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Talking about, the most recent issue happening, is the amendment, the meadows-mcarthur amendment. do you think that will be enough to get everything passed? >> yeah, you know, in addition to mark talking with tom, i think there was also dave swiek earth got together with gary palmer. that high risk pool, that extra piece that maybe is the reinsurance piece was critical also. the other thing, the essential health benefits. heather, there was so much that went into it. number one on my priority li...

This brings us closer to the final agreement that we all want to achieve. this idea was offered by two of our most conservative members, gary palmer and dave schweikert but embraced by a people representing all corners of our conference as you can see by a few of the members who are here today. i would let the authors speak more about it but let me just say briefly this amendment would create a new federal risk sharing program. it a high risk pool that will lower costs for people with preexistin...

Today before house members leave for their two-week recess. i am told by a white house official the goal is to add an amendment on high risk pool. that has to do with subs ziez -- subsidizing the severely ill in that category. it sounds like theyre hoping for a vote today. i am told house leaders will be meeting out west. it sounds like the white house is really trying to be able to say theyve made some action before the house leave force vesey. >> joe -- >> mark halperin has been very busy, go ...

Buy that insurance. >> congressman rooney, thank you very much. >> thanks for having me on. >> now turn to tim ryan of ohio who opposes the bill. thank you for staying late as well. your reaction to what you just heard from your colleague on the right? >> absolutely no evidence for what the congressman was saying. zero. defies what the cbo said, said premiums still go up dramatically, just maybe a little bit less and kicking off 24 million people and defies basic logic, taking healthy people out...

Republicans offer rather than saying that insurance rates are going down because theyre not. >> well, premiums went up about 60% on average for about everybody who has been notice individual market and for some much more than that. and the reason is they allow the risk pools to dump their sick people into this market and allow the city of detroit to dump 8,000 people into this market. >> let me stop you there. thats exactly the topic i want to get in. how do you do this without creating a bigger...

>> kavita, i think johns talking about things i talk about all the time, create a bigger market, the biggest risk pool you could get. how about everybody in the same market. every other oecd country has done this and rates are lower. >> this is just insurance 101. you create a larger risk pool and spread that risk across a much larger population, not just an individual market. remember, part of whats been delayed in obamacare has also been the employer mandate. so the idea is no get we were thin...

This up. >> and ali, let me let you hear sean spicer who was out there today guaranteeing there was no plan "b" and there was going to be a vote, only to be made a fool of yet again by the vote being pulled and the rug being pulled out from under him. this was sean spicer explaining the logic of getting rid of maternity care as a benefit under obamacare. >> older men, older women who had gone past maternity age were buying benefits that werent necessary for them. i think if youre an older man yo...

Ill grant you that. the reason is because we have a system that says the governments going to control, were going to mandate. we dont have a real market like we have in everything else in our country. >> all those other countries actually have full government-involvement in their health care systems. >> they have full government. we dont have gull government involvement. >> other side of the coin but we agree on the point. i get your point. were agreed on that. >> we have government that says yo...

Theyre really trying to talk this up. >> and ali, let me let you hear sean spicer who was out there today guaranteeing there was no plan "b" and there was going to be a vote, only to be made a fool of yet again by the vote being pulled and the rug being pulled out from under him. this was sean spicer explaining the logic of getting rid of maternity care as a benefit under obamacare. >> older men, older women who had gone past maternity age were buying benefits that wert neceary for them. i think...

Million people. and it defies logic because common sense will tell you if the risk pool are going to be full of older sicker people premiums are going to go through the roof. so i dont know what theyre talking about. i dont know what theyre basing their facts and figures on. this is a policy. this is a legislative bill in search of a political solution. they used this for seven years to bash democrats, bash obama. obamacare is the worst thing that ever happened in the world, and now theyre stuck...