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Calls. without mccain in the senate, the senate lacks the votes to even be able to debate the bill. dr. sanjay gupta suggests that mccains condition is fairly serious. what happens if the arizona senator is out for longer than a week. >> its going to make life a lot more difficult for senate majority leader mitch mcconnell, jake. thats because right now he is holding onto 50 republican votes to even get this bill to the floor to begin debate. and the longer that this debate goes on behind closed...

Billion of stabilization funds, changing the eligibility of catastrophic plans and going to improve their coverage numbers somewhat. how much? cbo will have to decide. directionally go a little north. >> catherine, you in your latest column you talk about the fact that people shouldnt get distracted from what is going on in capitol hill with everything else that is going on. this affects every american at one point or another in their lives. certainly affects all their families very directly. wh...

Pre-existing conditions. we are eliminate right leg mandates. how it addresses those other three are important. their methodology weighs heavily bone the individual mandate and so the fact that we eliminate mandates, the american people want those gone means that the cbo score will not be as good in coverage numbers. so i want to look at how they discuss their methodology and then make my own decision as to the adequacy of coverage. >> all right. youve been all over this issue. appreciate you co...

Lower coverage numbers and ultimately a democratic push for singer payer medicine. >> what is the bill going to look like. right now it seems to have gone, some of the people like the woman you heard in the town hall, not repeal and replace but fix whats there. fix what exists essentially. is that feasible? is that the right path? >> i think its going to be some combination of repealing the parts of obamacare that dont work and fixing some of the problems the system is facing. some renewed effor...

A very clear idea about how this is going to shake out. the republicans that im talking to dont have a clear sense of what the effect of the cruz amendment will be on either coastal coverage numbers, we have to wait and see on that score. but what it does do this new conversation is concerns a number of moderate members for the very fact of what garrett mentioned, it brings things like pre-existing conditions back into the conversation because even though under the cruz plan insurers have to off...

It. >> a lot of these changes are relatively small and many are not going to bring down this es 22 million uninnumbered, really, really exceptionally bad for republicans. cannot go home and sell that. that remains one of the big, underlying problems with this bill. yeah, put more money here and there, but are you going get the coverage numbers up? its not clear these changeless do that. >> one of the things you hear from some conservative senators, ron johnson of wisconsin, theyre saying the cbo...

In the meeting today, the director of the congressional budget office and some of his deputies were in them meeting. republicans have a lot of questions about the score. inevitably, they will tweak it in the next few weeks, and probably get an new score. remember, they continue to work the rest. i was told when they came out of that meeting, that some republicans did not like what they were hearing from the congressional budget office. and again, that is where you have republican senators try to...

Die if you cut people from medicaid. that means you are killing, killing them. >> republican leaders say dont believe the doomsday predictions. >> in all honesty, we have to get real about it because weve got a lot of things the federal government has to do besides health care. if we go that route, thats the only thing the federal government is going to be basically doing. >> on the coverage numbers, republican leaders will tell you thats because people would no longer have a gun to their heads ...

It is important we have a scorekeeper. we can always complain about the nature of the score. i think their coverage numbers, theres more to the story than what the number implies. having said that, its important we have a referee. [ inaudible question ] >> it is. [ inaudible question ] >> nope, they havent finished their bill. we have not made any of those decisions. ill leave it up to the senate. >> order in the house health care, put it down again and it went through. what is your advice to mi...

Opinions on these things. we can always complain about the nature of the score. i think their coverage numbers, theres more to the story than what the number implies. but having said that, its important that we have a referee. yeah. >> i was wondering if whether or not youll get a conference -- >> no. they havent even finished their bill. wae ha we have not midany of those decisions. ill leave it up to the senate, casey. >> health care. what is your advice? >> its private. meaning, i keep my adv...