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Calls. without mccain in the senate, the senate lacks the votes to even be able to debate the bill. dr. sanjay gupta suggests that mccain's condition is fairly serious. what happens if the arizona senator is out for longer than a week. >> it's going to make life a lot more difficult for senate majority leader mitch mcconnell, jake. that's because right now he is holding onto 50 republican votes to even get this bill to the floor to begin debate. and the longer that this debate goes on behind closed doors, the more difficult it's going to be to keep those 50 senators intact at this point. there...

Billion of stabilization funds, changing the eligibility of catastrophic plans and going to improve their coverage numbers somewhat. how much? cbo will have to decide. directionally go a little north. >> catherine, you in your latest column you talk about the fact that people shouldn't get distracted from what is going on in capitol hill with everything else that is going on. this affects every american at one point or another in their lives. certainly affects all their families very directly. what are we looking at as we watch how this unfolds over the next week or so? >> i will be curious to...

Pre-existing conditions. we are eliminate right leg mandates. how it addresses those other three are important. their methodology weighs heavily bone the individual mandate and so the fact that we eliminate mandates, the american people want those gone means that the cbo score will not be as good in coverage numbers. so i want to look at how they discuss their methodology and then make my own decision as to the adequacy of coverage. >> all right. you've been all over this issue. appreciate you coming on and sharing your views as always, sir. >> thank you. >> you got it. coming up, health car...

Lower coverage numbers and ultimately a democratic push for singer payer medicine. >> what is the bill going to look like. right now it seems to have gone, some of the people like the woman you heard in the town hall, not repeal and replace but fix what's there. fix what exists essentially. is that feasible? is that the right path? >> i think it's going to be some combination of repealing the parts of obamacare that don't work and fixing some of the problems the system is facing. some renewed efforts on existing conditions, some renewed efforts on improving coverage number. the original score ...

A very clear idea about how this is going to shake out. the republicans that i'm talking to don't have a clear sense of what the effect of the cruz amendment will be on either coastal coverage numbers, we have to wait and see on that score. but what it does do this new conversation is concerns a number of moderate members for the very fact of what garrett mentioned, it brings things like pre-existing conditions back into the conversation because even though under the cruz plan insurers have to offer plans that do cover pre-existing conditions, the fact that they can offer a plan that doesn't o...