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Condition you paid way more money in health care premium costs. often times uninsurable. that went away. im unclear how youd propose to put it back if -- >> you had states already taking the lead on that. i believe it was vermont. >> there were actually -- florida had a high risk pool closed for 13 years to new entrants. they said well give you insurance but wont cover you for the thing you need it for. i did a story about a woman who had breast cancer and was a high risk pool. well take you but...

How do republicans defend this? >> well, very easily. we want to protect people with pre-existing conditions. we want to be able to protect children who are 26 years old to stay on there, but you dont need to create government-run health care to do that. >> if you strike all of this down in this lawsuit, where does that leave the american people? >> hopefully it will allow us to start over again and go back to the free market principles and put in the guidelines -- >> health care legislation is ...

Were trying to move toward a system that provides more options and choices for people that lowers the costs. and i personally - - >>chris: let me jump in because under repeal and replace, the bill you voted for, if someone had a lapse in coverage of 63 days. a lot of cases of pre-existing conditions, then want to buy it. if you had a lapse in coverage for 63 days, states could force those people, instead of buying it from an insurance company to buy it from a risk pool and that meant the premium...

Condition. shes uncovered right now under obamacare. were trying to move toward a system that provides more options and choices for people that lowers the costs. and i personally - - >>chris: let me jump in because under repeal and replace, the bill you voted for, if someone had a lapse in coverage of 63 days. a lot of cases of pre-existing conditions, then want to buy it. if you had a lapse in coverage for 63 days, states could force those people, instead of buying it from an insurance company ...

>> let me jump intr here. under repeal and replace, the bill that you voted for, if someone had a lapse in coverage of 63 days or people who dont have insurance on them want to buy it, if you have a lapse in coverage for 63 days, states could force those people to buy it from a risk pool instead of an insurance company and that means premiums will be higher. thats what obamacare tried to prevent. >> chris what we were trying to do is not have the federal government one-size-fits-all top-down app...

To take care of people that its very difficult to insure. then have low cost insurance for everyone else. >> the pools havent worked well and here is the problem process you leave it to the corporations to figure out how to protect the people with prekissing conditions they wont which is why. >> you can still is the regulation for high high risk pool. >> you could do that. >> but you price the people out final point and well go. >> congress has shone no interest in actedly funding high risk pool...

Thats a perverse law. and the regulations are driving it. what you want to do is have one way to handle it at least would be properly constructed, properly funded high risk pools to take care of people that its very difficult to insure. then have low cost insurance for everyone else. >> the pools havent worked well and here is the problem process you leave it to the corporations to figure out how to protect the people with preexist ing conditions they wont which is why. >> you can still is the r...

Through this system for the time being, right? >> and thats resize ll ll lres- thats precisely what i said at the coverages. absent reforms, it looks like what were doing is turning the he can change market into a high risk pool, but without the benefit of the planning and appropriate construct for a high risk pool. so it looks like the exchanges, about 11 million people who have gotten them, the costs have increased significantly and it looks like they look more like high risk pools. if thats w...

Health care compared to other wealthy countries around the world is that we do not have an adequately large and diverse risk pool for people who wish to buy insurance outside of their workplace. thats what the individual mandate was supposed to achieve, getting more and more people to buy insurance so that youve got young and healthy people along with the sick. taking the mandate out, do we not end up once again with a shrunken risk pool of older and sicker people whose health care costs more? >...

Julie, the failing of american health care compared to other wealthy countries around the world is that we do not have an adequately large and diverse risk pool for people who wish to buy insurance outside of their workplace. thats what the individual mandate was supposed to achieve, getting more and more people to buy insurance so that youve got young and healthy people along with the sick. taking the mandate out, do we not end up once again with a shrunken risk pool of older and sicker people ...