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Economic agenda. >> a key to that agenda is repealing obamacare. one bill already passed the house. now its the senates turn, which is where we start. after so much secrecy, republicans in the senate finally came out with their own draft to the health care bill to owned obamacare. heres what the bill changes. medicaid expansion to millions of lower income americans gets phased out. states have the flexibility to wave coverage of essential health benefits. thats the list of more than a dozen thin...

Bills on three key requirements? >> i think the bill is similar. they do a good job of cutting obamacare taxes. if you keep obamacare spending and stretch it out, you are going to have spending without the revenue to pay for it so that makes the debt worse. in the current republican bill as it stands, they repeal out of regulations. you have to have pregnancy coverage and dental and vision and all that. if you tell people you can wait until you are sick to buy insurance, thats what happens. you ...

Lawmakers are talk about this bill failing by a big margin because at the end of the day it isolated too many members of the republican party. >> thank you. dr. sanjay gupta joins us now. we are talking about the so-called essential health benefits, one of the parts involves maternity coverage? >> yeah, you have that whole list of things that mj just laid out the minimal coverage that people get with their health care, you have choices when you buy your health care but no matter what its worth l...

You have to have pregnancy coverage. 75 years old, have to have pregnancy coverage. what that did is added expense and added to the adverse selection that young people didnt want to buy it because of the expense. >> ed: you are a doctor, what is the prescription? you dont have a plan to replace it, tonight, you came with one. >> yeah. i think what we want to do, our goal is still the same. left or right, conservative, eople to we want more p have insurance and more affordable. affordable care ac...

Insurance company has to cover. whether you are married or not you have to have pregnancy coverage or whether you are even having kids anymore. 75 years old, have to have pregnancy coverage. that added expense and added to the selection that young people didnt want to buy because of the expense. >> ed: you are a doctor, what is the prescription? you dont have a plan to replace it, tonight, you came with white. >> our goal is the same. left or right, conservative, liberal, we want more people to ...

Insurance products but mainly we would allow sale of inexpensive insurance, obamacare made it illegal to sell inexpensive insurance, because everything had to have pregnancy coverage or 10 or 11 different mandates, we get rid of these mandates and let the market sell what consumers want, that would drive the prices down. when you pay for your care mostly all of healthy saving account, if 30% paid out of that they would call their doctor and ask how much manage would cost, and force transparency ...

Hes been fraught with unrealistic ideas. he did talk about the 10% tax rate across the board. well, low-income people dont pay federal income taxes, they pay other taxes. that would be a massive increase on low income people and a massive decrease on the wealthy. >> wasnt that $2,000, the fact to redistribute between family members. you can take from your wife or husband and take it into your account if you wanted to. did you hear about that? >> well, i think maybe the thinking behind that is di...

Going to be the panacea, a fix for everything. what were the danger signs this administration didnt pay attention to to? >> all new mandates. having to have pregnancy coverage for you. >> you never know? you know? who knows? so... >> well, you never know. >> i think i do. in this case, i think i do. >> it doesnt make sense, right? we all know that does not make sense. we have to have coverage we dont want or need, cant afford. so when you layout a program forcing everybody to have a one size fit...

Was not going to be the panacea, this fix for everything. whats were the danger signs from the beginning that this administration simply didnt pay attention to? >> all of the new mandates. we talked earlier about having to -- for you having to have pregnancy coverage for example. >> you never know, i mean, mary, who knows. >> well, you never know. >> i think i do. in this case i think i do. >> but, in this case, it doesnt make sense. we all intuitively know that does not make sense. yet, we all ...

Was not going to be the panacea, this fix for everything. what were the danger signs that the administration didnt pay attention to? >> mandates, talked about having to have pregnancy coverage for you. you never know. you know? who knows? so... >> well, you never know. >> i think i do. in this case, i think i do. >> it doesnt make sense, right? we know that that doesnt make sense, we all have to have coverage we dont want and cant afford. forcing everybody to have a one size fits all solution we...