David Gregory: Sanders and Cruz ‘Going Back to the Original ObamaCare Debate’

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GREGORY: "Confused, I have to say, because we're really going back to the original ObamaCare debate, which is, how do you move the market in a sufficient way to guarantee coverage for millions, tens of millions of Americans, without government putting its finger on the scale to really bring all of that leverage to the market to provide those guarantees. That whole debate about federal mandates. And if you create a situation of choice and access, do you still get sufficient numbers to keep prices low. And one of the areas of Obamacare that has not worked very successfully is getting younger, healthier people to get insurance to ultimately pay for those older and sicker people who need to use insurance more. The other political piece is if they do take ObamaCare away without an immediate replacement, as we've been saying for weeks, it becomes a huge political problem because you -- it's very hard to take a benefit away once given. There are a lot of people who are benefitting from ObamaCare. And it's not at all clear that the president or Republicans are set in their own strategy of what replaces it, which means a lot of debate and a lot of political capital that has to be expended to campaign for what that ultimate replacement is, while Democrats keep churning the political issue."