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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 before meeting with the 13 members...

The house floor saying, your constituents dont know your name but they will when im done with you. they were singing goodbye because they feel they have political momentum and so dire in these districts. they might be flat wrong, and certainly might be flat wrong at the end of the day when it goes through the senate and you have a different spectrum of republicans who have to deal with it to get ut out of senate. >> part is a calculation about who the swing voters will be in 2018. they have to f...

Here is the catch point. who is going to pay for that? who is going to pay for that? the kaiser family foundation has done a study on this and side high risk pools work, they actually work but they are underfunded. i believe that president trump is sending a message and implied this on several occasions, maybe more money would be sent there than before. right now were spending 64 billion a year to subsidize the state exchanges. what if we used half of that, 30 billion and subsidized high-risk po...

Surprise. that might explain while outside pences speeches theyre protesting to protect the affordable care act. thank you for being here. so that disconnect where people didnt understand that what they had with connect was, in fact, obamacare has led them to elect a governor who promised to repeal obamacare came in and blew up the state exchanges. what can you give us some anecdote a.m.s on some of your constituents who now realize what theyre losing? >> we have, for instance, several community...

Involved. there is health savings accounts where patients can pay out-of-pocket for more things. where there is tax deductions. he put for the a proposal where you get tax credits and use that to buy insurance with. as well as directly services. >> martha: thats a comprehensive plan very different than what we got in obamacare. so the big question is how do you give the new program and how do you get it started while protecting people and making sure that you dont have those gaps in between? bec...

Involved. there is health savings accounts where patients can pay out-of-pocket for more things. where there is tax deductions. he put for the a proposal where you get tax credits and use that to buy insurance with. as well as directly services. >> martha: thats a comprehensive plan very different than what we got in obamacare. so the big question is how do you give the new program and how do you get it started while protecting people and making sure that you dont have those gaps in between? bec...

Low-cost, low-premium insurance could be introduced right away to protect the public from somebody getting ill. >> melissa: something missing in what youre saying, how do you pay for the really sick people? it makes sense but the reason we had all those other things in place were trying to pay for the people who have pre-existing conditions and use a lot of healthcare. how do you pay for that? >> thats why president trump is saying it will take a while, a year or two for this whole thing to be f...

Health care at the federal level. that didnt work. lets have this manager in a way that gives a lot more direct relationship between patients and their doctors and the clinics that are local debt management. what is wrong with that? >> well, first of all, lets be clear what the collins proposal is. it is to say, states that want to keep medicaid expansion and the state exchanges, they can keep medicaid expansions and the state exchanges in the federal government will continue to pay the bill. th...

Health care at the federal level. that didnt work. lets have this manager in a way that gives a lot more direct relationship between patients and their doctors and the clinics that are local debt management. what is wrong with that? >> well, first of all, lets be clear what the collins proposal is. it is to say, states that want to keep medicaid expansion and the state exchanges, they can keep medicaid expansions and the state exchanges in the federal government will continue to pay the bill. th...

Repeal obamacare? >> i feel hes going to make changes. thats what i feel. hell make changes to tweak it and everybody will be able to, in kentucky, obtain it. because when we switched to healthcare.gov it was very stressful because they didnt know where they were going. outreach workers, we kind of guide them in the system and get them through the process because in our area, some people dont even have computers. >> from state exchanges to the federal exchanges because the republican governor ca...