fixes, things to have made obamacare more sustainable, would you have been open to changes or improvements in obamacare? absolutely. for example for an insurance company going to a new market it has to have reinsurance and the republicans dismantled that. the reason you have to be reinsured you may have a disproportionate share of really sick people if that happens, you go bankrupt. that s where the reinsurance comes in. republicans took it away. we need to put it back. cost sharing needs to be locked down as absolute responsibility of the administration to do cost sharing. because the president is not willing to commit to doing it we have. how about obama i mean are you are you saying that obamacare in its current form was perfect and there no room improvement? no. realize the exchange was the republican plan. i would prefer to have a single
pair medical care for all. you didn t think obamacare went far enough? it needed a public option oh so you had true competition. we added a public option to the worker workers a compensation in plan in oregon. cutting the cost in half machine rhode island copied oregon cut the cost in rhode island in half. we should have had a public but i think the complexity of the health care it creates so much stress. medicaid, medicare, the exchange, the exchange for worker s co worker s com and so forth. the people that need it most understand it the least pch i want to ask the politics about this. are you privately routing for mitch mcconnell s bill to pass and be able to run against
though because i know even president obama during the transition had spoke privately with the president was able to acknowledge there were room for some tweaks. do you think there is a missed opportunity on the table in washington for democrats and republicans to have made some iks fixes things to have made obamacare more sustainable would you have been open to changes or improvements in obamacare. absolutely. for example for an insurance company going to a new market it has to have reinsurance and the republicans dismantled that. the reason you have to be reinsured you may have a disproproergs knit share of really sick people if that happens you go bankrupt. that s where the reinsurance comes in. republicans took it away. we need to put it back. cost sharing needs to be locked down as absolute responsibility of the administration to do cost sharing. because the president is not willing to commit to doing it we have. how about obama i mean are you are you saying that obamac
gosh, it sounds like everybody is passing around the book, art of the deal. do you think he wishes to have a bill passed or he wishes to bring a bill up for a vote to say hey, i tried and it failed? there is a lot of speculation on it. honestly, i don t know, as you know he and his party have campaigned for seven long years on repeal and replace obamacare. and on one level, i think he would certainly like to get this done. it s what they promised to voters. it s what the base wants. but this bill is very unpopular, the senate bill is not really much different than the house bill. the president asked for it to be as generous, not as mean, it is not significantly different than the house bill, really. low approval ratings on the house bill. there is going to be a lot of unhappy people in this country if these provisions take effect. so there are definitely outside consultants on senate races who
douglas: i am mystified by the health care debates in this country. the one thing i do know is that this politicization of absolutely everything that s going on in your country and my own is really disheartening to the general public. we really are seeing people making accusations like that. just to be some decency in the debate. can there be some recognition of what happens. the politicization of everything. it s one of the status developments status developments of our time. eboni: since the shooting everyone has called for civil discourse, to call on our better humanity but we don t seem to be getting closer. curtis: all i want to do was know what s in the bill. remember obamacare, nancy pelos nancy pelosi. speaker ryan, don t worry. now it is hush-hush. we don t know what the republican senate majority bill