talk about payment reform and delivery system reform in 140 characters. it s hard to talk about in the a snapshot and soundbite. but it s easy to talk about it when you talk to a family who s gotten life-saving treatment at a place where they were uninsured five years ago. they walked into the emergency room. they could not get treatment they needed but now they re getting care and better and so i ve talked to these ceos and health systems. i ve talked to the leaders that run hospitals, i work with them and they believe the affordable care act means a whole lot to them and it s allowing them the opportunity to do what they do best, that s save lives. i m not talking one or two, i m talking tens of millions in cities across the country. we do know for certain the uninsured rate in 2009 was 16.4%, now it s 10%. one more word anton and jess, yes or no, do republicans fully repeal and not replace the affordable care act or do they repeal and replace it? yes or no do they repeal it, anton
health care system that has been reformed it s almost like the conversation about whether you should eat broccoli and spinach. everybody knows broccoli and spinach is good for you. and what the republicans are trying to get us to do is understand that we don t need broccoli and spinach, they want to give us a happy meal box but they re not going to tell us what s in the happy meal box. what i m clear about, broccoli and spinach is good for you whether you like it or not and happy meals are not good for you at all. so we have to get beyond this conversation and rhetoric and get deep interwhat the law is doing to save people s lives. here s the thing. happy meals are well advertised as well. anton, very quickly, why didn t the administration advertise all these great things years and years ago so that people felt the value and understood the value of the affordable care act. you have southern states letting hospitals close rather than take the expansion of medicaid because they ve been
i believe they ll do that. yes. jess? no. all right, bold prediction from jess mcintosh. anton gunn, jess mcintosh, thanks to both of you. still ahead, obamacare is just one of the battles democrats are preparing for in the trump era. up next, california takes bold moves to brace for the incoming president recruit ago former u.s. attorney general. later, donald trump s self-imposed deadline for revealing allegedly new information on the russian hacking has come and gone. the incoming president escalated his fight with his own intelligence agencies, meanwhile. so inside donald trump s love affair with wikileaks ahead. americans - 83% try to eat healthy. yet up 90% fall short in getting key nutrients from food alone. let s do more. add one a day women s complete with key nutrients we may need. plus it supports bone health with calcium and vitamin d. one a day women s in gummies and tablets. so we know how to cover almost almoanything.hing, even a rodent ride-along.
stand. we need to emulate what the republicans did in 2016. ed that that had nothing do with obamacare, i just want to giveou a chance to hear him say that. thank you, karen bass. thanks for having me o joining us now is jess mcintosh and anton gun, a health care strategist extraordinaire. i m going to come to you first on this, jess. here s the thing. republicans have been saying for so long that they re going to repeal and replace, repeal and replace. it s a catch phrase but they never had a risk of having to do it because they always had barack obama to save them from themselves. right. now that they have to do it, do you think they will go forward? i don t. i think republicans really like to govern by catch phrase because they don t like the govern. the reason why the president spent so much political capital putting the affordable care act in place and remember how long and awful it was to be a democrat working on the hill at that moment, that was really intense. he d
joining us now is jess mcintosh and anton gun, a health care strategist extraordinaire. i m going to come to you first on this, jess. here s the thing. republicans have been saying for so long that they re going to repeal and replace, repeal and replace. it s a catch phrase but they never had a risk of having to do it because they always had barack obama to save them from themselves. right. now that they have to do it, do you think they will go forward? i don t. i think republicans really like to govern by catch phrase because they don t like the govern. the reason why the president spent so much political capital putting the affordable care act in place and remember how long and awful it was to be a democrat working on the hill at that moment, that was really intense. he did that, we all did that, because it mattered so much. because we cared so much about making sure that millions of americans got insurance who didn t have it before. we cared about fixing that problem because