primary electorate at that point, because they see him, even though if he stumbles along the way, they see him as the most electable against donald trump. that really hasn t shifted much since the beginning of this race. i also think when elizabeth warren came out with her price tag for her medicare for all plan on friday, that really of that was a moment for joe biden to seize on the fact that he wants to build and repair obamacare but not replace it with something expansive and expensive like medicare for all. and then the biden campaign, to their credit, seized on that moment and capitalized on it. i think you ll see that play out in the next debate. but the race is tightening. we expected this to happen. iowa is going to be a battle. all the first four early states are going to be a battle. but right now joe biden is positioned to well in south carolina and think that s going to carry him into super tuesday which is for the first time ever is very, very delegate heavy state in
the senate to do your work even if you have to stay over the weekends or holidays, stay and do what you need to do, give us something so we can move america forward. harris: when the president signed that it executive order allowing small businesses to pull together the resources and by health insurance at better prices like large corporations are able to do, how do you think that made a difference? you are talking about how people are suffering and in your state you ve got those small businesses. the small businesses love this, we did something similar in the state of tennessee a number of years ago and we were very successful. that program was successful until obamacare came along and we didn t meet all the criteria. we allowed the small businesses to come together and have insurance products for their employees. it s a great idea, i am putting it back out there again. it s not just the state, in some
them under kot eer congressiona authority, important to us mandate from 50 employees working 30 hours a way up to 500 working 40 hours a week. this is a real game-changer for job creation for small businesses and one other piece being, given more flexibility to states. josh can give you more details. it s a really great plan and good news. so you think you could get a whole bunch of democrats onboard? sounds like it isn t a complete repeal of the affordable care act, simply trying to fix some of the serious problems of the affordable care act, congressman? exactly right, wolf. wee were dealing with and 43 members of congress, democrats and republicans. instead of screaming at each other actually working at a table together. how do we deal with the crisis at hand? people worried if they ll have health care next month. premiums up 15% to 20% around the country and kaiser foundation and others said
solvers caucus is working on a plan of its own to try to fix some of the problems of obamacare. this is a coalition of some 40 lawmakers, democrats and republicans, who are aiming to stabilize the affordable care act markets. a republican congresswoman from arizona is with us. and a democratic congressman from new jersey. they re both members of this caucus. thanks to both of you for joining us, and congresswoman mcsally, what s in the proposals you and your caucus are putting together, different from some of the earlier republican bills? we ve been working on this proposal quietly the last few weeks and laser focuses on where we can agree on stabilizing the individual insurance market. about 7% of americans get insurance, and really what is collapsing across the country. 40% of counties only have one choice. many counties have no choices. prices are going up over 100% in
places like arizona. we said, look guys. we disagree on other things but can we focus where we can provide stabilization and relief for the individual market? 2017 is coming fast, we have a four-point plan. i want to be precise. yes? you re triering to fix, repair some of the problems of obamacare but not trying to repeal the whole thing? is that right? we what we re trying to do is stabilize the individual market. often this gets, people get their shirts and skins on, is this repeal or repair? loosh look, this is stabilizing the market for families impacted by 2018 coming fast. good points in there. it s bipartisan. had some spirited discussions and debates. but it provides relief, stabilizes with a stability fund that focuses on the high-risk individuals, with pre-existing conditions. which is in both the house and the senate plan, by the way. it funds the csrs and brings