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They range from entire lily replacing private insurance companies to giving all americans the option to buy into medicare to lowering the age that medicare kicks in naturally. let's watch. >> how do we get universal coverage? medicare for all. lots of paths for how to do that. >> listen, the idea is that everyone gets access to medical care. and you don't have to go through the process of going through an insurance company. let's eliminate all of that. let's move on. >> even countries that have vast access to publicly offered health care still have private health care. >> people will say medic...

Giving america the greatest economy. it would mean single payor system for healthcare and would mean 13 million people become legal citizens. we have trouble paying our bills today and we would have trouble paying social security, medicade, if all these people become citizens. >> dana: let me ask you this last question. dan crenshaw from houston district. >> he used to work for me. >> dana: he's running for congress. he said the number one issue here is the debt. republicans have failed to take that on. mitch mcconnell saying i wish we could do something about the entitlement programs. what wo...

Your peers? >> i think a big part has to do with this issue of security. people want to feel like you can get into an accident or have a sudden illness. for a lot of students it doesn't feel like that's theirs. sometimes their parents health care isn't very adequate. sometimes parents don't have insurance at all. there's other issues like reproductive and mental health where a lot of students care about these issues and a lot of insurance companies don't want to cover them. >> which party do you think is hitting the target on health care? are you for the more moderate version or andrew gillum ...

Could anybody support a process where you're dealing with one-sixth of the american economy, you have one hearing today. we still don't have a full cbo report. you change the bill three times in the last day. no sane person thinks that this is a process to deal with one of the major issues facing the country. that is what mccain was talking about, and he's absolutely right [applause] >> senator cassidy? >> let's work backwards. it's not one-sixth of the economy that graham/cassidy is attempting to change. it is the individual market, which is 4% and medicaid. we don't touch employers sponsored...

Look, the reason why this is so important now and why we can't delay it and wait until -- they could wait until some point further down the road, obamacare is imploding. it is absolutely failing. we have to spend billions and billions in federal money every year to prop it up because people aren't signing up. and the system is absolutely -- it's tanking. and so we have to go and fix this system. i think this graham/cassidy bill is a very good idea. it gets it out of the hands of the federal government, gets it back to the states -- >> after september 30th they will have to get 60 votes and the...