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Can happen but the problem is, imposing very heavy lists of coverage mandates. and big, expensive things. when you start covering everything, and analogy that if you bought insurance for your car that covered all the gas you need and windshield wiper fluid, we bring down the cost of healthcare. bill: thing people insured. jillian: we appreciate it. rob: 18 after the hour, a summer surge of illegal immigrants, 100,000 detained at the border in two months. major crackdown from the white house on o...

Block grants and medicaid money. it will decide whether they are allowed to change or eliminate coverage mandates now in o damma wear. the democrats dont like it, but the political math depends on republicans who can only afford to lose two votes. count rand paul as one. >> the yes vote keeps obamacare in place, but this is like replacing obamacare and let states have more power and keep the taxes and keep the spending. >> this is probably deja vu to many of you. the republicans tried many times...

>> this is the bill that is coming before us. this is the threat right now to our nation and to millions of people. >> its just another version of the same old cruel, heartless, shameless plan that republicans have spent the last eight months trying to jam down the throats of the american people. >> that urgent message is telling. they know a last ditch republican effort has a chance of getting the necessary 50 votes. you are looking at the live pictures, thats cory booker from new jersey. anoth...

Buying insurance. he replaces subsidies with tax credits based on age, cuts more than $880 billion from expanded medicaid, lets states get waivers to charge older customers more, lets states get waivers from coverage mandates and $8 billion more for high-risk pools. talked about a political victor victory. is a good legislation? what is going to mean if this were to pass the senate? for people that need health care. >> better legislation than what we have met with obamacare. in my state of virgi...

He replaces subsidies with tax credits based on age, cuts more than $880 billion from expanded medicaid, lets states get waivers to charge older customers more, lets states get waivers from coverage mandates and $8 billion more for high-risk pools. talked about a political victor victory. is a good legislation? what is going to mean if this were to pass the senate? for people that need health care. >> better legislation than what we have met with obamacare. in my state of virginia, weve seen 47 ...

Usual expenses in medicine. where you save. and its not really magical, where you say this you dont have to have enormous subsidies from the federal government that you have in obama care because the federal government imposes all kinds of coverage mandates like contraception and other stuff that the government leaves up to you and your doctor. so i think its a very good alternative and it is a criticism of the house and havent presented a plan like this, having been in the office now for about ...

>> well, you know, heres the point. this bill was passed in march of 2010, shep. and the insurance companies and the insurance regulators for the last three and a half years have been working on the basis of trying to make this all work. based on the mandates and the changes that were in obamacare. now the president comes out in the middle of november, 0 month -- less than a month before the insurance companies have to set, if youre going to get a policy on january 1st january 1st they have to d...

>> steve, perhaps the most serious of element is nothing to do with the employer mandate or the individual mandate. i think a lot of the most serious problems has to do with coverage mandates. i want to put up statistics. this week, 300,000 people received notices from florida blue cancelling their existing policies because they dont meet obama care standards. 160,000 got notices from kaiser from california for the same reason. house speaker boehner said more people in the month of october may e...

I am telling you, i want you all to pay attention over the next five months and see if theyre offering a a single thing that they did not try when they were in charge because you wont see it. it will be the same stuff, the same oaky dock. >> the president is trying to tie mitt romney to president bush, while mr. romney is trying to tie mr. obama to the struggling economy with the idea he doesnt know how it fix it. yesterday romney looked ahead to todays speech by the president. >> his rhetoric w...

>> the cost to unwind or inimplement, you know, i think would be small relative to the higher costs that need to be incurred between now and 2014 when exchanges take effect. so, again, i think most of the industry wouldnt mind, you know, unwinding whatever has been spent. there are exceptions including companies, you know, that would benefit from the expansion of coverage to the uninsured. >> reporter: and under the health care law, some businesses would likely make money as tens of millions of ...