this. some people believe without a mandate you don t have healthy, young americans in the system that enables the health care system to pay for older people and sick people at rates that are not unfair and punitive. one of the reasons why the obamacare market never worked as envisioned is that the penalties for not having insurance under obamacare were never enough to get the young and healthy into the system in the numbers that were projected. and that has been part of a problem. so let me switch gears quickly. not only health care made the headlines but the fact that president trump no tapes. what tapes? there are no tapes. tapes? how is this going to backfir backfire? look, i think that the president s impulsiveness in trying to corner his adversaries may have gotten the best of him at this point. and they eventually needed to say some being this because it