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Reimbursement crisis. >> they are talking about finding people to purchase insurance. >> they need to make sure these risk pools are tampered by throwing millions if not hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants -- not necessarily paying this stuff and california right now, a tentative budget surplus but is all conditional, the economy is staying strong. heather: congress doing pretty good under donald trump, gavin newsom in part can thank donald trump for what he wants to do. >> it is true. w...

>> you think him responding to you by moving to the right has actually made him more competitive now? >> if president trump is more well liked in nevada from what youve seen in the polls and most of the other states, all the other states beside the real red states. he lost the state by 2%. romney lost by 7, mccain 12. he actually overperformed in this state. he has a plus 2 approval rating in my district. furthermore, if you dont support president trumps poll, is youre not going to get the trump...

Republican wave year. and now hes finding that the sort of national mood working against him, hes been tacking back pretty hard to the center from being a very proud conservative for a while. he -- he, you know, hes been trying to put more money back into education funding after cutting it for a number of years. he had a video this week saying he wants to protect pre-existing condition coverage for insurance after spending many years talking about repealing baobam obamaca obamacare, possibly rep...

Cancer patients, when they get a cancer diagnose, they found out they were not covered for things they thought they were going to be covered for. >> reporter: critics say it could divide risk pools, with younger people opting for short-term plans, while driving up premiums on obamacare plans, because they have older, sicker patients. >> the better solution would be to have everybody in the same insurance pool. >> reporter: now, the trump administration predicts about 200,000 americans will switc...

Be covered for. thats the problem. >> reporter: critics fear the alternative plans could divide insurance risk pools. with younger healthier people opting for short-term coverage, while driving up premiums on obamacare plans because they have older, sicker patients. >> the better solution would be to have everybody in the same insurance pool. >> nbcs anne thompson joining us now. anne, that was the whole theory behind the obamacare, the american health insurance plan, to have the larger insuranc...

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...

Create multiple risk pools, splitting up healthy individuals into one pool with lower premiums and putting those with conditions into a pool with hire rates. an aide to senator rand paul who wants dramatic changes to the bill confirming to cnn the most recent changes dont change his entrenched no vote. >> appeal -- >> reporter: for democrats, an eye on the clock and the policy with lines forming outside the hearing on the bill more than seven hours before it gavelled in monday, and senators maki...

It actually does a better job in guaranteeing. it just says you have to cover it. it doesnt say, you know, it limbs how much you can charge and things like that. what happens is because so many people are dropping out of obamacare and youre seeing coverages are going down, the new cbo reports are showing fewer and fewer people. premiums going up and up. this is because you dont have affordable insurance. so someone has to have coverage but theres no guarantee. in our bill the state has to provid...

Meaning everybodys premiums go up and the system gets turned over. thats the problem with graham-cassidy. >> harris: if thats the case, why were democrats against the risk pools? i hear you using almost the same terminology. guy? >> well, i would just respond -- first of all, hospital and er visits went up under obamacare. we were told theyd go down. the opposite was true. its been another dishonest or inaccurate sales job of obamacare. where do you get the 70 million number? the number on the e...

The local states, giving them the sufficient flexibility that we can by having a larger pool really control costs. and i want to say also that transparency kind of is woven in this, more devices and more ways that people can really see what procedures, what medical, you know, influences, what they are going to cost, not influences, but medical procedures or any kind of a surgery or anything, know ahead of time what its going to cost. >> because it does vary as you start comparing things. governo...