law. so there's a political urgency to move to something else. so i have a full expectation that they will pass a bill that repeals it. at that point, they will set out to craft a replacement plan and in the interim they will leave in place some of the components of the affordable care act. the subsidies. some insurance regulations. which they are unlikely to repeal in the special procedures they call reconciliation. there's going to be no abrupt change. there's no going back to 2007. there's no scare tactics. >> douglas, how can you say there will be no abrupt change if they repeal it and don't leave, you know, most of it intact because if you ask the architects of obama -- >> you can easily. >> let me just finish. if you ask the architect, they say one part is often reliant on the other. so how can people be sure they will be covered in the interim before something else is passed? >> so you pass a bill in 2017 that says effective january 1st, 2020, the following provisions