talking about. trying to privatize out market and create competition. trying to take control away from the government and saying band together, negotiate your healthcare options. negotiate your healthcare prices and that is really the economy we were founded on. ainsley: president saying this is the end of obamacare. getting rid of the individual mandate. do you agree with that? is that true? i think that s a little optimistic, maybe a little exaggerated. this is great first step it will absolutely cause a series of events. getting riltd of the individual mandate the infrastructure of the affordable care act is still there. ainsley: dr. saphier thanks for being with us. thanks for having me. ainsley: california goes to pot and become sanctuary to illegals. will it become your home state as well. and your new year s wasn t as good as it was for these guys. they got to celebrate with the president. how they crashed the white house party. we re going to tell you one of them is going t
of obamacare essentially i think obamacare is over because of that. we re going to come up with something that s really going to be very good. ainsley: what does that mean for healthcare in the year ahead? here so discuss is radz dr. nicole saphier. great to have you here. good morning. happy new year. ainsley: to you too and your cute family, those boys. choice great for the individual. you don t have to buy into obamacare if you don t want it and can t afford it. s. that good for obamacare? president trump and his cabinet are absolutely using tactics to reform the health insurance market and what they were able to slide through at the end of 2017 getting rid of the individual mandate. this does give people choice. you as an individual you have a choice. you will not be taxed or fined by the government if you decide not to have health insurance. is that necessarily the most responsible thing? i m not sure about that. however i know a lot of people don t need these large robust pla
they need to decide what is their goal. just going on a rhetoric of a repeal and replace is not going to get it done. they need to come to the table. they need a bullet list. i love checklists. what are top three priorities get rid of individual mandate. how about reforming medicaid. change the way medicaid is dispersed meaning small premiums, work requirements. what are we doing with medicaid? offer catastrophic plans? are we going to allow people to have more tailored healthcare plans? i think that s what the american people wants. that s what these people have been elected on. ainsley: yeah. the director of legislative affairs mark short says this is what he says will happen in the coming year. looking to sure up the markets draivelg actions we can take such as you saw president signed executive order allowing associated health plans more people can pool their resources together to lower premiums. you will see us take administrative action on obamacare. ainsley: lowering premiums
away. that s a great start. where are we going from here? because what we will see not in 2018 we will see more insurance companies pulling away from the market place and you are going to start seeing more of collapse. what are we going to do to stabilize it? and there is a lot that they can do. president trump is already starting on it. he is starting talking about the association health plans. and with that is essentially small businesses can band together and negotiate insurance prices with that their options are they don t have to have these big large essential benefits that s under the affordable care act. people that don t need large plans can actually have a more slim version of it again, more choice. saints. ainsley: that sounds great. do you think that can actually happy. the president has ideas. he tells congress. congress doesn t seem to be able to get any of it accomplished. it takes forever. they can t agree on anything. do you think they will fix the problems with obamaca
failed to ahe obey basic security calls. huma abedin put classified state department passwords in the hands of apparently foreign agents according to the daily caller. abedin forwarded emails to her personal yahoo account just before it was hacked. great. democrat doug jones will officially be sworn in to the u.s. senate tomorrow as roy moore still refuses to give up on the special election down in alabama. we re now learning as well that moore s hopes were dashed by 23,000 write know votes for the likes of bugs bunny, mickey moose, somebody wrote in the name of jesus. that s some of the news. ainsley, the doctor is in. ainsley: thank you so much, steve. president trump ended 2017 by declaring obamacare essentially over. now we are overturning the individual mandates. most unpopular thing in obamacare. essentially i think it ultimately leads to the end