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Government shutdown, but i think on this, you've got, first of all, this is a zombie bill. this is not going to become law. it doea lot of dage to millions and millions of people but it's going to go to the senate. if it changes at all, then the house is going to have to take it up again. there's not a lot of room for error there, but republicans own this. even the folks who voted against it, look, steve, i was in the house for five or six years. i was there when we passed the affordable care act and a lot of democrats who voted against it to try to protect themselves actually ended up losing....

Years. >> a health care bill just passing the house this afternoon by the thinnest of margins. 217 republican votes for it. you see the ceremony there at the white house after, but this bill, this health care plan, far from the finish line right now. many hurdles it still has to clear before it goes into law. we're going to take you through those. also on our agenda, democrats say the politics of this favor them. >> republicans have the majority. they won the vote, but the american people now have to judge them by how they have acted. >> democrats make no mistake about it already see this vo...

Cou coverage will be unaffordable. >> that's the big point. just because you have coverage doesn't mean you'll be able to afford the coverage. what they're saying with the new bill as opposed to the affordable care act, they had a community rating. affordable care act, everybody in a geographic region, regardless of your health problems, based on age, has premium set at the same standard. they're says, let's get rid of that, if you have health issues we can go ahead and start charging you more. estimates up above $100,000 for certain cancers and stuff like that. $4,000 a year for simple things...

Thank you. thank you very much. this really is the group. what a great group of people. and they're not even doing it for the party. they're doing it for this country. because we suffered with obamacare. i went through two years of campaigning, and i'm telling you, no matter where i went, people were suffering so badly with the ravages of obamacare, and i will say this. that as far as i'm concerned, your premiums, they'll start to come down. we'll get this passed through the senate. i feel so confident. your deductibles, when it comes to deductibles, they were so ridiculous that nobody got to ...

Vulnerable. and it shifts power from washington back to the states and most importantly, back to you, the patient. like i said, we got a lot of work to do, but one thing is now clear, republicans are committed to keeping our promise, to lift the burden of obamacare from the american people, and put in place a better, more patient-centered system. >> hugh, it was more than serve years ago that the affordable care act passed on all democratic votes in the house and the senate and republicans since then have been running on this idea of repeal and replace. how much of just the idea of doing somet...