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>> i think today -- i guarantee you, when i'm on a 2:00 panel with mr. graham and mr. cassidy, and they're throwing that back, the thing i'm going to focus on is affordable insurance today. we will have lots of opportunity to talk about affordability in the long run, but this week we have got to make sure that cutting access to people under graham/cassidy is the focal point of how that is going to drive up costs in the private sector. so there's lots of ways to drive down costs, and what we need to focus on as we look at a universal plan where everybody's guaranteed access, is what are the way...

Single-payer. >> that could go single-payer. or cstate of tennessee and florida can experiment with a more market-based system. >> what you think of this bill james? is this better than what we have? >> certainly what we have is failing. i think sometimes it gets lost in the edebate over looking at the details of potential alternatives but this great system of competition we were supposed to get under obamacare next year, there are more than 1500 counties in the united states that will have only one insurer. one option, no competition obamacare exchanges. the premium is rising 20, 30 and more ...

Opportunity. they will change is good i think one of the things help with this is around a unifying principle here there is something that brings republics together which is state rights. there are not many things out there that does unify the party that way. this is also a bipartisan tradition. the idea of involving more healthcare down to the states. because it is something democrats liked as well too. >> are you willing to live with the possibility that california and other states might decide to go single-payer? and i mean that basically the government will run healthcare. >> that is the b...

Dan, what would this bill do? >> paul, i think it does, essentially, three things. it repeals the individual and employer mandates. it is going to repeal the 2.3% medical device tax, and most importantly, it replaces the money spent on tax credits and medicaid expansion with block grants back to the states which would allow the governors and the state legislators to design health care programs appropriate to the populations of their states. paul: now, those states would have to apply for waivers to the federal government -- >> right. paul: -- for permission to move the plans that they have, an...

Absolutely justified. we are watching california -- is heading straight for not a train wreck but a train wreck over a cliff. it's economically impossible tot achieve with what they are trying to do. single-payer at the state level? they are an economy that's one of the largest -- third in the world. >> sean: state income tax. >> the most taxed state in the union and productive people are fleeing california. a high network. the idea of graham-cassidy, block grants. all great to rally to. no, as a senator, i took seriously what the leadership of the republican party said when they took control ...