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Them something concrete? >> it may help democrats, but remember that the individual mandate was more or less defunded with the tax reform bill. if the matter of issue that is a requirement that everyones that health insurance, i they is a major liability. we have not heard that yet. it is on appeal and it remains to be seen, but if the guarantee issue so people with pre-existing conditions would not be able to be guaranteed coverage, if they lost that productiopr prodirectipr protection, i think they would have to scramble to make sure the pre-existing conditions are protected. >> that is some...

Of months. so how do we know why? >> we do but nobody wants to talk about it. you remember bill clinton talking about obamacare as a crazy system. he's talking about people are busting it and then they're left with premiums that have doubled and their coverage cut in half. those are those forgotten men and women. but we know why those premiums have doubled. we've done something with our healthcare system like you would do with auto insurance. states that have innakt acted guarantee issue, which is the guarantee for pre-existing conditions, it crashes their marks. it causes their marks to colla...

The united states getting actively involved. the vice president getting actively involved. really people like tom mcarthur and fred upton coming together with solutions to make sure my district, which is different from their district, is protected. not only from pre-existing conditions but, obviously, making sure we drive health insurance premiums down. but i'm optimistic we'll take a good step forward, send it to the senate and make it better there. >> let's dig into substance. you mentioned pre-existing conditions. first and foremost, there's a report in "the wall street journal" that in the...

Contribute to your bad health. some of it is hereditary. you cannot help the way you were born. your family has predisposition towards heart disease, what do you do about that? >> diabetes, breast cancer, it's a billion things to list here. >> exactly. this notion that you're somehow going to, suddenly have them pay more for that, that's ideal, okay, fine, we can do that, how do you mitigate against the poverty. i mean, what do you do to address the fact that they cannot necessarily afford more, so we need to rethink this whole pop situation and stop putting people in boxes and saying that bec...