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Vote or go down the defeat. what happens then? >> well, i think you know, there is some talk about that maine has a high risk pool and weve adopted it. there is something that concerns me a little bit that the republicans should take a hard look at, and that is, high risk pool, it is very important. it worked in maine. we lowered premiums by 69% in the individual market. but one thing that i dont think is important to the bill, and important that republicans stay on is this whole idea that preex...

Decisions. >> neil: the rare time we see a compromise, keeping the government lights on through the end of the fiscal year, they pounce on that and get into sort of a partisan pickering back and forth. >> it is a shame, that the republicans got rolled. the truth of the matter, is the republicans compromised. >> neil: both sides compromised. lee carter, thank you very much. on this health care, that lee was alluding to here, there is a push, and vice-president pence is leading it. theyre harkin...

Can sort this through this preexisting stuff, i talked to mike kelly of pennsylvania who wasnt entirely sure whether preexisting conditions would be covered by all the states. so that got some alarms. let me ask about that. if for some reason, whether it is a preexisting thing or the high risk pool or trying to, you know, imitate what youre doing and they fail, republicans really cant have another botched attempt at this. can they? >> well, you know, no. i think the first time around, they shoul...

Preexisting condition, and they go and in the back room and get their insurance and go on. the insurance company -- >> neil: do they pay more for that, governor? >> no, thats the point. they just registered into the high risk pool. everything is done in the back office. they get their insurance, they move on. the same insurance that all of us get. and then the insurance company and the government say we have a high risk pool, government, you are going to pay extra here. no one knows who is in th...

Alternative, are the answer. what exactly are they, and how would they affect coverage? >> they divide people into two different groups. one group is healthy so their health care premiums could be lower. a second pool are people with health conditions. anything from cancer all the way down to allergies or high blood pressure. theyll cost the system more so theyre put into the high risk pool. the issue, as you saw in the graphic, this is a lot of people in this country who would be covered under ...

Some people think see premiums go way up. the president is not saying that. >> jonathan gruber one thing stephen moore said. you could reduce premiums for everyone else, people with preexisting conditions. if your goal is to reduce premiums thats a way to do it. >> sure the term high risk pool invokes people splashing around having fun. if we called it a high risk internment camp that would not have the same kind of invocation. you can take the sick people out and not cover them and that will lo...

Obamacares provision when it comes to those with preexisting conditions. is that true. >> if youre talking about recreating high risk pools at the state level, what is missing from that e equation, from it that discussion is massive amounts of suns dsubsidy that comes from the federal government to make those pools even vaguely affordable to end up in that. to take the example that was being discussed at the press conference, somebody could have a bill as high as 25,000 in insurance premiums you...

Premiums, stabilized the market, stabilize premiums. the bottom line is to give the states flexibility to get that premium down. >> if people would continue to get access, but not at the same price. >> the idea is they would create a high risk pool. the idea is to create a system where it gets the premium down for them as well. >> it could still charge them much more. >> youre right when i say the whole goal of this is to give the states the flexibility to get lower premiums. thats the goal all ...

That get the waiver, coupled with what else we have done in the bill on the high risk pool, i believe premiums will come down for middle class families. that is the test. make sure you provide the coverage for those tough health care needs for families. also allowing states to get the waiver so premiums and deductibles can couple dome dow. we can bring back a market to the health care. >> without compromising the coverage. >> i believe so. >> congress member, more details we get, the more we dis...

But would that be something that might be enough of a draw for kim jong-un to do it? maybe so. >> all right. let get back to health care. a subject youve been devoting a lot of your time to. youve seen the house bill. i assume youve seen this revised house bill. is there a hard guarantee for coverage for pre-existing conditions? >> so if you take that they will have a high risk pool and that in the high risk pool you would take care of those with pre-existing conditions, i suspect the advocates ...