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People with catastrophic illnesses you lower the prices for everybody else. 10% of the people in wisconsin risk pool -- 10% of the people wisconsin, the orr people in the individual market had much cheaper healthcare, more choices and lower premiums. thats what were proposing to do. have funds for the catastrophic people with illnesses. if we say well directly support those, 8 to 10% of more than americans what had a catastrophic illnesses -- we got the best quarterer back in america selling us ...

Back to health care for a minute. debbie stabenow has introduced a bill that was aus ensibly to take the highest risk pool in the private market and put it into the medicare market making it the lowest risk pool in the medicare market as a way to get pressures off premiums. could you support something like that? >> well, i havent seen the senators bill, to be fair, but part of me is skeptical about anything that expands medicare right now, simply because the system is going broke. we although to...

Were trying to fix. we obviously know that the insurance markets have trouble and that we have a skewed system where younger people, healthier people pay a great deal for health insurance because theyre in the same risk pool with older people with more chronic conditions. thats a problem i think we all can recognize and fix together. if we start from the starting point of whats the problem. the health care bill got off on the wrong foot because the problem they were trying to fix was a political...

To make these payments. they have been making them on a month-to-month basis, but their continued threats to pull the plug on these payments is what insurance companies are telling us is going to lead to a big rise in their premiums. that along with the fact the trump administration has threatened not to enforce the individual mandate, what i call the social responsibility provision, the idea that everybody needs to be in the insurance pool. those two things are within the control of the adminis...

Point, lets make sure we fund the subsidies. lets make sure we mandate that folks stay in the market place so the risk pool is a risk pool thats workable. >> dan hilferty, thank you, i appreciate it. >> thank you, michael. >> i know theres a lot of feedback on twitter and my facebook page. lets see what we got. smerconish, lets ask ourselves if a tax hike to pay for single payer health care would be more than our current insurance premiums. i sure hope that people were paying attention to what h...

Increases our rates by 19% to 20%. that is a significant increase. and we have to ask ourselves, is that something that we would like to put in front of the individual market? >> right. and you will be then, further perceived, the insurance companies as the villains of all of this. what i hear you say, you correct me if im wrong, if people arent forced to have health insurance, youre going to be in the untenable position to having to provide coverage for folks with pre-existing conditions, but y...

Me if im wrong, if people arent forced to have health insurance, youre going to be in the untenable position to having provide coverage for folks with preexisting conditionins, but y wont have the young inconvinceablies to offset the costs. the rates goring toe go sky high because there is no individual mandate? >> that is correct. what were saying now is, look, weve got to come together now. it is time for a bipartisanship approach to this. lets fund the csrs, the subsidies so the risk pool is ...

These are two fine servants in bob casey and pat toomer. from the republican respect as well, pat toomey wants it to be sustainable. we have to get a meeting of the minds. i believe the same thing for leader mcconnell, leader schumer. get the people in the house committee, senator amill alexander beginning to have conversations about how the marketplace can go forward. how we can insure more people and in the interim to your point, lets make sure we fund the subsidies. lets make sure we mandate ...

Slightly better outcomes. when did this become a liberal versus a conservative thing, because if im a conservative and want government to spend less, i would look at some of the other conservative policies. why did this become a political conservative thing? >> i think there were just not enough single payers, listen, the two senators you had on tonight talked about the cost of prescription drugs. they didnt offer, and i say it respectfully, a real plan. ali you know what happened, obamacare inj...

Keep the medicaid in place for those who need financial assistance and you have stabilized and driven down cost for the medium low pool. they recognize there is a high risk pool that does need extended coverage and there is a financial challenge, financially challenged pool that does need federal assistance. >> donald trump tweeted as was expected. three republicans and 48 democrats have let the country down. he said also, i said from the beginning, let obamacare implode, then deal. watch. tell ...