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Different and really maybe not optimistic for either side. i don't know if either side can get support for the two proposals. when you look the a the proposals, the sanders bill is pretty far to the left. proposing a pricey, far reaching single payer system, more than a european system. elizabeth: it's all tax increases. when you ask people do they support a single payer system a small majority say yes, but when say there's a tax increase. elizabeth: and explain they'd be getting bare bones coverage. there are nuances, he has support, only around 15 senators if i'm not mistaken. >> it's more t...

Surrounding bernie sanders supporting his socialist health care plan. some of these people are, you would expect to go socialist, but others like dick blumenthal of connecticut, i didn't think he'd be for socialism. >> they've drunk the kool-aid and they don't want bernie sanders challenging them in primaries. bernie sanders is guilty of medical and economic malpractice. the single payer system, a way of saying government is controlling them. look at veterans hospital, do you want thousands more to die because they're waiting for care. the only way the other countries are budgeting because the...

That is very prosperous. we have lots of jobs, so may people that are moving -- the district i represent, i have the highest rate out of any district in the country. about a third of the district i represent don't have insurance. there are a lot of people out there that are hurting and i think they would very much welcome a chance to have a single-payer system, some sort of program that would allow people to pay into a medicare for all plan that would allow them to have affordable insurance. it's long overdue and the megan public wants it. >> jon: government run health care, that's essentially...

Middle class. he laid out those principles and that's his focus on this process. >> in january, the president gave an interview to "the washington post" saying he wanted to see a program that would allow for insurance for everybody and leverage medicare and medicare's ability to control drug prices. bernie sander's plan does that. why does the president not support it? >> the president doesn't support it and america doesn't support it or bernie sanders would be in the oval office. he pushed them forward. he didn't make it through the primary, didn't make it into the oval. that's a clear indica...

Full scale repeal? and secondly, what does the president make of democrats' efforts on single payer? >> i think that the president as well as the majority of the country knows the single payer system that the democrats are proposing is a horrible idea. i can't think of anything worse than having government be more involved in your health care instead of less involved. the president's focused on looking at ways where government gets out of the way, people have more control over their own health care and looking at ways to, again, fully repeal and replace would certainly be a priority, but we wa...