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Trade away the essential health care benefits like maternity care or health services. >> expanding the freedom, letting you the consumer choose what health care you want to purchase. thats the key to lower premiums. >> reporter: but they can only lose two votes, alienating moderates worrying it could drive up prices for sicker americans. lindsey graham is already talking about cracking a deal with democrats. >> theres an emerging new approach that i will talk to you in the next 24 to 48 hours. >...

Meetings, health care is dominant. now, this was intended to be about health care. what are you hearing from people, though? >> reporter: yeah, chris, the entire focus of this meeting here was health care. and what were hearing is why tim kaine could never in a million years vote for this bill. hes coming out here and talking to some moms mostly and their children who have just heartbreaking stories about their experience on medicaid or taking advantage of some of the provisions in the affordabl...

$7,000 deductible but it had full coverage. so everything that would typically be covered under an employer sponsored plan was covered in my plan. the thing that i really didnt expect to find was wellness benefits. so, in our plan, we had preventative care so the typical wellness care, screenings, my wifes mammography, et cetera was all covered at 100% in this plan. no lifetime maximum at all. the premium was about $450 a month. so, i expected to pay a lot more. i was pleased when i found this i...

And heres the kicker. the premium goes from $396 to $882 per month and here is becky somers. >> i have an excellent policy where im covered for everything with no lifetime maximum. i have every single coverage there is. and they are trying to tell me that i had a bad policy, and the insurance company was ripping me off, and i was too stupid to know better so now i have to, you know, go with what the government is giving for my, you know, for my own good. >> then she asked the insurance company i...