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Moment. welcome back. >> its 30 minutes past the hour and this morning after a series of false starts the gop could be on the cusp of a big win on health care. the house is set to vote today on a bill to repeal and replace obamacare and the republican leadership says they do at least have the votes to pass it. momentum shifted when two influential moderates that had been no votes clicked into the yes column after meeting with the president and getting newcomb mittments on coverage with people wi...

In boss period on the. good story. >> badly in need of a legislative win. president trump, he could get it today. the bill to repeal and replace obamacare is headed to the house floor. can last minute changes get it over the hump? thats next. features egos arc lithium the #battery technology.mower, it delivers the cutting-torque of gas. and the self-propelled model makes mowing effortless. the ego power+ mower. exclusively at the home depot and ego authorized dealers. iwithout writing a single w...

Once the political calculation for the moderate republicans that are undecided that hold the weight of this white house on this vote. >> theres part of them that want to help the gop deliver the white house major victory and republicans could start saying theyre legislating. on the other hand without information, without knowing exactly what this is going to do and with 12 step explanations to the basic argument that pre-existing problems are going to lose their coverage theyre nervous and think...

Conditions so in theory theyre designed to help avoid coverage but critics say that the new funding isnt going to go far enough. especially if many states wind up applying for the waivers. giving you an example here. the kaiser family foundation estimates an adequate high risk pool would cost $25 billion per year and that $8 billion would cover only a few hundred thousand people. 35 states ran them before obamacare and republicans defend them as a way to cover this separately and lower premiums ...

State you see them pull out of the counsel and leaving with no coverage but i think thats what spicer is talking about that it leaves little access to care and you have all of these people and then you have that wait so if you have a chronic condition youre waiting to go to the doctor. >> we dont know that. we know there were prior to obamacare but we also dont know thats why this will increase options on the marketplace. well try to get to the bottom of it in the next hour. >> pumping $8 billio...

The hump. the hump that has been the inability to pass the thing campaigned on year after year after year campaign cycle after campaign cycle. repealing and replacing obamacare. we have seen multiple failures over the last two months. today there will be a vote on the repeal and replace plan. that comes in the form of an amendment targeted at trying to assuage the major concerns that held up this latest version of the proposal up to this point. that is price protections related to those with pre...

Dollars to a fund to try to help finance any premium increases that those individuals might see. now that in and of itself being enough to get members to the requiz sit 2016 votes they need. its a bit of a surprise but there was a full-court press from president trump, vice president pence, house leaders going member by member. the undecideds, the noes to try to get them to a place where they can actually finally pass this bill. they say theyre there. im told they are right on a razors edge. the...

Of obamacare marketplaces. just yesterday they announced theyre with drawing from virginia saying its on track to lose $200 million this year alone and the biggest remaining insurer in iowa says it also may leave the program leaving most counts in iowa without a single insurance option on balm care in 2018. >> despite what gop lawmakers claim, experts say pumping $8 billion into high risk pools wont match obamacares protections from pre-existing conditions. so states opt out of the requirement t...

Iowa says it also may leave the program leaving most counties in that state without a single insurer on obamacare in 2018. the stakes are huge. lets bring in the professor of history and public affairs at princeton. good morning to you sir. >> good morning. >> thanks for having me. >> the stakes are enormous for the entire country but for the trump administration we have so many questions about the changes made we dont know how many states will apply for a waiver. we dont know how many will be g...

Bill to repeal and replace obamacare and republican leadership says they do at last have the votes to pass it. >> momentum shifted when two influential moderates that had been no votes went into the yes column when meeting with the president and getting newcomb mittments on coverage with people with pre-existing conditions. >> we have seen this movie before but republican leaders have been saying since the first repeal effort collapse that they would not bring health care to the floor unless it ...