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>> does the mandate hit americans as a tax? >> it is not the best way to bring people into health care. the best way, of course, is a medicare for all, single-payer system, which guarantees health care to all people, and it's funded based on ability to pay. but what mr. langford is saying is, okay, these 13 million people, or whatever, will no longer have health insurance. anderson, you tell me what happens when that person today earning $40,000 a year gets hit by a bus or finds out she has leukemia. how are they going to pay for the health care they need? they're not. you know who's going to ...

Trump clone. i need to expand medicaid in virginia. we need to make sure we have good jobs for tomorrow. and terry mccull off has ushered in 3.7% unemployment. let's keep moving in the right direction. >> that's a good one. health care is a good one. the value that many democrats put forward is a system of universal health care. bernie sanders and team, and it seems to be a large team of democrats, have now embraced in medicare for all idea, which is not just universal coverage. it's actually like a single payer system. is that an embrace of the values? because some people say democrats are go...

>> until people figure out what they mean. and then they don't. hillary care was a form of single payer. everybody was excited and once they understood it and realized it wasn't what the they wanted. half of americans get insurance from their employer. >> i will say as a canadian i know what that could look like on the other end. it's not the only system of health care, but it's -- the single payer system does work to a great degree in canada, the uk uk and other countries. >> you know more about canada, i know a little bit about the united kingdom. and it works okay. but they are very discipl...

Million, this means some people may not know it started. this could reduce enrollment by over 1 million individuals over the next years, which matters because questions remain on the future of health care and what it should be in this country. i'm joined by former testry auto adviser under president obama. steve, good to talk to you. one of the reasons we are having this conversation now is because of what the future of health care looks like. i think what we realized is we don't have a good situation. it has probably been made worse by the meddling around trying to repeal and replace and bern...

To continue. >> those are the subsidies. >> everybody knew there was a new administration coming on. there was no appropriation made for this money. the administration decided to make a payment moving forward and wait and see and they decided they couldn't do it anymore. there were no precipitate appropriations being made. this is, yeah, great, it's medicare, what bernie sanders is putting forward, single payer system. is that what you've moving towards? in the state of pennsylvania, you have -- >> the commonwealth. >> excuse me, jake. the commonwealth of pennsylvania, how could i forget, you ...