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Can you give us any intel on what that secret plan is? >> i think it's so secret that it hasn't been developed yet. i think the republicans have -- since we passed the affordable care act back in 2010, they have talked about just repeal. repeal, repeal. then they said repeal and replace. but then they had nothing to replace it with. so it is really a bottomless pit of ideas that never seem to come to the surface in the republican caucus. and i think it's because they really don't want to have a solution for those who have been uninsured. the 45 million americans who are uninsured. that is not ...

Make the affordable care act more palatable to the public and less of a target for the republicans. >> there is no such thing as a free lunch. the question is will the younger voters realize that now their premiums sky rocket. there is a difference between price and cost. the left loves to throw money that things to reduce the price. but they don't do anything to reduce the cost. only the free market reduces the cost of things. that is why people in poverty in america have refrigerates and telephones. obamacare does nothing to lower the cost. it takes money from other people. >> leslie is shak...

They wanted to keep, rising premiums so their deductibles, some of them are doubling. they're paying more for health care. >> moms and dads are worried they're going to lose their health care plan. >> the final wave of the principle failure is going to be the cost. the idea that this was going to lower costs, they say it's going to raise the cost. >> young adults are now witnessing the increase in health care costs and are wondering whether they're going to be able to afford even a basic policy. >> millions of americans have lost their health insurance because of obama care. and others are pay...

Banked on people being thrown off old insurance that did not conform to obama care. a lot of them young and healthy and buying their insurance plans. and if you don't have those young and healthy people and if they are allowed to keep their insurance plan and the administrative fix goes through, that could cause the pool of people in the obama care exchanges to skew to the elerly and sick and cause premiums to sky rocket. that is problematic for the insurance companies. >> i am confused about something jamie. democrats who pushed the president to come up with an idea see one and then they defe...

Does that mean if jetblue and other carriers could get into those slots it could create more competition in some airports and maybe keep prices down? >> well, you know, i spoke to a few consumer advocates and they do believe that this is a good deal more or less for the consumer. under the terms of this merger, they don't believe that fliers are going to see ticket prices sky rocket. you may see some technical computer hiccups, maybe at the ticket counter, some glitches in that way as the two companies move forward to integrate their computer systems once this is a done deal. but consumer watc...