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Have an opportunity to poach the health care issue that liberals have dominated for decades instead of a backward looking promise to let americans hold on to what they had. republicans could offer the opportunity to buy a new plan that they like. and then, of course, the republicans on the hill, all they talked about all day was just repealing obama care. >> yeah. look, you don't poach an issue by doing nothing. and i think we're seeing the one silver lining to all those re, re, re-repeal efforts. and they don't have the alternative. we know this is not about fixing, doing the technical improv...

Lot of americans, particularly after assurances they heard from me that if they had a plan that they liked, they could keep it. and to those americans, i hear you loud and clear. i said that i would do everything we can to fix this morning. today i'm offering an idea to help do it. insurers can extend plans that otherwise could be cancelled in 2014 and americans whose plans have been canceled can choose to reenroll in the same kind of plan. what we're essentially saying is that the affordable care act is not going to be the factor in what happens with folks in the individual market. >> asking ...

>> you said while the law was being debated if you like your plan, you can keep t you said after the law was implemented or signed, if you like your plan, you can keep it. americans believed you, sar, when you said to them over and over. do you not believe, sir, the american people deserve a deeper, more transparent accountablity from you over and over when your policy staff and you were alerted that billions of americans would fall into the very gap you're trying to administratively fix now? >> president obama admitted that the final technical, legal language the, the legislative language in ...

Own. they're calling it landrieu-light. it is named for democratic senator from louisiana, mary landrieu is is trying to find a fix for the senate in the health care law. however this would not allow insurance companies to continue selling policies that don't meet obamacare standards. today the house democratic leader nancy pelosi ripped the republican upton plan. >> this is a conversation that's not an action but it does, does violence to the bill in other ways that idea that it was helping consumers was sort of the trojan horse whose underbelly is poisonous with, in terms of the health and w...

Unfortunately, it does not. so as a public service, we have compiled this question and answer reel, with the author of that bill, congressman fred upton of michigan, so that he can correct anyone who thinks somewhat falsely this bill does what it says it does. >> the upton plan would allow people to keep the health plans they like. >> the gentleman needs to read our bill. it doesn't say that the insurance companies must sell those policies. >> we allow people to keep the insurance they used to have. >> it doesn't mandate the health insurance policy has to be granted again. >> joining us now is...