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I read the bill and it's not for families that voted for trump and the poor people. this is basically a huge transfer of resources from the poor and the sicker to the wealthier and the healthier. this makes no sense. >> that's been the liberal talking point on this. the truth is there are provision this is this proposed law that would allow people to buy insurance across state lines. i said this many times. i live in virginia and i have an ohio auto insurance policy. why can't you buy insurance in another state? it increases competition. a big problem with obamacare, in three counties, they pr...

Talking point on this, but the truth is, there are provisions in this proposed law that will would allow people to buy insurance across state lines. said this many times on the show aerpd anderson. i live in virginia. i have an ohio auto insurance policy. why can't you buy an insurance policy in another state. increases competition. one of the big approximate with obamacare right now is that one in three counties in america, there's only one insurance company left providing insurance. now, bob, that's not competition. that's a monopoly. >> i think steve, that actually argues for a single payer...

Preserving the mandate and prederveing the subsidies. >> exactly. so it is all built into a kind of a system that any given part, if you remove it or repeal it, you've got to come up with something else and the republicans don't want to do that because they don't know how to do that. in fact, one of the great ironies here, lawrence, is that only real system you can come up with that provided 20, 25 million people, the heal mg care they now have that they would otherwise lose when republicans repeal obamacare, affordable care act, only system is a single payer plan. of course republicans never ...

Of course republicans never would go along with a single payer plan. but that is the, as a practical matter, that's the only alternative for making sure that all these people have health insurance, health care. as bernie sanders said, without health insurance we are going to see more people dying. it is as straight and simple and tragic as that. data supports that. >> there are many impassioned speeches on the senate floor last night. i wish we had time for more of them. but i'm afraid we will hear many more of them as this year goes on. robert reich, thank you for joining us. >> thank you, la...

Mandating them to buy something they can't afford. that's why subsidies come in. as you point out, mandate has to be there once you say you want to allow people with preexisting conditions to be able to get health insurance. again, preexisting conditions is something donald trump has said repeatedly he wants it preserve but he doesn't seem to understand that that means preserving the mandate and prederveing the subsidies. >> exactly. so it is all built into a kind of a system that any given part, if you remove it or repeal it, you've got to come up with something else and the republicans don't...