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Health care compared to other wealthy countries around the world is that we do not have an adequately large and diverse risk pool for people who wish to buy insurance outside of their workplace. that's what the individual mandate was supposed to achieve, getting more and more people to buy insurance so that you've got young and healthy people along with the sick. taking the mandate out, do we not end up once again with a shrunken risk pool of older and sicker people whose health care costs more? >> well, that's certainly possible but, you know, a lot of experts are sort of coming around to the...

Julie, the failing of american health care compared to other wealthy countries around the world is that we do not have an adequately large and diverse risk pool for people who wish to buy insurance outside of their workplace. that's what the individual mandate was supposed to achieve, getting more and more people to buy insurance so that you've got young and healthy people along with the sick. taking the mandate out, do we not end up once again with a shrunken risk pool of older and sicker people whose health care costs more? >> well, that's certainly possible but, you know, a lot of experts a...

Health care compared to other wealthy countries around the world is that we do not have an adequately large and diverse risk pool for people who wish to buy insurance outside of their workplace. that's what the individual mandate was supposed to achieve, getting more and more people to buy insurance so that you've got young and healthy people along with the sick. taking the mandate out, do we not end up once again with a shrunken risk pool of older and sicker people whose health care costs more? >> well, that's certainly possible but, you know, a lot of experts are sort of coming around to the...

That's what the individual mandate was supposed to achieve, getting more and more people to buy insurance so that you've got young and healthy people along with the sick. taking the mandate out, do we not end up once again with a shrunken risk pool of older and sicker people whose health care costs more? >> well, that's certainly possible but, you know, a lot of experts are sort of coming around to the conclusion that there's at least a possibility that the subsidies you talked about still there that help people afford coverage that those might be just as important if not more important than t...