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Ladies, thank you both so very much. m.j., let me begin with you. i have been reading so much about this. there is so much misinformation out there about this new republican bill and sex assault victims, you see headlines like this makes rape a pre-existing condition and worries about loss of coverage. what are the facts? >> look, there is a lot of misinformation about this house bill that passed yesterday. it is because it is genuinely a very complicated and big issue so just to clear things up, here is what the house actually voted on yesterday as it pertains to pre-existing conditions. reme...

Opioid and addiction funding stripped out of the bill. we haven't heard that much about it yet. we will hear more about it in the senate. there's a lot in here that impacts people's individual lives. that's why changing health care is so difficult. it's not a pie in the sky conversation that people can't relate to. this is about when you go to your primary care physician, how much it costs, whether you can afford it. as the professor said, for people in the high risk pools, many of them, the premiums are just too high. how much money can they subsidize it with, is that enough. >> let me ask ly...

Completely change the way that we are operating once again when we just spent the last seven yoe years implementing the affordable care act. not to mention the increase in the number of uninsured which the cbo estimated on the first bill, 24 million people would end up without health insurance. it's devastating both for cuts to the program and for the people who are going to lose coverage. >> by the way, to that point, it is not as though just because the house voted and passed this bill, the cbo is not going to score this and tell us how much it's going to cost and -- >> it will. like in two ...

You have presumably and hopefully gotten a lot of treatment for it and that could include treatment for a mental disorder. now, prior to obamacare, that treatment that you have gotten in the past could have counted as a pre-existing condition and therefore insurance companies could have charged you more. i think the fear that's out there is that if you live in a state that potentially applies for this waiver, then because of your past and your medical history, you suddenly are looking at a situation where you can't afford insurance. >> it's the states is what i'm hearing. so m.j., thank you fo...

Overbooked and listen, i fly delta a lot. i feel like they are pretty good at giving folks quite a bit of money to change flights or to be bumped for someone else. is that just -- is that not working? what's happening here? >> in this case it's not working. the guy paid for the seat. he had his infant son and should be able to sit the person there. he was told by the gate agent evidently he could take his child on and do that. he was going along that way. now we have a crew member who has come up with her own set of rules. so we don't really know what the rules are but we do know for sure it i...