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Senate. weve already had one here. with these modifications, modifications in the senate, well be able to address that. good point. >> mark halperin? >> congressman, weve been through this before. i know you think the system will be better but who are the losers in your district? who are the people that will be worse off than they are today if this were the law of the land? >> 74% of the people i served when the first bill came out that would have been worse off. based on the bill we have today,...

Winners. there are a lot of losers. >> heres a chart put out by the center for american progre, a progressive think tank. it shows how much more a year some with certai pre-conditions, existing conditions, might have to pay compared to a healthy 40-year-old person. for example, someone with metastatic cancer would pay more than $140,000 a year. some with depression would pay an extra $8,500. someone with asthma would pay more than $4,000 more. i think diabetes is about $5,000, which matters to m...

Functioning insurance market for everyone else. >> so -- so do they remain in that pool their entire lives? say figure you have a preexisting condition, then you cant get insurance? you remain in this special pool? >> you would remain in this high risk pool for your life. weve had that before and its massively more expensive and the governments say we cant afford to do that and -- >> hold on, don. let me make the alternative argument that when you put everybody in the insurance pool, we all know...

Conditions are covered in the bill. they always have been. we talked about that before. states have the right to receive a waiver. if someone has continuous coverage thats never gonna be an issue. regardless of no circumstance. if someone chose not to have coverage for 63 days or more and they were in a state that opted out and they had a preexisting condition and they were put into a high risk pool, then we validated an additional $8 billion to help lower costs. so for someone to know how many ...

You described the vote count. kelly odonnell described that two member whos were previously as of yesterday, a no to. republican members. brought down the white house. came away with $8 million for more individuals with pre-existing conditions to throw into that high risk pool. they changed their minds, publicly declared in the driveway that they would go along with it. still unclear how many votes they have. i am standing on the first floor of the capitol. an area known as the row of columns. m...

President think that there was sufficient protection for those individuals with preexisting health conditions yesterday, but today he now believes $8 billion will cover it? what persuaded him that the number that he had embraced yesterday was not sufficient and that $8 billion is gonna do it? >> so, in this particular case, congressman upton and i think congressman long addressed it, that he through a series of conversations he had with the president, shared a concern they had and their shared g...

For decades. even if they got a waiver from obamacare, it wouldnt affect anybody with pre-existing conditions. its a weird poll testing complaint of convenience rather than dealing with the actual issues about getting more people insured. >> bret: here is raul labrador on that issue. >> you in the media have been reporting that were not taking care of people with pre-existing conditions, and thats not absolutely -- thats absolutely false. our bill creates whats called an invincible risk pool whe...

What we do know is that fred upton another surprised no, billy long of missouri, a long-time trump supporter and supporter of repeal of the affordable care act, he, too, suddenly said he was going to vote against the republican effort. lo and behold, they are both called to the white house for a face to face meeting with president trump. they emerged saying they have changed their minds, they are going to vote in support of the republican effort. why? because of a proposal put forward by fred up...

Impossible. right now preexisting conditions are covered in the bill. they always have been. weve talked about that before. states have the right to receive a waiver. if someone has continuous coverage, thats never going to be an issue regardless of any circumstance. they would never have a problem if preexisting conditions. if someone chose not to have coverage for 60 days or more, and they were in a state that opted out, and they had a preexisting condition, and they were put in a high risk po...

Alone, they are saying that one out of two americans, the centers for medicaid and medicare, one out of two has preexisting conditions. 50% of us that have job provided health insurance also have preexisting conditions. we might be in a high risk pool. >> the 55 to 64 is important because its before you hit medicare. >> they have a condition that might put them in a pool. >> we are going to have a conversation with congressman scott taylor from virginia. good to see you and thank you for being w...