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Obamacare, they're not going to be able, i think, to pull it out by its roots without coming up with an alternative, what this magic alternative is, i'm not sure. he changed the debate. no one is really arguing seriously about going back to a pro obamacare. that's a sea change in policy and how the parties are positioned. i think -- >> do you think that repeal of obamacare actually is not going to happen? >> i think it's going to be really interesting. they may try to repeal it without a replacement, but i would commend their attention to senator collins and senator flake, and many others in t...

Obama is looking for ways to insure his most significant accomplishments survive once he leaves the white house. that clgcincludes a meeting nex week with congressional democrats to shield obamacare from republican efforts to dismantle it. they have enacted new measures during their final days in power yet recent executive actions around the white house involve key issues the president and president-elect trump disagree requiing the requirement of immigranmen from predominantly muslim countries to register with the federal government. trump, who has expressed support for the program may now ha...

Decade. extending docker protection to dreamers. the climate deal and iran nuclear agreement. a justice department that has worked aggressively to defend and protect civil rights and tens of millions newly insured under obamacare. these are just a few i can name. now, all of it, the entire policy agenda that has defined the obama era is vulnerable to a successor who pledged to roll it all back. what happens to the obama legacy now. back with me, the group here, and i put out my top moments in the obama legacy. jerome, one of them was when president obama said in the rose garden when he was tal...

The ahca high risk pools, which is what they would throw people into rather than have subsidies would cover 110,000 people. 5% of the pple currently insured using aca in the individual market you're talking about, only 5% of them would have insurance because they have pre-existing conditions. >> that's a particularly misleading piece. i saw it the other day. i haven't had a chance to write about how grossly misleading. >> how is that misleading. >> because under prior law, obamacare, aca, and under what the house bill just passed, those people who have insurance would not be affected. this doe...

That has been affordable care act or obamacare, that's the constituency that elected president trump and these republicans to repeal and replace the law. and that's the constituency they are responding to. they are looking to find ways to bring the cost of coverage do you think for those people to enable them to continue to get health insurance. the problem we have with the affordable care act is before the election in october, as you saw those premium increases, this law was starting on the brink of unin suring the insured. that's what they are trying to fix. the characterizations i'm hearing...