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Moving forward the way it is say the senate wrap their minds around all this, who are the biggest losers in america based on this? >> so i think -- this is a bill that impacts so many people. half the population has a pre-existing condition. i think all those people are extremely worried. we're all seeing them on twitter and all over the level of energy and intensity is probably higher than even i would have guessed. secondly people who are older, my age, 50, once you get to 50, there's an age tax in this bill that makes the cost of premiums shoot up and tax credits to go down for people with ...

Looks, one of the good things in the affordable care act was pre-existing conditions and now they have undermined that. every medical association indicates that. consumer groups say that. pre-existing conditions. >> you have members of the republican party, willie, that are saying there is no guarantee. >> that was billy long's statement, again, a conservative republican from a conservative state. >> i think ileana ross said, despite leadership saying that's the case. >> said pre-existing conditions would be taken care of and they are not. you're best guess after all this roiling about repeal ...

Pediatric services among them. in other words, health care. health care. >> elise jordan, so you have mainstream republicans and moderate republicans against the bill for that reason. you have conservatives against the bill because there aren't enough free market incentives there to actually try to get some free enterprise into our health care system. there is no wonder that this thing sitting at, what, 17% approval rating nationwide. why vote for that bill? >> joe, i just can't help but to feel that this was really hijack by the surance companies, that their lobbying effort on president trump...

A very big catch that a lot of people did not know about. the person who bought the reverse mortgage could stay in his or her house until they died, true. but after death, everyone else living in the house would have to go unless they paid back the loan. elizabeth's grandmother died in january of 2014. a letter from financial freedom arrived almost immediately telling the survivors to pay up. >> they said that the house needed to be paid in full by april 28th or else they would foreclose the property. >> reporter: unless specific arrangements were made in advance, surviving widows, children, p...

They died. >> if you're 62 or older and own your own home i'd like to talk to you about something you should know. >> reporter: turns out there was a very big catch that a lot of people did not know about. the person who bought the reverse mortgage could stay in his or her house until they died, true. but after death, everyone else living in the house would have to go unless they paid back the loan. elizabeth's grandmother died in january of 2014. a letter from financial freedom arrived almost immediately telling the survivors to pay up. >> they said that the house needed to be paid in full by...