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Get waivers from the community rating, does that achieve your promise of protecting people with pre-existing conditions? >> if you have a big pool, think about exxon mobile which probably has about 50,000 em moi yees and they are all in this plan with their families and spouse and children. if 20 people get liver transplants or other expensive illnesses it doesnt matter. within that big 50,000 risk pool, the expense that is associated with a very expensive procedure is spread out among the many,...

Gathering information. i think our states are looking forward to the opportunity. i had a phone call yesterday from a state legislator who said you know, weve waited a long time to see medicaid block granted back to the states. >> can you flpledge, though, ca you say to people who are worried who have pre-existing conditions, can you say to them that they do not need to worry about their premiums rising? can you pledge that will not happen? >> i think that individuals are going to be very please...

Are totally ignoring what the process is going to be. the process is that moving forward the senate will write its own bill and attempt to address those concerns you have laid out, that president trump laid out in the campaign. susan collins and four other co-sponsors came up with the patient freedom act. we take care of people with pre-existing conditions. we do it by expanding the risk pool so that those who are sicker, if you will, are in a pool of those who are younger and healthier. it work...

In 2011, 35 states used some variation of this high risk pool method. for my audience, throws the states on yellow states with high risk pools kons sfwoogs 2%. nongroup is if youre not part of a company or youre not part of a group policy. an individual policy. in florida it was much lower. >> is there any reason why, if states elect to take this waiver, they dont to have cover everybody with pre-existing conditions, that the numbers would be better now than in 2011 or before that? >> i cant ima...

Andrew reuben in my last segment. heres a plan who can help me get into it a little more. charlie crist from florida. he was a governor in florida that did have a high risk pool. youre coming at this from a unique position. your state used high risk pools. in 2011, 0.02% of floridians not enrolled in a group market like i am because i work for somebody were part of a high risk pool. that seems like a very low number. >> i think it is a low number because who wantso be in a high risk pool? what w...

People ahead of you in the line. >> on the question of pre-existing conditions, fred upton and others who were nos and moved over to yes said they changed their vote because adding money to the high risk pool would take care of people with pre-existing conditions. the $8 billion. weve seen high risk pools before, before obamacare, they were around in 35 states. do you believe that money added to the high risk pools is enough to cover are people with pre-existing conditions? >> not even close. $8...

Million for high risk pools coming in at the last minute as a savior. what youre seeing here is republicans led by paul ryan saying we have two great options. one is we again failed to even bring it to a vote. this is the thing we ran on for seven years that we promised our base we would do. on the other hand you have we bring it to a vote as dana makes a point, the senate is problematic. the cbo score is problematic. donald trump is problematic because hes super inpredi unpredictable. but sayin...

Obamacare and health policy. do we know what types of pre-existing conditions would qualify someone for the pools. >> the pricey ones, cancers, heart disease, diabetes, but there are also conditions you might not think of. in maryland one state accepted a kid with acne. >> what would happen next for these people? >> well, that remains to be seen. it will depend on whether they live in a state opts to wave these protections. that waiver is actually going to be pretty easy to get. so its really go...

Planned to provide states to help lower the cost of the new bill. >> lets bring back the professor of history and public affairs at princeton university. good morning to you sir. >> good morning. >> increase $8 billion. not a lot of money when you consider health care in this country. here is how press secretary sean spicer defended what this means for this health care bill. >> if someone chose it and they had a pre-existing condition and put into a high risk pool then we allocated an additional...

Money to make it affordable for folk. >> i would say theyre wrong. i believe that markets will work. >> how do you know that? i mean, these are the people -- this is their job to do these numbers. >> congressman, the high pools existed before when there were these markets you were talking about there. when there are high risk pools, generally speaking they were more expensive for the people in them and they cost more for the various government entities than had been predicted. that was under the...