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Before getting coverage. this is not like the individual mandate on some level, which is you want young healthier people to be incentivized to get into the marketplace making it work better and spreads out the risk pool in general and hopefully drives costs down a little. what they're trying to do here is essentially incentivize people who would want insurance for long periods of time to get back into the marketplace as quickly as possible to avoid that six-month penalty here. this isn't the individual mandate. it's a watered down version of a mandate but necessary for the health of the market...

Mitch mcconnell keeping track of where his members are. they'll do this with just republican votes because they're using budget rules to pass this. so that means he can only lose two republican senators to get to the 50 votes he need. that way he could require bringing in mike pence to cast the deciding vote on this legislation. that's how this has been playing out. they are up against the clock. they have set essentially a july 4th resays deadline so, they're here this week, here next week, and then they're gone back in their home districts for the july 4th holiday. mccontinue them has said, ...

About the cbo score on the house measure passed on repealing and replacing obamacare. there is some talk that if it's radically different an what the house projected they'll have to vote again on healthcare. you are working on your own system and proposal in the senate. how is it going? the working group meets twice a week. any gop senator can come. what goes on in the meetings and what can you tell us? >> we're having a lot of discussions about the bill and we all understand that the house bill has to be essentially rewritten. there is not going to be a whole lot about the senate bill that lo...

And some of the things we have to work on, for example, are the refundable tax credit. we need to make sure that that's sufficient so that low-income people can actually buy a policy. >> we will work together carefully to write our own bill. we will make sure we know what our bill costs. >> special budget rules allow the senate to pass health care with just 51 votes but republicans probably need some help from democrats. republicans have the majority in the senate but it's not as big as the majority they have over in the house. the senate is in dc this week, the house is out on res which means...

Preexisting conditions. >> quite a few republicans are looking at it with caution. >> part of the problem that i have is that the underlying premise of obamacare was that the federal government would for the first time buy insurance for people, that's not premise of obamacare has kept. some of the things we will have to work on, for example, refundable tax credit, we need to make sure that that's sufficient so that low-income people can actually buy a policy. >> we will work together carefully to write our own bill, whether he make sure we know what our bill costs. >> special budget rules allo...