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Period. he isnt advertising for it we may see this week in the tax bill they may be getting rid of the individual mandate. ainsley: there are several insurance companies, more of them. not several seven of them pulling out next year. we have a list. if this is one of your insurance companies were going to ask you advice. humana, anthem, aetna, molina, blue cross blue shield, optima and medica. who is left? >> you do have united healthcare group a giant. they have markedly increased their premium...

Kooev keep you ahead of the curve in the coming weeks. >> congress returns to session next week and there may be a bipartisan effort to return to health care, believe it or not. patty murray of washington. theyre working on a narrow health care fix to try to shore up the individual insurance markets. this, of course, after a bunch of big insurers have left key state exchanges, something that could look alone the lines of insuring subsidies that go to insurance companies. continue, provide more f...

Choice is an issue too with big name insurers pulling out of some state exchanges. next year 38 keens are expected to have no obamacare providers. republicans have pounded away on such weaknesses. >> and their deductibles are through the roof. its a disaster. >> reporter: but obamacare is succeeding in a number of ways, too. 20 million people who didnt have health insurance before the law now do. people with pre-existing conditions have more protection and even though many republicans believe th...

I want 100%, but i will vote 50%, 75%, but im not voting to create new entitlements for insurance companies. >> so what about that, senator graham? doesnt this plan keep in some of those entitlements and certainly the taxes? >> right. so heres what i would say to rand. hes a libertarian. i respect him very very much. obama care was designed to lead to single payer healthcare. they were going to make it so expensive for employers that they would drop coverage on their employees. they would go int...

Steel, former house speaker, also jason johnson. it is so wonderful to see you. michael, lets start with you since this is the republican health care bill. this amendment is trying its best to find a middle ground between the conservatives of the party with the ted cruz amendment and the moderates, but is it going to get someone like susan collins on board? >> were inching to the finish line. youre seeing changes on both sides. changes like additional resources for the opioid epidemic, more stat...

Insurers, partly by breaking down some of the regulatory barriers that exist in the state exchanges. second, lower pharmaceutical drug prices and in fact, medical care costs generally but pharmaceutical drug prices are much higher than they should be, much higher than in other industrialized countries partly because of excessive profits or price gouging and lack of transparency, negotiation for medicare prices just as the v.a. does it. there are other points where we can come together and improv...

Us. so the landscape has changed, completely changed. >> thats why when looking at this bill and looking at the cbo score, we have to look at the effect on medicaid as much as we have to look at the effect on people in the individual markets who have a policy on the exchanges. medicaid is 70 million people, the exchanges are 10 or 11 million people. >> exactly. what people tell me time and time again, im sure you heard it from your friends who buy insurance on the exchanges, state exchanges or h...

By the prospect of in senate bill or something like it passing? or do you think they like the certainty of obamacare what theyve come to adapt to service that market. >> they certainly like certainty but on one level they like it because more money is put into stabilize the state exchanges. and also keeping in mind the lobby, the health care lobby is 3 and a half not four times bigger than any other lobbying effort out there. mitch mcconnell met with lobbyists from the health care industry befor...

Exchanges and also keep in mind the lobby, the health care lobby is three and a half to four times bigger than any other lobbying effort out there. mitch mcconnell met with lobbyists in the health care industry before meeting with the 13 members of senate who are writing this with him. but if youre a hospital out there you see a temporary boon, maybe this is a positive. when people go to the emergency room, especially in low income areas, medicaid pays for that. if people are without that covera...

Keep your doctor when you cant keep your doctor. what is mean is forcing young people to pay up for coverage when maybe they cant afford that coverage. what is mean is saying government subsidies will help when they wont or plenty of state exchanges will have their back when they cant. what is mean, premium increases. keeps soaring. coverage that keeps shrinking. what is mean the telling folks healthcare is like money in the bank even if it means theres no money left in their pocket. thats whats...