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Create a public option to compete. the other concept is how do we put downward pressure on high cost drugs? one of the ways we think that would be very helpful is for specialty and high cost drugs to have the department of health and human services negotiate in terms of those prices to push downward pressure. >> do you think that's something realistic that you could see happening? >> i think when one asks the question what are you going to do about drug prices? what are you going to do about these things, these are realistic solutions. i think that's where the conversation's going to go. we're...

>> so give republican congressman, congresswomen, republican senators and future members of the trump administration your strongest argument for what the affordable care act has done and why they should keep as much as possible. give us before and after. >> the before and after in terms of the help to people, 150 million americans get insurance through their job. that's most people. for most people, the benefits, and they don't know it's the affordable care act, if you lose your job and you have pre-existing conditions, can't keep you out. i have met the woman who delayed her chemotherapy beca...

Marketplace i think most people don't realize is private insurers. so you're going to work with e insurers. that's part of how it works. they're providing the insurance through private sector insurance. having a working relationship and making it something where they can provide the product for people is important. on your second question, on the issue of medicare and the issue of trying to voucher rise medicare, that's a space where we believe you would end up in a downward spiral and death spiral and only the sickest could be there and it would be very expensive. people would not be protecte...

And it's not expensive to the united states. we pay more for health care than any other country and get worse outcomes. we pay 20% to private health insurance companies just in overhead administrative costs. it's based on profits. and 2% in medicare because it's much more efficient for the government. if the government provided a single payer system for everybody. anybody could access it. ted cruz wouldn't be in the bind. >> 60 million glrz in medicare. >> yeah, there's no waste there. none whatsoever. none. >> okay. >> please. >> if ted cruz is principally opposed to the government being invo...

>> well, i think people certainly did. i mean, there was laughter when he proposed his tax plan. you know, the press conference afterwards was one of the strangest i've been to. usually reporters jump all over each other to ask questions. people were shell shocked, didn't know what to ask. long moments of silence where reporters couldn't figure out what to ask him. >> what i thought was an incredibly revealing exchange, full prulutocratic id, what he said about medicare and compared that to food stamps. take a listen. >> medicare will go bankrupt. it's inevitable. so taxes have to be spent on ...