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The size of the pool so you can mitigate and manage the risk. younger and healthier people pay into the system to off set people like me with expensive diseases, and the republicans have been bent on destroying that system from day one. they started by not funding the risk quarters. marco rubio took $12 billion out of the risk sharing that the government was supposed to engage in and that took a lot of insurers out of the market. there was high premiums and the sabotage has continued right on through recently with the trump administration just taking another $900 million out of the tax subsidi...

They had seven and a half years to come up with a solution but didn't and dumped on obamacare. this is a moment where democrats can say here's the clear fix. >> stephanie, as i was just saying, the democrats are unified behind a clear fix that includes shoring up the cost sharing provisions and number two, dealing with the so-called risk quarters. this is all technical stuff but it is what is needed right now as we head into the fall to shore up the exchanges. beyond that, there are things we can do to dramatically improve the affordable care act. one is to provide a medicare for all public op...

>> what we know, it will get back to cbo in a minute. they predicted 4 million small businesses will, would enroll. 233,000 have. they said on the risk quarters, the subsidy for insurance companies, a that the federal government would net $8 billion. instead's federal government lost $8 billion. they said that -- said that 23 million would enroll. only 10 million have. that's all under existing obamacare law, why they getting out of the market. >> up to 90% of people -- >> i apologize maria and jack. wish we had more time's it's not over yet. jack and maria, we'll have you back and pick up whe...

Means senators just want us to put more money in to make doctors happy and make these insurers happy. is your answer get more money and put it in? >> well, if we want to keep the promises that president trump made on the campaign trail, and retain the preexisting condition protection, and retain the medicaid expansion, that is going to cost more money. brian: right. >> one of the things that happened last year and i know this is technical but something called risk quarters which will put in place to protect insurance companies from losing money in the marketplaces was taken away. and so if tha...

In massachusetts drawn up by the heritage group. it's a conservative plan that takes democratic values of giving people health cend republican ways of doing it by subsidizing insurance companies and keeping the private sector in. personally, i'd like to have a single option. medicare for all. that would take care of it. >> but you have senators who are saying they're going to rework the plan once it hits them. >> they have to rework the plan. it's just awful. >> what do you want to see? >> well, what i'd like to see them do is go back to affordable care act and make it to where it's more affor...