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Premiums for those who let their coverage lapse. there's a lot of things in this bill people don't like. >> tommy lubi, thanks very much. coming up, the white house on the hunt for a new communications director. but when you have a president who likes to tweet as much as president trump, will anyone really make much of a difference? we'll discuss that when we come back. home: it survived 4 food fights, a one-coat wonder named "grams", and rolled with multiple personalities. number one rated marquee interior. behr's most advanced one-coat hide paint. only at the home depot. in the mirror everyd...

Population that only uses 3% of the health care dollars. how do you get them to purchase. because if they don't purchase -- gregg: right. >> -- the top end are folks with chronic conditions, gets horribly expensive. and that's the battle going on right now. can i give you one quick thing, and i'm sorry -- gregg: go ahead. >> when you hear someone say 23 million, do understand the vast majority of that number is by choice. gregg: sure. >> it's those individuals who are -- gregg: personal responsibility. >> right. yeah. they're not thrown off, they chose not to purchase. gregg: yeah. now, i want...

Their coverage lapse for more than 63 days. we you can't buy fire insurance on your house when your house is on fire. you can't buy health insurance when you find out you got cancer. you have to have continuous coverage. now they will see an increase if they let their coverage lapse for more than 63 days. that's just a part of not letting people game the system. >> let me ask you about now some specific concerns on the president's budget plan. and i mentioned that there are a number of your colleagues, republicans both in the nate and the house who have said it's dead on arrival. is that how y...

Pre-existing conditions? >> neil: everyone? that's another thing that comes up. in some states they could be loosy goosy on this. >> if a state chooses and option that is in the house bill. we're coming up with our own senate bill.t to make sure peop pre-existing conditions are protected, the premiums have skyrocketed, we can get them lower and rescue the people that have been hurt by the collapsing obama healthcare law. >> neil: the senate will have a feature in there that is not as vague. what that calls for, if you let your coverage lapse and you try to get it again, you'll pay through the ...

Cover pre-existing conditions? that is what it says by the letters. >> what folks are getting to is a state that applies and continuous coverage lapse and the community rating issue can be raised. the cornerstone is pre-existing condition continues and goes forward. that is what i promised the people we would do. we cannot let it go forward as is. the markets are collapsing. access to health care will go away. that is immoral not to act to solve the problem. >> there is no question there are problems with some of the marketplaces and individual marketplace venues. there is a good argument to b...