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I won't go through the troubles they had signing up. paid premiums, sending their check stubs to make sure they qualified for the subsidies, did their taxes in march of 2015, got the bad news that they made too much money, and had to pay $15,000 back to the irs. now the irs isn't real kind about being forgiving about it, in order to pay that $15,000 back because again, they made too much money, they first pleaed their 401k, then had to sell their home, that they intend to live in for the rest of their life, so they wouldn't lose their home. i mean, think about that. now, now sherry and vern ar...

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Of months. so how do we know why? >> we do but nobody wants to talk about it. you remember bill clinton talking about obamacare as a crazy system. he's talking about people are busting it and then they're left with premiums that have doubled and their coverage cut in half. those are those forgotten men and women. but we know why those premiums have doubled. we've done something with our healthcare system like you would do with auto insurance. states that have innakt acted guarantee issue, which is the guarantee for pre-existing conditions, it crashes their marks. it causes their marks to colla...

Portman and cop toe have been pushing far treatment for opioid addiction which was not in the draft circulating yesterday. it seems stunning given the numbers in this country. joining us from capitol hill, another senator with his own concerns. chairman of the homeland security committee, ron johnson of wisconsin, what are your concerns? >> well, let me read you a quote. you've got this crazy system where all of a sudden 25 million more people have health care, and then the people out there busting it sometimes 60 hours a week wind up with their premiums doubled and their coverage cut in half....

Have to factor in that a big chunk of the people will be voluntarily deciding not to buy insurance if this bill becomes law. that being said, there are some problems here, a number of people who did receive health insurance because of subsidies or being put on medicaid, they may be seeing their coverage cut and that's something that i think republicans haven't quite figured out and that they're hoping to figure out in the senate when the senate takes a look at this bill. >> and particularly the difficult to predict here, greg, we don't know how many states will apply for the waivers, how many ...