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Caucus who are from more conservative districts who might not have that same impetus. >> i certainly think republican colleagues of mine will favor elimination of the medical device tax. it's a very onerous tax and to up the employees from 50 to 500 is something that will be very attractive. and on the democratic side will attract -- >> let's find out. anything that we've talked about so far sound appealing to you, the csr payments under congressional oversight and appropriations or adjusting the employer mandate or repealing the medical device tax? any of those things work for you? >> thank y...

Went away. he's threatening to cut the subsidies, the cost sharing with insurance companies that go to low income american. that's one of the threats. the other threat is the subsidies that congress get. >> the subsidies that go to the insurance companies, they're called the risk corridors. this is one of the reasons that we have to fix this. i hear from people all the time about the cost of insurance. when you look at the $9 million in, the affordable care act -- that is why the president keeps saying, you know, we need to look at those subsidies. it's why we keep saying this has to be fixed,...

22 or 23 million people off the rolls, diminished the benefits, increased the cost, had an age tax, undermained medicare -- undermined medicare and really was not a good proposal. i think that there is -- and senator mcconnell's, one of his bills that he had, the repeal and replace, he had a provision haha we can all embrace, and it was a provision to cover the cost-sharing that is in, cost-sharing reduction. it extends the reinsurances which is very important. it has short-term stability, long-term stability, and i fully support that and hope that he would advance that. chris: all right. let'...

22 or 23 million people off the rolls, diminished the benefits, increased the cost, had an age tax, undermained medicare -- undermined medicare and really was not a good proposal. i think that there is -- and senator mcconnell's, one of his bills that he had, the repeal and replace, he had a provision haha we can all embrace, and it was a provision to cover the cost-sharing that is in, cost-sharing reduction. it extends the reinsurances which is very important. it has short-term stability, long-term stability, and i fully support that and hope that he would advance that. chris: all right. let'...

Sicker individuals in the risk pools particularly in smaller states. >> we need to adequately fund high-risk pools that doesn't necessarily mean cost-sharing for young and healthy individual who is are having to pay for older individual who is have chronic illnesses and many are self-inflicted. we need positive incentives for preventive medicine and healthy behaviors. i had a patient recently who came in, she had a mass, breast cancer, overweight, i didn't get my screening mammograms because i don't like the feeling of compression of a mem -- mammogram and she has no desire to quitting because...