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Along they intended on devastating the individual insurance market because they needed young healthy people on the state exchanges to pay more to supplement funding for the law. >> 100%. he's trying to present it like, well, i was busy dealing with foreign policy and somehow this got messed up. i'm sorry about that. that's not what happened. it was designed to destroy the old individual markets. zeke emanuel and others say it. he's saying, i have to the protect the congressmen. they wrote the bill. the house passed it. the president just signed it. the legislative product that resulted in this...

Bill because in addition to recent sure recollecting canceled policies, it would allow insurance carriers to enroll new people, which would obviously take away a great many people from, you know, the obamacare federal exchanges and undermine its financial structure. >> yeah, there are more, gregg, worried about it. they flat-out said it will veto. this is really about politics on both sides. the upton bill would not only say you can keep your policy but as you point out, for old customers, but they would say that they could continue to sell these policies, which the obama administration has sa...

Is running against a democrat who supported this bill through law makes everyone realize exactly what they supported. >> this effort in the house, this upton bill, it's similar to what the president a saying, right, if you can keep your plan. the white house is saying we're going to veto this if this ends up on his desk. harry reid has no intention of taking up these bills in the senate. what did that say when the white house -- does it just reek of politics? >> this is like the 39 bills the house republicans have passed that would help on the economy, they go nowhere in the senate? that happe...

>> it's friday. we're letting them fly all over the place. mary catherine, when you look back at that and look how republicans were demonized for being so horrible and so heartless that they would consider not wanting to pass this bill, right ? look where we are now. >> well, yeah, if i were a democrat and i ever said words like that which of course i don't i would asking the same thank. >> wait a second. i know better than that. >> i would ask the same question. it is a legitimate question. republicans were not just torn down for not wanting to pass the bill and called liars and worse pointin...

Commitment that people should be able to stay in their own plans was something he felt was important. >> relatively is the operative word there. that may be a relatively small number? but it's not small number-right? it adds up to 5,091,843 people with cancelled insurance. insurance that the president said over and over they can keep. some republican lawmakers say those folks deserve more than just a year's extension. >> they want to retain the choice they had, which was really, when you go back to the debate back in 20, i don't think it would have passed had they not been able to make this pr...