maura calsyn? guest: it goes back to your first question about what does medicare for all mean. her plan is closer to the current medicare system. that is both public and private. what is important about her plan is that she would impose far stricter rules on private plans and make sure that they would get the benefit of a lot of influx of people but they would have to play by pretty strict rules in terms of who would be like that.ings again, the devil is in the details. i think it is a good debate to have. health care is such a huge part of our economy, that having iterations of people start thinking about these issues more and more is really important. we had a call or talking about the benefit pharmacy managers. politico says 15 of the ondidates declared positions drug costs. senator amy klobuchar, among others. it has also been an issue for president trump, with some issues initiated to chacko -- to tackle drug costs. where are we with that in the administration? guest: we have also seen congre

maura calsyn goo ahead. >> guest: i don't even know where to start. florida has not expanded medicaid and there are a lot of resources by emergency rooms especially in rural areas that are struggling but the decision to not expandd medicaid is one f the key reasons. i will just leave it at that. >> guest: when the plan was voted on and implemented by the obama administration was the expansion of medicaid to key an integral part of that? was anticipated to be as big a deal as it has become? >> guest: when it was implemented it was part of the law. it wasn't intended to be optional. it was a supreme court decision that gave us the option to opt out and not expand. the result that states haves and have-nots with this day. >> guest: . >> host: we have seen that in the data mainly southern in some western states. guess who you're seeing it in correlation with a lot of her hospital cultures and where also seeing it with the uninsured. >> host: ben ippolito. >> guest: i don't think you are clueless. i would say the affordable care act or obamacare may crysta

maura calsyn?uest: it goes back to your first question about what does medicare for all mean. her plan is closer to the current medicare system. that is both public and private. what is important about her plan is that she would impose far stricter rules on private plans and make sure that they would get the benefit of a lot of influx of people but they would have to play by pretty strict rules in terms of who would be like that.ings again, the devil is in the details. i think it is a good debate to have. health care is such a huge part of our economy, that having iterations of people start thinking about these issues more and more is really important. we had a call or talking about the benefit pharmacy managers. politico says 15 of the ondidates declared positions drug costs. senator amy klobuchar, among others. it has also been an issue for president trump, with some issues initiated to chacko -- to tackle drug costs. where are we with that in the administration? guest: we have also seen congress

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calsyn,oined by maura of the center for american progress, and benedic ippolito, research fellow with the american enterprise institute. we spent the first hour hearing from viewers on what they thought about improving the u.s. health care system. so far we have heard a lot from democrats. the biggest item, the biggest talking point

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