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Dollar amount than there is for a younger person to level the playing field. were still tweaking that. the final plan is not final. >> bob, do you feel comforted by the idea of a refundable credit? >> that is cash going for you -- >> i am hopeful that the plan will fit our needs to have the preventible care. >> we have not changed the package at all. we have not changed the essential benefit package one iota and im comfortable bob, you will have with higher -- its cash in your hand, a refundable...

Against mandates. it depends what you are mandating. with obamacare you are mandating insurance that doesnt necessarily give you axis to what i offer in the doctors office. premiums are very high. deductibles are very high. narrow networks of doctors available. so president trump is right when he says that obamacare is not working and patients should have access to the insurance that works for them. that makes total sense. why should we mandate that people get insurance that doesnt necessarily w...

Part of the obamacare bill forced employers to provide a one size fits all benefit package that cost more than they had before. >> gave them better health care. >> let me explain, many employers in low margin areas stopped covering. >> be able to hire more people because dont pay for health care. >> wont pay the penalty anymore. in addition many others pushed workers to part-time status. 29ers. shortest work week in history because full-time workers pushed to part-time status so employers wouldn...

>> -- >> how this this is a jocbs bil? >> it forced employers to have a one size fits all benefit package that cost their employers before. many employers, particularly in low margin industries, retail, hospitality, simply stopped covering their workers. 8 million people -- >> you mean those businesses will be able to hire more because they wont have to pay for health care? >> no, they wont pay the penalty anymore. and many of them pushed their workers to part-time status. so many full-time work...

>> insurance companies are benefiting from president obamas 10 essential benefit package. they love that, right? everything is covered, maternity care is covered. sexually transmitted diseases are covered only as a woman and the treatment is not covered. going back to covering emergency room visits, hospitalizations and then going from there will allow -- its great to say maternity care should be covered, right? how much maternity care should be covered and how many times should it be covered? s...

Us to justice. speaker nancy pelosi sounded like she was willing to negotiate to save obamacare. >> diminish the number of people covered, reduce the benefit package and increase the cost, do damage to medicare and medicaid. >> a top house republican said this was about a lawmakers keeping their word. >> this should not be about preserving somebodys legacy. it should be about fulfilling those promises to the american people that were broken, and we are here to fulfill that promise. how refreshin...

Differently and making them change how they deliver care. >> lets wrap the next two into one. and heres the question. if they are going to keep preexisting conditions, if they are going to keep kids covered through 26 which they say, what do people have to know about the way that is made achievable. >> if youre going to have no preexisting condition exclusions, i.e. insurance cant say you have cancer were not covering you or premium going to be $50,000, you have to get everyone in the system. an...

Speaker nancy pelosi sounded like she was willing to negotiate to save obamacare. >> diminish the number of people covered, reduce the benefit package and increase the cost, do damage to medicare and medicaid. >> a top house republican said this was about a lawmakers keeping their word. >> this should not be about preserving somebodys legacy. it should be about fulfilling those promises to the american people that were broken, and we are here to fulfill that promise. how refreshing it is that yo...

Critically important parts. they fund a lot of the people who have insurance -- health insurance under obamacare. if you start repealing those mandates, where is the money going to come from? >> well, thats a big issue that were going to be dealing with. ways and means, our committee on taxes is going to be dealing with that piece. those of us on energy and commerce are going to be dealing with the expansion of medicaid. but for the time being, all the folks that have insurance, those plans are ...

Politics is local. in this case, all politics is personal. so when leader schumer talks about the 75% of the people who get their benefits in the workplace, and that is so, they are affected by the affordable care act in that the cost, increase in premiums is the lowest it has been in the 50-some years that they have been tracking that. so it has contained costs. it has increased the benefit package, as the leader said, in terms of no discrimination in terms of preexisting conditions, no lifetim...