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Constituents upset about youre creating another entitlement program? were calling it tax credits that we actually send people checks. >> reporter: the house republicans proposing the bill did not offer any estimate of how much their plan would cost or how many people would lose coverage. >> the biggest concern i have, will it lower health care costs and premiums to those people that i serve? >> the plans will be much less expensive than obamacare, theyll be far better than obamacare. it will be ...

Ryan as they get ready to roll it out in a cohesive manner. you still have more conservative factions within the gop and those pointing to the fact that mulvaney way now be the point man because he has a better connection with the freedom caucus and others who say whoa, some of this is not ok with us. its another entitlement program. >> thats why you have mick mulvaney involved and at this level. he was a founding member of the house freedom caucus and has met regularly with members in congress ...

Republicans dont like the establishment republicans doing this, nobody likes it. republican or democrat, if a bill is completely created in secret and nobody gets to see if. elizabeth: what if they say listen, we just want to get it right. weve waited this long and we want every detail and looking for ways to compromise, we know you have a totally different proposal and they want to present it to the senate in a form that-- >> i think its worse than that though. i think that conservatives dont w...

Not accurate. and like i said, when committees write their bills and put their bills out there to mark up, everybody will see what they have done. spirit republican kentucky senator rand paul joined me now albert senator, good evening. >> thank you. >> he said this is just a start and its up to the committee, and you are not part of that committee. >> i think its actually more about substance than anything else. my concern is a little bit about transparency but a lot about substance. im annoyed ...

Every reeds office and christmas eve on 2009. this bill is being written by the committees that are in charge of health care, which is the regular order process. this bill will go through the committee process, go through the budget committee, then go to the floor congress under what we call "regular order." that is precisely the most transparent in the normal way of doing business, which is the opposite of what the democrats did when they crammed obamacare through. >> bret: here is not a libera...

This is a new entitlement program, and this is similar to subsidies. i would say its a democrat idea dressed up in republican clothing. they also have a new tax similar to the cadillac tax virtually identical to the cadillac tax in obamacare. i didnt sign up for your taxes. the third thing is they have an individual mandate in there, instead of you paying a penalty to the government if you dont buy insurance, you have to pay a penalty to the insurance company. this isnt a market situation, this ...

>> on your hunt for the plan yesterday, rone republican congressman had something to say about it. >> hes the master of theatrics, this is rand paul getting his name out there again, walked over with a bunch of cameras and trying to make a big scene. this is what he does. >> he says its a stunt. what do you say to him, senator? >> there are differences in our party. there are big government republicans who want a big federal program. >> big government republicans? those words dont go together ve...

Perfect music, but here is what the senator had to say. >> what makes you concerned that the fix is in on this? >> when we heard it was secret we wanted to see it more because if it is secret you do worry people are hiding things, we think theres a lot of obamacare like in their bill, a new entitlement program that will increase about 5% a year forever, a cadillac tax or something similar that was in obamacare, and individual mandate believe it or not instead of may -- paying it to the governmen...

Christmas eve on 2009. this bill is being written by the committees that are in charge of health care, which is the regular order process. this bill will go through the committee process, go through the budget committee, then go to the floor congress under what we call "regular order." that is precisely the most transparent in the normal way of doing business, which is the opposite of what the democrats did when they crammed obamacare through. >> bret: here is not a liberal democrat, a republica...

>> he deskribed the repeal of happy thought was the phase we played of him playing. are you for any bill a, more expensive, b, has let access for people and less opportunity? >> im looking forward to seeing the final product. its hard to imagine that republicans with control of our government and having the opportunity to move forward that were going to launch a new entitlement program or launch a new tax, thats where vast majority get their health insurance -- >> what about those who have gotte...