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Advanceable, refundable tax credit to buy health insurance that they are in charge of. read the bill and you'll find out that all of these dire -- people are going to die and lose their coverage. just doesn't turn out to be true. better to vote for something you can defend than to hesitate and vote for the current circumstances, because this bill, this law, obamacare, is failing. and everyone knows it. >> neil: when i look at the markets today, all three major averages hit all-time highs today. it's almost, and i don't want to use the markets as a proxy on what's going down in washington. if t...

It was one of those challenges that when it faces you as an individual or someone in your family, you want to make sure you have access to the highest quality care that you can receive. the fact of the matter is we don't. we don't want to take care away from anybody. what we want to make certain, though, is that every single american has access to the kind of care that they want for themselves. if you look at the medicaid program right now, we have one third of the physicians in this nation, brian, who are not seeing medicaid patients. so if we want to be honest with ourselves as a society it'...

The people that are part of the medicaid expansion be affected in my state. that is one big concern i have. second concern i have are for the people who are currently on the exchanges and being subsidized. the new bill provides for tax credits. advanceable and refundable. i support the tax credit approach. the question will be are they sufficiently funded in order to help individuals continue to purchase insurance compared to what they're currently receiving on the subsidies. those questions have not been answered to my satisfaction. i was going to say, finally too, on a bill like this i think...

For a bill like this. the republican governors have to be heard more than they have been up to the point. i know they have serious concerns about the medicaid issue and all the governors, particularly the republican governors particularly in expansion states like mine, pennsylvania. >> you brought the idea of tax credits here. what have your constituents been saying in terms of what they prefer? cash goes out frount and you don't get it back until many months later. >> yes, but that's why the tax credits are refundable and advanceable. we have the earned income tax cred credit. i think many on...

It is just obamacare light? >> chris, good morning from the hill. i'm still recovering from that 18-hour hearing but very happy to be with you this morning. what i tell my colleagues, and not just them, but really the american people, is that all americans deserve something better than the current system. we know we have increasing premiums, fewer choices. there are a lot of counties including one in the florida keys where there's only one insurance provider. clearly the current system is broken and we need something better. the approach that we take in our health care bill is different than t...