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Subsidies. it repeels the obamacare mandates on individuals and businesses. ends the funding for planned parenthood and sends it to community health centers which there are more of. it has a medicaid per capita block grant. that's the biggest entitlement reform anyone here has seen. it nearly doubles the amount of money people can put into health savings accounts. that's a law i co-authored which is what conservatives believe is critical for creating a free market in health care. it equalizes the tax treatment of health care. tax credit for health insurance is something we as health care conse...

Surcharge. that surcharge is actually -- if you just had a heart attack and your health premiums would otherwise double, a 30% increase is actually a good deal. you're encouraging people to stay out of the market. we want to encourage people to have health insurance continuously so they don't have those gaps in their coverage and higher cost as a result. >> you have an interesting perspective. you have the academic expertise. you've also worked on campaigns. paul ryan called this bill a conservative wish list. it ticks off everything on the wish list. is it? >> well, if you look at the comment...

Doctors, hospitals, everyone competing against each other for our business as patients. as consumers. you do that when you create a vibrant individual market. lower cost, more competition, more choice and, most importantly, get washington out of the business of being a nanny state. of micromanaging and rung health care into the ground. get it back to patients. get it back to doctors. get it back to states. that's what this does. this is monumental, exciting, conservative reform that fixes these problems. this is something that people -- i've been working on this for 20 years. this is exciting....

That. we know it will come well before the bill gets to e floor. it's very common you have mark-ups in authorizing committee levels before you have a score. that's common practice. because we made some changes this weekend to accommodate members conserves, particularly conservatives, that pushed the date back. so i expect at the beginning of next week we'll get the score, well before we go to the floor. >> you say you have no doubt you'll get the 218 votes necessary to pass the bill. what gives you that certainty. what your seeing -- >> i have no doubt we'll pass this because we're going to ke...

Chairman joe crowley, i believe. here's what paul ryan had to say, if we have it. >> this is monumental, exciting, conservative reform that fixes these oem thiss something that people -- i've been working on this for 20 years. this is exciting. this is what we've been dreaming about doing and we know it's going to make a positive difference in people's lives in this country. >> democrats, of course ustill expressing concerns. i want to bring in forbes opinion editor and one of the top conservative thinkers on elt care. check out his latest op-ed. gop's obamacare replacement will make coverage ...