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Insurers, partly by breaking down some of the regulatory barriers that exist in the state exchanges. second, lower pharmaceutical drug prices and in fact, medical care costs generally but pharmaceutical drug prices are much higher than they should be, much higher than in other industrialized countries partly because of excessive profits or price gouging and lack of transparency, negotiation for medicare prices just as the v.a. does it. there are other points where we can come together and improve the system that exists now, the affordable care act but simply insisting on repeal and decimating ...

Us. so the landscape has changed, completely changed. >> that's why when looking at this bill and looking at the cbo score, we have to look at the effect on medicaid as much as we have to look at the effect on people in the individual markets who have a policy on the exchanges. medicaid is 70 million people, the exchanges are 10 or 11 million people. >> exactly. what people tell me time and time again, i'm sure you heard it from your friends who buy insurance on the exchanges, state exchanges or healthcare.gov. if they can find a plan on the exchange, it's very expensive. high deductibles, man...

By the prospect of in senate bill or something like it passing? or do you think they like the certainty of obamacare what they've come to adapt to service that market. >> they certainly like certainty but on one level they like it because more money is put into stabilize the state exchanges. and also keeping in mind the lobby, the health care lobby is 3 and a half not four times bigger than any other lobbying effort out there. mitch mcconnell met with lobbyists from the health care industry before meeting with the 13 members of senate writing this with him. if you're a hospital out there you'v...

Exchanges and also keep in mind the lobby, the health care lobby is three and a half to four times bigger than any other lobbying effort out there. mitch mcconnell met with lobbyists in the health care industry before meeting with the 13 members of senate who are writing this with him. but if you're a hospital out there you see a temporary boon, maybe this is a positive. when people go to the emergency room, especially in low income areas, medicaid pays for that. if people are without that coverage hospitals are still going to see people who need emergency care. so at the end of the day this i...

Keep your doctor when you can't keep your doctor. what is mean is forcing young people to pay up for coverage when maybe they can't afford that coverage. what is mean is saying government subsidies will help when they won't or plenty of state exchanges will have their back when they can't. what is mean, premium increases. keeps soaring. coverage that keeps shrinking. what is mean the telling folks healthcare is like money in the bank even if it means there's no money left in their pocket. that's what's mean. that is what is heartless. not republicans introducing democrats to something called m...