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Some have pointed out will actually buy those products and leave the sicker people to pay much higher premiums in the existing risk pool. so it does segment the risk pool and will leave people with brie sk pre-skising condition in the. higher cost pool and they wont ultimately be able to afford their coverage. so that is the impact on the swrid m individual market. >> what more could the president do via executive order to obamacare as it is commonly known without congress help? >> well, weve al...

Can get a waiver just like, by the way, they can under obamacare -- >> its a different risk pool. >> allow me to finish. under obamacare theres a waiver process in obamacare that allows people to get waivers. no state has done it. you can get waivers under obamacare. we provide -- >> rick, just to be clear, is your answer yes to that question, yes they can under write it the way they want and charge people with pre-existing conditions what they want, is the answer yes? >> the state has to get a ...

Significant bump-up for medicaid, up to 25% because it is defined as a low poverty state. it would get carve-outs because it is a low density state. including is automatic enrollment from any alaskan native who has benefited from the alaska program into the medicaid program. these are changes that almost entirely involve alaska alone and the type of things that lisa murkowski has been very concerned about. the cost of care up there is extraordinarily high, the size of the state and the populatio...

Louisiana could take these billions of dollars and establish a high-risk pool. its a fact, which my governor knows, by the way, that 10% of the american people spend 67% of the health care dollars. 50% spend about -- no, 5% spend 50%. >> right. >> that ought to be the target. so you could take the money and set up a high risk pool for those folks and it would lower the premiums on the people who are not in the high-risk pool. thats just one option. all these studies that are coming out, unless t...

Inventive. we can look at the states and what they have done, some of which were squashed by obamacare. in maine their invisible high risk pool which obamacare put out of business is now seen as the policy to go forward. in indiana where they prefunded health savings accounts to lower income hoosiers to be empowered to purchase their own services they found cost went down and outcomes improved. we give it to the states. ill finish how i started. im a doctor for 25 years caring for thoesz who did...

The dollars to the state for the state to be inventive. we can look at the things states have done over the last ten years, some of which were squashed by obamacare. in maine their invisible high risk pool, which obamacare put out of business, lowered premiums by 20%, is now seen as the policy to go forward. in indiana where they prefunded health savings accounts to lower income hoosiers could be empowered to purchase their own services, they found that costs went down and outcomes improved. we ...

Socialized medicine is, yes, everybody gets coverage, but everybody gets a pretty poor level of coverage and you dont get the kind of innovation that you need. the u.s. is the, by far and away the leader in medical technology from biotech down because of our free system. david: and bruce, its weird how democrats have gone socialist and even a liberal commentator said that democrats have become socialists, what do you think? >> i dont know if its so much for socialist that theyre running for pres...

Do you agree they shouldnt vote on anything -- >> i dont think functionally that should do that because we have a lot of deadlines coming up. i do share nicks sentiment. we cant take nothing for an answer and we cannot allow the status quo in healthcare. healthcare costs are sky rocking k people are losing choices. the bill that we pass in the house is to lower premiums and give people more closures. t way i think that matters the most is we believe risk pools are effective. we had a high risk p...

Shouldnt vote on anything until they figure out the repeal and replace for obamacare. do you agree with that? obviously there is the whole debt ceiling issue coming up, cut bullet do c but do you believe -- >> there are deadlines coming up on us. you mentioned s chip. i do share micks sentiment, which is we cant take nothing for an answer and cannot allow the status quo on health care. health care costs are skyrocketing. people are losing choices. the bill we passed in the house, the whole promi...

Dont go broke paying for that health care. and by having direct care in subsidies like we had in our risk pool in wisconsin, four people with catastrophic illnesses, you dramatically lower the price of insurance for ef everybody else. 10% of the people in the wisconsin risk pool, 10% of the people were in the risk pool in wisconsin, the other 90% of wisconsinites had chaeaper, muc more affordable health care. thats what were proposing to do. funds for catastrophic illnesses so those people get s...