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They flipped it into health care. what they are trying to do is make it more affordable. under obamacare, rising premiums are making it unaffordable as it was supposed to be the affordable care act. whatever happened to the affordability? >> that's exactly right. we keep having this conversation around the cbo score but how many people are covered, which is an important conversation conversation. but white republicans and conservatives care about is, the fact that they want health care that is affordable. they want the best health care on the globe, and has been threatened by the obamacare pol...

Later he referred to it as an uphill climb. >> we have 52-48. that means basically we can't lose anybody. >> reporter: but he didn't realize it would be so uphill. >> i talked bay plabout a plan heart. i said, add some money to it. a plan with heart, but yet obamacare is dead. >> now the house and the senate own the solution. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell said the president would have to help bring it over the finish line. >> we always anticipated the president would be very important in getting us to a conclusion. after all, under our system, he's the man with the signature. >> repor...

Would be $700 but the subsidies are going away, a 40-year-old making 26,000 by 2026 now going to pay almost double of what they would have under obamacare. one more example, a 64-year-old, at 65 you can get into medicaid. 64-year-old making $57,000 by 2026, under obamacare, silver package, they would have been paying 6800. under obamacare, the bronze package which we're now using as the benchmark because that's what trump care has, they would pay a lot less, $4400. this is what they pay under trump care, $16,000. a 64-year-old making a little more than the national average will go from paying ...

Tinkering they do now, has to pass. >> absolutely. look, he is speaking the truth in a lot of ways. philosophically, the two parties are and have been for some time, very, very different on their sort of global approach to health care. i think that people, though, out there looking at this saying, why can't these parties work together on something that is such a huge part of the economy, that is something that is so vital to everybody's lives, all of their constituents' lives, is mind boggling. but you know what, it happened when the democrats passed obamacare. they will tell you from the obam...

President trump described filled with heart. >> but the republicans have insisted for seven years they don't want obamacare, they want to repeal obamacare. the democrats, like you, say don't repeal it, let's fix it. is there any middle ground there? >> reporter: an important short term middle ground, wolf, would be to stop the sabotage of the health care act. i sat down with the one company that's left providing health care, and he said the reason they have raised their rates this year is because of instability and uncertainty about the path forward. we need to work in a bipartisan way to stab...