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Some of these states, most all of them except like one company in some of these states have dropped out. you have to make attractive for the insurance companies. the insurance company says the problem is they can't afford to do it because they're covering all the older penal. younger people weren't buying into it. pete: absolutely. that's what happened in iowa. i was there in dubuque last insurer about to leave. cost prohibitive but also cost prohibitive for the consumer getting individual health insurance outside of those markets as well. this bill ultimately if it passes the senate and goes ...

Leadership asks them to come across to give them that 216th vote, they would probably do it. if they are the one that walks the plank, if you will, on this bill that as kaitlyn makes very clear may not walk in the senate, it's going to be fluid as we try to figure out where everybody stands on this. everybody's whip counts are up in the air at the moment. leaders behind the scenes are trying to walk through this and get their members comfortable with it. real quick, because this is an important point, adding money to this, $8 billion, does not shift the paradigm or change the dynamic. this is ...

Votes. based on your discussion with her, is there wiggle room on this from her perspective, or does she think they've got it? >> i think, i mean, you know, part of it is what she says and part of it is the mood music. i think they absolutely believe they've got it. remember, nancy pelosi said and this is very important, earlier this week, we will not bring it up to a vote, unless we have got the votes. so, i don't see any possibility that they would call this vote, this afternoon, unless they were absolutely confident they've got 216. interestingly enough, one clip you didn't have there was p...

Wolf, i think you can see it's not a good bill and they are determined to just ram this thing through and it looks like they're going to call for this vote about 10:00 tonight. >> how disappointed are you that these bart stupak democrats, and the others, are now going to vote for it? because it looked until at least a couple hours or so ago that they were going to vote against it and that presumably would have made it so much more difficult for the democrats to get to that 216 number. >> you're right. and they were trying to get up to about 220, so that nobody was blamed for being the 216th vo...

A loch the democrats, nobody want to be the 216th vote. >> neil: no one wants to be that 216 vote. >> i think it's hard to see how the numbers add up. we're talking about 30 million additional americans being covered by subs dies dies had health insurance. then they say it's going to save money. i think what is likely to happen it's going to explode as soon as the benefits kick in. they are going say we need additional tax increases. capital gains tax, we have lost revenue. i don't think we're going to get money out of this. >> neil: 3.8, on the wealthy, for gains and that sort of thing -- and...