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He said this is now over. he said it is now time to look to the democrats to see what their solution is, lawrence o'donnell joins me on the phone, and you heard the first strains of this, lawrence, they want european style health care, socialized medicine. there was no conciliation in his tone, he said he sees it as a failure and that democrats don't have a better solution. >> well, the other word for what he was describing, ali, as you know, is medicaid. which is the system that mitch mcconnell is on himself, it is a federal government system. a single payer system. we throw around a lot of t...

Is still the law of the land here. and it looks as though the repeal effort is dead. >> that's right. there are also things that the department of health and human services can do to make things easier for people buying insurance off the exchange. for example, in alaska, health and human services funded a big reinsurance package that really allowed premiums to not increase so much. last year -- alaska is a big state. it has few residents. it was going to face massive premium hikes. because it set up a reinsurance program that the department of health and human services accepted, they were able...

And you heard the first strains of this, lawrence, they want european style health care, socialized medicine. there was no conciliation in his tone, he said he sees it as a failure and that democrats don't have a better solution. >> well, the other word for what he was describing, ali, as you know, is medicaid. which is the system that mitch mcconnell is on himself, it is a federal government system. a single payer system. we throw around a lot of terms that i think are not that clear to a general audience, single payer, things like that. we should always just use medic what it is. and if the ...

It will be interesting to see. what they suggest as the way forward. for myself, i can say i am pretty safe in saying for those on this side of the aisle that bailing out insurance companies, bailing out insurance companies with no thought of any kind of reform is not something i want to be part of. and i suspect that not many folks over here that are interested in that. but it will be interesting to see what they have in mind. quadrupling down on the failures of obamacare with the single payer system. we had that vote earlier thanks to the senator from montana.

Part of this. bawls the political part of -- but also the political part of this is they worried at home how their constituents would react to changes in the health care system that brought down their attempt to repeal the affordable care act. >> when i look at the most recent favorability polling from the kaiser health tracking poll, 50% favorable rating for obamacare. 44% unfavorable. in some of the polls as we have found, part of the unfavorable is people who think that obamacare doesn't go far enough. people who want single payer, which i think is pretty interesting. doesn't mean those peo...