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Stla they are part of the central part of yooununited sta middle america. kentucky is a perfect example of that. they're just telling you, hey, we're out in middle america and our message is coming from here. i think it's brilliant. >> it's also a place where there was a successful health care exchange under obamacare. so i'm sure he will talk about that. >> so david gregory, one more question to you. obviously we've seen anger at these town hall meetings across the country. republican town hall meetings with lots of democrats showing up saying do your job, you owe us basically. and yesterday ...

>> this next week will be a big one for the future of healthcare in the u.s. tell us what's going on. >> absolutely. it's the beginning of what will most certainly be a very long road for whatever ends up replacing obamacare. on monday republican leadership is expected to formally introduce their ripley repeal replaced plan but the draft that was leaked this week is anything but final and will go through lots of changes as it works its way through committees. that process is expected to take weeks if not months or you also have the governors will be on capitol hill on monday making their case ...

>> this next week will be a big one for the future of healthcare in the u.s. tell us what's going on. >> absolutely. it's the beginning of what will most certainly be a very long road for whatever ends up replacing obamacare. on monday republican leadership is expected to formally introduce their ripley repeal replaced plan but the draft that was leaked this week is anything but final and will go through lots of changes as it works its way through committees. that process is expected to take weeks if not months or you also have the governors will be on capitol hill on monday making their case ...

Working very hard at social security, welfare reform. we don't want to add another column long term that we can't pay for. we want to provide individual options for everyone's health care, but allow them to make the choices instead of federal man dates. elizabeth: medicaid, hot topic. people at home are saying don't mess with my medicaid. could that be a threat here? >> no, i don't think it is. a lot of people were driven to medicaid under obamacare. sadly, this is a lot of doctors who aren't taking it. i believe of the 18 million that did get insurance, close to 12 million were put on medicai...

Program, doctor. the one thing they tell me is the reason they have not hired more people, invested more in their business is because of the cost of healthcare. >> let me remind you -- >> when you have allegelation that is 18% of the economic growth story, you can be slur that healthcare will have an impact on economic growth. >> dr. zeke emanuel there. i don't know how you can argue something that is 18% of the economy doesn't impact economic growth. >> that's right. look at the individual obamacare mandates. once you have 50 employees, i've had a lot of business owners say that i can expand ...