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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 bankrupt. what we need to do is to improve the affordable care act so that there are things that can be better handled. the market can be better handled. coverage can be improved. but not through the ahca. >> we have to take a br...

That everyone at the department of the interior is having their first ever bring your dog to work day, becoming the first federal department to go dog-friendly. according to second ryan zinke, having dogs in the workplace can help reduce stress and so if anyone is up for a field trip later, let me know because i am pretty sure that everyone here could use a little bit of a stress reliever appeared with that, i will take your questions. >> reporter: sarah, welcome to the podium. >> thank you. does that mean you're going to be super nice today, right? >> reporter: on the process of getting the a...

Harm. and we think this bill does tremendous harm. we hope that once it gets to the senate, that the senate will really look at the aca and say let's improve on the affordable care act and not act on the aahca. >> one of the most interesting political phenomenon of the day was that there were some so-called moderate republicans who were opposed to a more moderate, more generous version of this bill. who then voted for this crueller version, to use the shorthand. i'm going try out my theory on you about why they did that and what the closing argument would be on that. and it would be all about ...

Forward. and finally, what the bill does that is also rather egregious is that it separates out people who are older from people who are poorer in terms of the amount -- in terms of the rate of insurance that they have to pay. up to five times more for older folks versus younger folks. for example, someone who is 64 years old and makes $26,000 a year could end up paying $14,000 a year in health insurance. now i don't think that $2,000 or $4,000 tax credits towards that 14,000 really helps too much. so we really think that this is a flawed bill. and it's a bill that does tremendous harm. and we...

To talk 200 billion, the fund the republicans set aside to ensure the chronically ill, high-risk pools, is actually $200 billion short but they will give states resources if they waive out of the conditions and set up some sort of mechanism to try to help those folks. the problem is that mechanism is going to be severely underfunded as has always been the case with these high-risk pools. >> yeah, what about those costs? there are some anecdotal cases we can point to, states that set up these high-risk pools and didn't seem sustainable in the long term, at least. jared's argument here that mone...