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The country maybe could get inexpensive insurance there. the less healthy people, there wouldn't be healthy people left to pool with. they'd be hung out to dry. they either couldn't afford insurance or pay $20,000, $30,000 for a policy. so that whole approach -- the them underneath the romney proposals, that this should be like buying tires or autos. when you go and buy a car or tires, they're the same price. whether you're short, tall, skinny, obese, healthy, not healthy. that's not how health insurance works. unless you set up the markets and the regulations to do that. that's what the affor...

Wouldn't be healthy people left to pool with. they'd be hung out to dry. they either couldn't afford insurance or pay $20,000, $30,000 for a policy. so that whole approach -- the them underneath the romney proposals, that this should be like buying tires or autos. when you go and buy a car or tires, they're the same price. whether you're short, tall, skinny, obese, healthy, not healthy. that's not how health insurance works. unless you set up the markets and the regulations to do that. that's what the affordable care act and employer coverage tried to do and those are the two elements romney s...

People. and healthy people all across the country maybe could get inexpensive insurance there. the less healthy people, there wouldn't be healthy people left to pool with. they'd be hung out to dry. they either couldn't afford insurance or pay $20,000, $30,000 for a policy. so that whole approach -- the them underneath the romney proposals, that this should be like buying tires or autos. when you go and buy a car or tires, they're the same price. whether you're short, tall, skinny, obese, healthy, not healthy. that's not how health insurance works. unless you set up the markets and the regulat...

Everyone was covered before they got sick or hurt. the affordable care act, the bill he wants to repeal, is based firmly on those ideas. now, until we have more details on romney's new health care ideas, particularly tax ideas, it's impossible to say exactly what effect his plan would have on total coverage. but what it looks like, as of now, is health care coverage would go way up under obama due to the affordable care act and down under romney due to the cuts to medicaid. as for costs either to the government or to most americans, that depends primaily on details romney hasn't offered us yet...

Got sick or hurt. the affordable care act, the bill he wants to repeal, is based firmly on those ideas. now, until we have more details on romney's new health care ideas, particularly tax ideas, it's impossible to say exactly what effect his plan would have on total coverage. but what it looks like, as of now, is health care coverage would go way up under obama due to the affordable care act and down under romney due to the cuts to medicaid. as for costs either to the government or to most americans, that depends primarily on details romney hasn't offered us yet. joining us now, i'm excited ab...