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Leave no room behind with xfi pods. simple. easy. awesome. click or visit a retail store today. welcome back. during the 2014 midterm elections, republican candidates ralied around a promise to repeal and replace obamacare. this time around they are vowing to protect one of the key provisions. guaranteeing coverage for people with pre-existing conditions. >> i'm josh hawley. i support forcing insurance companies to cover all pre-existing conditions. >> taking on both parties and fighting for those with pre-existing conditions. >> i'm fighting to protect pre-existing conditions and increase f...

To protect one of the key provisions. guaranteeing coverage for people with pre-existing conditions. >> i'm josh hawley. i support forcing insurance companies to cover all pre-existing conditions. >> taking on both parties and fighting for those with pre-existing conditions. >> i'm fighting to protect pre-existing conditions and increase funding for nevadans who need it most. >> kevin cramer voted for guaranteed coverage for pre-existing conditions. >> meanwhile, the trump justice department has refused to defend the affordable care act in court issuing challenges to provisions that ban insura...

The congressional budget office releasing their report card, finding the bill could leave 23 million more americans uninsured, and reduce the deficit by $119 billion over the next decade. for some, their premiums could skyrocket. a 64-year-old making roughly $26,500 in some states could see their premiums climb nearly $12,000 or more. those concerns around the country, fueled by last-minute changes to the bill that would allow states to opt out of guaranteeing coverage for basic health services, like maternity care and even ambulances. and states could waive the requirement that insurers don't...

Get waivers from the community rating, does that achieve your promise of protecting people with pre-existing conditions? >> if you have a big pool, think about exxon mobile which probably has about 50,000 em moi yees and they are all in this plan with their families and spouse and children. if 20 people get liver transplants or other expensive illnesses it doesn't matter. within that big 50,000 risk pool, the expense that is associated with a very expensive procedure is spread out among the many, the younger, the healthier. if we could expand the risk pool, we take care of those with pre-exist...

>> i think the way you protect that is, first and foremost you make it very clear. as we did in the first bill, but with the amendments that have taken place, in the last several weeks, and come forward, it is even better still, that we're basically borrowing an idea from the state of maine that has seen a significant drop in premiums for people on their health insurance because you take people that have pre-existing and costly conditions and put them into a high-risk pool and you subsidize that so that it is affordable to those individuals. so you're guaranteeing coverage for pre-existing con...