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Flexibility to be able to reform medicaid. will help americans to be able to purchase health insurance, but the cost of health insurance will go down. and so, we're looking forward, as i told leaders in the senate today as i'm meeting with members of congress this afternoon, we really do believe this is a historic opportunity to repeal the failed policies of obamacare. and replace it with the kind of reforms that'll lower the cost of health insurance, even while we ensure that the most vulnerable have access to better coverage through medicaid and greater state flexibility. >> reporter: so why...

Benefit for buying health coverage. those folks that are out there in the individual small group market know tax benefit and that's what this plan would do. state flexibility it's incredibly important that we allow the states to be the ones that are defining what health coverage, have the flexibility in the medicaid program to be able to respond to their vulnerable population. lawsuit abuse, the president mentioned and it's incredibly important the practice of defensive medicine wastes billions of dollars every single year and we need to address that as well. president talked about a glide pat...

Access to better coverage through medicaid and greater state flexibility. >> where are conservatives so opposed? >> i think we are early in the legislative process. and the president has made it clear we are open to ways to improve the bill but we believe the american health care act is the right framework for replacing obamacare. in the days ahead the president and i look forward to making that point the members of congress and the people of america. >> thank you, i appreciate it. of course the key there they are very early in this process, they seem to be open to making changes or adjustment...

Word. i shouldn't have done that. i'm good at branding. you're going to see them now come out obstruct and resist. all right. well, at least i can take credit for it, and they work with us. we are going to hopefully work with the democrats because ultimately we're all people tt love this country and we want to dot right thing, including reforms like expanded health care savings accounts, state flexibility, and the ability to purchase across state lines. the state lines are so important for competition. everybody has wanted to do it for years. what's not to do? that's going to be very important...

They have a sign sist, resist. they want to resist everything, including cabinet members. they have many cabinet members that haven't been approved yet. people that are extraordinary, all of whom are going to be approved but they just take forever. it's called obstruct and resist. i hope i didn't give them a new phrase because their rephrase is resist. i think i just gave them another word. i shouldn't have done that. i'm going to brand it. you're going to see them now come out and "obstruct and resist" and they work with us. and we are going to hopefully work with the democrats because ultima...