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Or to take care of this insurance premium. this insurance expansion we have a shortage of primary care doctors. we are not paying them enough an incentivizing. we don't have enough nurses or nurse practitioners. we put the cart before the horse. we should have started off with more doctors. >> we actually agree a lot here. medicaid expansion should stay. >> managing it. >> medicaid expansion should stay and we should have a coverage -- a system where everyone is defaulted into catastrophic coverage. steve: bad news for you right now doesn't sound like that's what's going to happen. >> we might...

Collapse, they'll actually be able to buy products off the exchanges, including catastrophic coverage that's very important to them as we make this transition. and so it is very carefully and deliberately thought out. >> thank you. >> there you have it. chairs of -- let's just call them for the architects of the republicans replacement to obamacare. they promised it. campaigned on it. won elections on it. energized a huge swath of the country on it. today is the day. republicans finally roll out their plan to replace it. and already, as you can see from the line of questioning, the fight is on...

The worst part of that is we are chasing young people away from insurance coverage through the various obamacare mandates. as a result, 45% of those people who decided not to sign up for obamacare and pay the penalty instead or get an exclusion are the people under the age of 35. we need to reform those markets so we can give options that are affordable and available to more people that come onto insurance coverage. we also believe to reform under medicaid will allow states to drag more of their dollars into coverage, rather than the bureaucratic processes have to go through to get wafers. [in...

Chaffetz. he's been watching "f "fox & friends" and tweet back at the screen talking about expa expanding state -- so you can buy coverage across the states which, guess what, is already offered. this idea that somehow that's going to be the quick fix to obamacare and quick fix to the health care industry and insurance industry is sort of ludicrous because a lot of states have tried that and it doesn't work. if you're in new york, you don't -- you're not going to want to buy health insurance in mississippi because a health insurance plan isn't going to want to have the cost and sort of expense...

>> that's up to cbo. >> we are looking at continuous coverage, this is not a novel concept, by the way. you can still find a similar version of this to cover pre-existing conditions and medical part b, medicare part d and in the employer market. we modeled it after that. one of the issues we found is that some people were gaming the system with guaranteed issue. it is not they had a pre-existing condition necessarily, it's that they paid for nine months of insurance, get 12, the other automatically come back into market. that's part of what's causing the spiral downward. what we want to make s...