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Score. so do you think the president's going to allow the senate to take their time with their vote? >> well, i think the senate's going to decide they can take their time. but this is a big legislative move forward. this was a significant piece of legislation they passed. let's put this in the right context. the president ran on getting rid of obamacare and won because of that in states like pennsylvania, wisconsin, michigan, big democratic states. and now he's going forward and doing what he promised to do. so i think you have to look at this as being very significant. let's not forget there...

We actually came up with congress member reid in february. he is a congress member, rare right now, continuing to hold town hall meetings. meeting with constituents after a lot of blow back from the support for trump and health care plan. he put out a statement to the effect where he said the ahca holds protections for people with pre-existing conditions and medicaid. the bill will provide much-needed property tax relief for new yorkers. he is selling it as a big win in new york. a very conservative think tank in new york says this will cost new york alone $7 billion from treasury. we think th...

One brush like any other community, but i will tell you, most of the major medical organizations have had something to say about the ahca and most of them were concerned primarily because of the estimates that some 20, 25 million people would lose their health care insurance. that's the big concern from just about every major medical organization. i will say, you and i have talked about this, it's not to say they were thrilled with the existing system, or are thrilled with the existing system. only 3% or 4% of the medical community give the affordable care act, obamacare, an a grade. there was...

Democrats have talked about. >> be that as it may, i think you agreed with me under the ahca, insurers could cause $100,000 of charges to people with a pre-esting condition. that's not the case under obamacare. that means that pre-existing condition patient no longer has coverage. >> we kept the time as even as we could. that was a spirited back and forth. i appreciate both of you, jared bernstein, avik roy, to be continued another time. i appreciate you joining us. we're going to take a quick break. coming up on the other side, more trouble for uber. justice department launching an investig...

>> a lot of ads. >> and maybe in 2020. >> dr. damle, if you got the 30 seconds on the senate elevator in the capitol going up three floors with a senator, you just had that one moment to talk to a senator, a republican senator about this, what would you tell that senator? >> well, number one is that you do need to get a cbo score. you cannot pass any bill without a cbo score. but number two is this is irresponsible. it really affects our patients. these are patients' lives that are at stake. these patients have chronic conditions. they can get cancer and not be properly covered. they can go ba...