treated for anything at any stage of their life no matter the ka cost? >> single payer systems they rationalize health care toward the end of life. >> exactly. >> put another way, more than half the you and me on health care is going to be spent in the last year of our life, trying to prolong our life for a few weeks or months. >> and you get into incredibly expensive drugs that you'll need for an extended period of time. we should accept the consequences, which is as you point out, a lot of our health care dollars go to these kinds of purposes. >> it's a good answer for now, for t...

The president will want to fulfill that commitment of repeal and replace because it the smart thing to do. that was what will create quality health care for the american people. look, what is happening with how the governor has managed health care, we have 80 separate welfare programs that cost about a trillion dollars annually. it's a colossal failure. we look at the va system. we have 400 to 500 people in my office, veterans we assisted any given time. they do not manage well with the socialists won as one payer systems the government manages. now, we want to relegate this back to the states...

Coverage for everybody, thereby spreading the risk around. do you agree with that? >> well, that is a philosophical debate and that's largely debatable when it comes to american healthcare. to be screaming for universal coverage or single payer systems i have some objections to that. to have everybody be a part of a group plan, that is really how the insurance industry works in the american health system. you have to offset the sick people with the healthy. and that's how our medicare system works thereby essentially overcharging these private industries. todd: hopefully if we maybe get to a s...

Address the concerns in both rural states and urban states. so in that regard, i thought he made the right move. >> okay, and that helps you? >> there were tax reductions that were made. some of those tax reductions may very well be on the table. because if you keep some in place, you can supplement -- >> we just played the president public remarks to you all. what do you think he meant by that last line, it's going to be something we're not going to like and that's okay. what do you think he meant by that? >> well, i think the concern we've got is if we don't get something done and we lose el...

Jail than the average canadian or the european. i don't think that's something that americans realize that the prison system or the justice system is so different from the rest of the woeestern world. >> we have an attorney general who thinks the problem is there aren't enough people in prison. >> right. >> let me ask you about two things that donald trump has focused in on. during the campaign, this is something he would not like to remember, but he once pointed out that universal health care systems do seem to work sometimes pretty well, single payer systems and he pointed specifically to ca...