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They now have liver failure, or heart pail lur failure or a card they need more. if you make sure that folks have coverage that is adequate and president very much supported that concept, as has mick mulvaney, then i think we come up with a product, that product will look like cassidy-collins, i have thought about it for 8 years, being a physician working in hospitals for uninsured, taking care of folks, i kind of get it, you give power back to the patient. maria: how does the cassidy-collins ac...

The individual mandate, which is meant as a mechanism under the affordable care act to attract healthy people into the risk pool. and it doesnt really replace it with any other mechanism. so i think to me those are the three fundamental issues that need to get addressed. >> so in your position as an insurance provider here, paul, are you basically saying in a market system that is less regulated, you or your competitors might end up charging sick people more, but you dont think it has to be that...

Strong, the cost of few is spread out over many, looking at a fortune 500 company that is how howl oall of them manage thr illness, our plan expands those of insured, by allowing states to enroll folks who are eligible, unless they dont to be enrolled. you do that, you get a bigger risk pool. this is younger and healthier and cost of few is spread amongs many, our is more sound. ours has been proven by experience with every fortune 500 company that manages its open healthcare. maria: you have be...

The high risk pools, are they going to help people with pre existing conditions? >> they could. they called also be a problem. if you do have a lapse in insurance and you have a pre-existing condition, thats when you go into your state high risk pool. its there for you, again, they can charge you whatever they want for a year. theres no germany tees about what they will charge you and there is no guarantees about what they will cover. they might not cover certain things. so critics are saying, w...

In terms of who might actually control the house of representatives two years from now? >> actually, david was the first person i called. i could hardly believe it when he told me two dozen -- he was working on the numbers at that time, seats he would be shifting the ratings on these seats. david wasserman is the dean of house ratings. but, yes. and i think thats because its not too hard to tell when you look at a plan that has 17% approval rating and you make only minor adjustments to that, thr...

>> we have 440,000 people covered by expanded medicaid alone. all of them would be in jeopardy because the bill that the republicans passed through the house cuts medicaid funding by 20%. the only way to deal is cut people off the rolls completely or reducing the benefits they get. a lot of people in the commonwealth of kentucky will be jeopardized by that provision alone. you talk about the additional implementation of things like the high risk pool. one estimate from the keyser foundation in k...

People who arent covered, and ensuring that peoples benefit packages are not leaving them still facing higher costs. youve got the start elsewhere. >> and paul, that goes to the practical piece of this. its not to say that obamacare is perfect, to point out this bill doesnt address coverage in a rational way around the country. go ahead, paul. >> thing is really three fundamental issues with the current bill. the first is the precipitous drop in funding in both medicaid and for individuals, whic...

Im very happy about them. the latest inventions. do you know what they cost? do you know what cancer treatments cost? $100,000 a year. if everybody is paying the same price to cover that premiums are going to go through the roof. so the new bill, with a waiver, creates an option that you could fund a high risk pool which somebody could go to. if they were in a gap they could go there and pay a higher premium which, by the way, the government could supplement. >> eric: let me bring byron in. i wa...

Im very happy about them. the latest inventions. do you know what they cost? do you know what cancer treatments cost? $100,000 a year. if everybody is paying the same price to cover that premiums are going to go through the roof. so the new bill, with a waiver, creates an option that you could fund a high risk pool which somebody could go to. if they were in a gap they could go there and pay a higher premium which, by the way, the government could supplement. >> eric: let me bring byron in. i wa...

Me because i traveled around the country and talked to a lot of the folks who have been impacted by obamacare. it has been devastating. many democrats as well saying this bill needs to change. do you disagree with that? do you think no changes need to happen here? >> i think there are tweaks that need to be made to obamacare. for example, the high risk pool didnt work. so republicans wants to invest in a high risk pool. thats their solution. instead we need to look at how to stabilize the market...