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Mitigated through tweets his position. all i can say is if you're voting for our bill, you are limiting penalties and giving power to patients and states. if you vote against us, you're voting to keep obamacare. >> jon: joining us now, simon rosenberg and mr. caldwell. simon, do you find yourself as a democrat in an unusual position of applauding rand paul for his opposition? >> i think it's important to recognize the incredible opposition that's come out from the spill from doctors and patients groups and from a public and governors. it is not just rand paul, there's a huge outcry against thi...

It's like a ping-pong match and you know who loses in a bing pong match? the public. >> you've said that and i understand that. before we had obamacare we had nothing. then we have obamacare which isn't perfect. everybody admits that. moderate democrats and rops agree it's a maistake. we're not going to something that's square one. we're going to a hybrid, something of 0 boom obamacare t needs to be fixed. why don't we agree to fix obamacare. >> that's what hickenlooper and a lot of us proposed, gets the market stabilized and then we were going to turn to medicaid and fundamental reform of hea...

Affordable coverage for those with pre-existing conditions. >> everything will end up depending on what hhs determines adequate and affordable coverag coverage. the argument would be the obamacare regulations are much more rigid. less wiggle room. there is another wrinkle which is some of the blue states senators are pointing out that under the funding formula lindsey graham has worked out, there medicaid would be a little bit less generous. red states would go up. i think that's a sweetener lindsey graham put imprecisely for some of those red states which is maybe why some of their governors ...

Alaska senator was given a very strong signal from her governor who was one of the signees on that letter urging the senate to scrap this, to go back to the negotiating table and try to fix obamacare, try and do something participate bipartisan. why is that significant? because as you said at the top of the show, they can only afford to lose a handful of senators. they've already lost two in senators collins and paul. senator mccain is likely to go the way of senator her cause i can. what that governor knows is that alaska benefits allot from obamacare in terms of per capita and as that senato...

John mccain who had given some signal he might be in favor of it, it's a bill that's proposed by one of his very good friends. he's gone back to the argument that he made to oppose the earlier attempts at reform, that he wants it done through regular order. it's not going to be. i think it's a very dicey proposition for this to pass in the optimism, it's cute but i'm not sure it means it's going to pass. through on the other stipulation that arizona governer ducey is behind it. mollie, you're counting heads. >> i think more optimistic than steve. rand paul apparently is the only republican who...