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Leave no room behind with xfi pods. simple. easy. awesome. click or visit a retail store today. welcome back. during the 2014 midterm elections, republican candidates ralied around a promise to repeal and replace obamacare. this time around they are vowing to protect one of the key provisions. guaranteeing coverage for people with pre-existing conditions. >> im josh hawley. i support forcing insurance companies to cover all pre-existing conditions. >> taking on both parties and fighting for th...

To protect one of the key provisions. guaranteeing coverage for people with pre-existing conditions. >> im josh hawley. i support forcing insurance companies to cover all pre-existing conditions. >> taking on both parties and fighting for those with pre-existing conditions. >> im fighting to protect pre-existing conditions and increase funding for nevadans who need it most. >> kevin cramer voted for guaranteed coverage for pre-existing conditions. >> meanwhile, the trump justice department has r...

The congressional budget office releasing their report card, finding the bill could leave 23 million more americans uninsured, and reduce the deficit by $119 billion over the next decade. for some, their premiums could skyrocket. a 64-year-old making roughly $26,500 in some states could see their premiums climb nearly $12,000 or more. those concerns around the country, fueled by last-minute changes to the bill that would allow states to opt out of guaranteeing coverage for basic health services,...

Get waivers from the community rating, does that achieve your promise of protecting people with pre-existing conditions? >> if you have a big pool, think about exxon mobile which probably has about 50,000 em moi yees and they are all in this plan with their families and spouse and children. if 20 people get liver transplants or other expensive illnesses it doesnt matter. within that big 50,000 risk pool, the expense that is associated with a very expensive procedure is spread out among the many,...

>> i think the way you protect that is, first and foremost you make it very clear. as we did in the first bill, but with the amendments that have taken place, in the last several weeks, and come forward, it is even better still, that were basically borrowing an idea from the state of maine that has seen a significant drop in premiums for people on their health insurance because you take people that have pre-existing and costly conditions and put them into a high-risk pool and you subsidize that ...

>> besides protecting them, are you going to be able to prevent their premiums from skyrocketing? thats the concern. if you isolate them into risk pools that the inevitable impact is the rise in premiums. how do you protect that? >> i think the way you protect that is, first and foremost you make it very clear. as we did in the first bill, but with the amendments that have taken place, in the last several weeks, and come forward, it is even better still, that were basically borrowing an idea fro...

Rise of insurance premiu, how do you protect that? >> first of all, you make it very clear like we d in the first bill, but with the amendments that have taken place in the last several weeks and come forward, its even better still. were basically borrowing an idea from the state of maine that has seen a significant drop in premiums for people on their health insurance because you take people that have preexisting and costly conditions and put them into a high-risk pool, and you subsidize that s...

To give governors like my friend john kasich all accessibility to improve medicaid to its citizens. but were also keeping our promise to people that have preexisting conditions. >> besides protecting, are you going to be able to keep their premiums from skyrocketing? thats the concern. if you isolate them with the rise of insurance premiu, how do you protect that? >> first of all, you make it very clear like we d in the first bill, but with the amendments that have taken place in the last severa...

It doesnt feel like insurance anymore. go to our website and take a look at our plan. let me give you a few ideas. we believe that state high risk pools are a smarter way of guaranteeing coverage for people with preexisting conditions. we had a good one in wisconsin. utah had a great one. we had a congresswoman from washington saying how good their state high risk pool is. what i mean is about 8% of all the people under 65 have that kind of preexisting condition. my mother-in-law had cancer, mel...

This is a nightmare, its going to fall off the tracks and crash. >> julie, im looking at this and thinking, you know, you didnt have to be a rocket scientist, or for that matter, figured early on the guaranteeing coverage of preexisting conditions of having kids on your policy until theyre 80 or something like that was going to result in higher premiums. so why this shock at this response? >> well, first and foremost, look at the statistics, premiums have actually been going up at the slowest ra...