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Prices going up, deductibles going up. people cannot afford -- if they can afford the premiums, they cant afford the deductibles. in my county in the fourth district of ohio no plans are offered in the exchange right now. cbo first told us there would be 21 million people on obamacare today. there are 9. >> okay. so -- so you dont like -- >> 10, 14, 16, about this issue. >> donald trump yesterday, at 3:00, lied and went out there and said under this plan the premiums will go down. you know that ...

A month later on april 25th, the mcarthur amendment is added to the bill allowing states to opt out of many of the requirements, including the essential health benefits that were central to every single policy under obamacare. the amendment helped woe the hardliners who opposed the bill. it ultimately passed the house on may 4th and everybody went to the white house to celebrate. thats what youre looking at right there. celebrating at the white house rose garden. that was just the house. lets tu...

Before voteing? >> well, look, i think thats always a good thing to. we have the score prior and knew the tweaks would improve as they did by it appears a million or so and knew it would have an impact on budget savings but we did have a score on the bill until the last kind of what they call the mcarthur amendment was added. we can see the impact of that and now the senate has all the information in front of them. they are going through their own process. its in their own end and its how the bi...

Yumts f premiums for the year could go up to $25,000. they are not on board with this. one of your objections today do with cost for seniors. how do you scare that? >> again, if you look at the safe guards put in there with the mcarthur amendment, preskgsipreskg preexisting conditions were locked in. they couldnt go up further than what the law would allow. >> if theres no lapse. >> if theres no lapse. >> if there is no lapse in coverage. but 30 million people could go into that lapse of 63 days...

I surprised myself. pete: no kidding. you caught them both that was impressive. steve: it was fantastic. ainsley: i love you brought that up. you are amazing. you are a great athlete. you are wonderful. jackie: couldnt have done it without a good toss from both of you. ainsley: thats what it was. steve: all right, jacque. ainsley: many g.o.p. lawmakers credit last minute changes like the mcarthur amendment as the reason they voted yes on healthcare reform. tom mcarthur joins us with the personal...

We will check in with you and the crew in dubuque in a little bit. brine brian president obama invited four democrats over to the white house because he wanted their votes. you had congressman long and congressman upton. he said i need your votes. what do you need? and the president started wheeling and dealing and next thing you know kevin mccarthy is confirming it looks like the vote will got republicans way today. ainsley: we heard whats his name, the talk show host talking about his son. bra...

Could change and you still have a very, very difficult conference in the senate just amongst falcons trying to figure out the path forward. not only do you have to worry about the senate, then you have to worry about the house having to come back and vote on whatever the snetd does. it gets more complicated going forward, really. one step in a multi-step process thats going to undo the things that americans fought so hard on. >> thanks, phil mattingly. the central aspect of the mcarthur amendmen...

Visits of members up to the white house, meeting with president trump in the west wing. they are desperately in need and desire this victory. this legislative victory. it can demonstrate to their constituents when they go home after today for another week-long recess. were into procedural votes here in the house floor. there are three measures theyll be coat voeting on today. first o all, fred upton, the member from michigan who got the $8 billion t help pay for those with pre-existing condition...

Healthy people. let me just ask you because you supported the first version, this bill that did not allow for waivers for states on the issue. >> i do want to mention one thing, though. under the aca, there are folks out there that they are not -- they refuse to buy the coverage because it is too expensive for them. but when they get sick, they buy it and one of them is getting an operation and then hes going to not pay for it. so we have to fix those things. we have to encourage people to be re...

Money you have, i said this could be the crushing blow to the efforts that are going on in the house to overturn the affordable care act. the big issue is pre-existing conditions, which cuts across lines of race, party, class, geography. everyone in america knows someone, if not in their family than a neighbors family that has gone through these horrible, horrible experiencing with pre-existing conditions before the affordable care act took hold and gave people coverage that they needed. and, so...