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>> kavita, i think john's talking about things i talk about all the time, create a bigger market, the biggest risk pool you could get. how about everybody in the same market. every other oecd country has done this and rates are lower. >> this is just insurance 101. you create a larger risk pool and spread that risk across a much larger population, not just an individual market. remember, part of what's been delayed in obamacare has also been the employer mandate. so the idea is no get we were thinking of doing that with a public option. if you'll remember, the house actually had a public optio...

This up. >> and ali, let me let you hear sean spicer who was out there today guaranteeing there was no plan "b" and there was going to be a vote, only to be made a fool of yet again by the vote being pulled and the rug being pulled out from under him. this was sean spicer explaining the logic of getting rid of maternity care as a benefit under obamacare. >> older men, older women who had gone past maternity age were buying benefits that weren't necessary for them. i think if you're an older man you can generally say you're not going to need maternity care. >> that a strong argument in your vie...

I'll grant you that. the reason is because we have a system that says the government's going to control, we're going to mandate. we don't have a real market like we have in everything else in our country. >> all those other countries actually have full government-involvement in their health care systems. >> they have full government. we don't have gull government involvement. >> other side of the coin but we agree on the point. i get your point. we're agreed on that. >> we have government that says you can't own a hospital if you're a doctor but a hospital can own a doctor. that's assinine. >>...

They're really trying to talk this up. >> and ali, let me let you hear sean spicer who was out there today guaranteeing there was no plan "b" and there was going to be a vote, only to be made a fool of yet again by the vote being pulled and the rug being pulled out from under him. this was sean spicer explaining the logic of getting rid of maternity care as a benefit under obamacare. >> older men, older women who had gone past maternity age were buying benefits that wer't neceary for them. i think if you're older man you can generally say you're not going to need maternity care. >> that a stro...

Million people. and it defies logic because common sense will tell you if the risk pool are going to be full of older sicker people premiums are going to go through the roof. so i don't know what they're talking about. i don't know what they're basing their facts and figures on. this is a policy. this is a legislative bill in search of a political solution. they used this for seven years to bash democrats, bash obama. obamacare is the worst thing that ever happened in the world, and now they're stuck with it and they've got to fix it. >> it's not the worse thing that happened in the world, and...