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joining us now, neera tanden, president of the center for american progress, and ezra levin, co-executiveector of the indivisible project. neera, you worked on the affordable care act in the obama administration. what do you make of the president's new strategy announced three minutes ago that, forget about trying to provide any sorts of guarantees of any kinds of health insurance in america. just repeal obamacare completely, and then invite the democrats to join you in an effort to put something else there. >> yeah, i think this might be plan d, e, or f for donald trump. you know, i think the real problem for him is that he does not have a vision of health care for americans. he can't talk about this issue. he can't discuss it in detail. he's been unable to persuade the american people or the senate or house members on his legislation. so i think this kind of statement in which, after he's attacked democrats day in and day out, is just like another ludicrous explanation for what's happened here, for a defeat in which he could not get the members of his own party to support a bill because

also joining us now, neera tanden, president for the center of american progress. a, your reading of the state of play tonight. >> well, first of all, they did just release the legislative language for the quote, unquote, skinny repeal. now they're saying they would like to vote on it in the next few hours. so let me just say to the american people they have a bill that will affect the health care of the -- the entire health care system. it's going to affect health insurance premiums, that has been available to the public maybe for two, three, four hours before they vote on it. but that's not the most unusual thing. the most unusual thing is that republican after republican said today, as you noted, that they are opposed to this bill. they are voting for a bill that they say themselves -- lindsey graham said himself will raise premiums, but he's voting to get it to a conference that paul ryan, in his release, did not actually say would occur. he may have a conference, but he did not guarantee a conference. some have had personal assurances. this is the most kafkaesq

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are killing people because center for american progress you know that pedestrian finance group neera tanden runs and they're part of the resistance so the ones pushing all these stories about russia gate and russia conspiracy theories well five separate people were by lined on the center for american progress post about how many people see a will kill this post is quite long but all the authors really do is to take the cabo estimates of how many people will lose coverage under eight h.c.a. and then divide that number by eight thirty they do this because there is a study that shows that one person dies on necessarily for every eight hundred thirty people who lack health insurance so he did it for all of them single payer and it is that down of the bottom zero deaths due to not having any coverage that is obamacare the one that everybody is fighting to defend to the death all the left wing the liberals have been co-opted into supporting a program written by the heritage institute a very far right wing economic think tank and it's a little bit. obamacare is not quite as bad as trump care but t

joining us now is neera tanden, president and ceo of center for american progress.ration as a senior advisor and helped write obamacare. good to have you here. just so our viewers know, a skinny repeal would repeal the mandates and also the medical device tax but the rest of the structure essentially stays in place what do you guys think of this >> well, it's not really what we think. i mean the congressional budget office has a score of a proposal like this and it finds that premiums increase by 20% both for people inside the exchanges and outside of them. so people who aren't even really covered by the aca would face 20% premium increases as well as 16 million people would lose coverage over the next few years. so i mean i think what's -- >> you're talking about a very specific skinny repeal or are you talking about the most recent on the -- >> yes. >> the cbo report on the bigger package? >> yes i know it's a confusing process because we're discussing a proposal no one has actually seen, but the cbo scored a proposal like skinny repeal, which was eliminating the

are killing people because center for american progress you know that predestiny finance group neera tanden runs and they're part of the resistance so the ones pushing all these stories about russia gate and russia conspiracy theories all five separate people were by line down the center for american progress post about how many people a will kill this post is quite long but all the authors really do is to take the c b o estimates of how many people will lose coverage under eight h.c.a. and then divide that number by eight thirty they do this because there is a study that shows that one person dies on necessarily for every eight hundred thirty people who lack health insurance so he did for all of them single payer and it is that down of the bottom zero deaths due to not having any coverage that is obamacare the one that everybody is fighting to defend to the death all the left wing the liberals have been co-opted into and you know. supporting a program written by the heritage institute a very far right wing economic think tank and it's a little bit you know. obamacare is not quite as bad as