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And that is that the inincentives meant that a lot of people paid the fine, paid the penalty didnt get the insurance. it created high risk pools. thats why for a lot of people the premiums went up. is there some logical fix to this the republicans can come up with? >> i mean the logical fix to this is really understanding that more and more people really need to find affordable insurance. so -- its what ive said before. its really activating and allowing for the states to more actively negotiate...

Up. what you have to do is figure out a way to get the market back involved in this and let families make some of these decisions as opposed to the government making them. because the government has had four years since 2013 -- >> how about a family with a pre-existing condition, how do they make the decision to in insure themselves when nub is co no one is compelled to insure them? >> there will be a need for risk pools because there are people that will run into problems beyond their ability t...

Little bit for the young person gets in a car wreck. for example, if we do it then the cruise amendment its a good one. >> chris: as it now stands, it is a nonstarter for you? >> i dont know the limit. if it turns out its two plants. >> chris: thats what hes described. >> thats okay, with two risk pools, then thats bad. >> chris: thats what hes described. >> no, he has not yet designated if you have a single risk pool or two. if it is a single risk pool, that works. if it is too, that is the oba...

Chris: as it now stands cruz is a nonstarter for you. >> i dont know the amendment. if it turns out its two plans -- chris: thats what he has described. >> thats okay. with two risk pools then thats bad >> thats what he described. >> he hasnt designated whether you have a single risk pool or two risk pools. if it is a single risk pool, that works. if it is two risk pools that is just obama care recreated. we need to do something different than that. chris: at least ten republican senators have n...

Gets in a car wreck. for example, if we do it then the cruise amendment its a good one. >> chris: as it now stands, it is a nonstarter for you? >> i dont know the limit. if it turns out its two plants. >> chris: thats what hes described. >> thats okay, with two risk pools, then thats bad. >> chris: thats what hes described. >> no, he has not yet designated if you have a single risk pool or two. if it is a single risk pool, that works. if it is too, that is the obama care re-created. we need to d...

Condition protects, as long as there was at least one plan in every state that did offer those obamacare protections. is that a safe option? >> no, it is not. what youre going to do is get very, very high risk pools which makes those premiums not affordable for the american public. thats why we need to do this together. and thats the -- thats the concept of the affordable care act, it is law, that allows all of us to join together so that someone who has a serious illness, women who will need ob...

Profitability, and dont have to be in this localities around the country where either there are higher risk pools or lower prov profits, one of the two, and health care stocks have been one of the best performers stins bill first came out, or before it came out on thursday morning. biotech, health care. >> that might be a tip. >> thats a tip. the stock tells you who benefits the most. >> 30 seconds here. what will happen oto the states? not many got into the aca exchanges and now its up to you. ...

Entitlement and exploding in cost and it is frankly very inefficient, we need to give the states more room to innovate. if we are going to help sick people. so this is a really big catastrophic debate, but the actual bill, i think they are tinkering around the edges on a lot of it. >> and john, penal are saying -- people r that are critical of this, is what is being removed is the financial death spiral and those unwell will stay in and those who are well will not and therefore you have a revenu...

Obamacare force people to buy insurance that they dont necessarily want or need. it raises the cost of that in a way that makes it unaffordable. while the goal of obamacare was supposed to be universal coverage, we know that about 28 million people are still uninsured in the country. what thats done as its narrowed the risk pools so only older people with more illnesses have signed up, while younger, healthier ones have not and thats raised premiums for everybody. >> julie: i want to talk to all...

Years, has completely failed. >> melissa: senator, granting everything you just said, the problem is that all of those things save money and they cut funding, but you still have -- you are going to create these risk pools with money, youre going to continue to have the subsidies, the medicaid cuts are just slowing the growth -- spending, it is not actual cuts, so there is a lot of spending, and you are not forcing people to pan, so how are you going to pay for the health care youre disturbing? >...