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Under obamacare. so when we talk about the death spiral and the imploding obamacare, we're talking about 10 million people. it's not a small number, it's very significant, very important. there are 70 million people on medicaid. there are far more people on medicaid than there were at the beginning of obamacare. so the effect on medicaid in this legislation is much bigger than the effect on the individual insurance market. those are the two pieces of information to look at very closely and i will carry on through this and then i'll get back to -- >> yeah, we'll keep a camera on you. i can see ...

By 2026 under obamacare. the cbo is very detailed. it takes about -- talks about the effects on the deficit and on premiums. we both got it at the same time so i'm not as far down the report yet to give you those pieces of information. but i throw this caution out at this point in the discussion. and that is, when talking about the effects on people, we need to talk about the effects of total cost not just premiums. there's always a way to get premiums as you know nicolle, lower or higher. you need to find out what you get for the premiums. we use the benchmark of the silver plan in obamacare....

This has to be do with picking a plan that everybody's going to like. i'd like to say love. but like. but we have a very good plan. >> ali velshi is joining me now because we have breaking news. a congressional budget office sees 22 million more uninsured by 2026. someone printed it big enough for my eyes to see. what does that mean? >> that's the headline. by 2026, there would have been 28 million people who didn't have insurance. for whatever reason. whether they weren't part of the exchanges, didn't choose to buy insurance. that would have been the problem to solve. under the senate approve...

Clearly a sense here and it's surprised a lot of long time hill watchers and reporters i talk to every day, there seems to be a sense that mitch mcconnell is willing to put this on the floor even if he doesn't have 50 votes and that is a very different strategy than one that we have seen him employ in the past. kind of contrary to the conventional wisdom of how this place works but it might accomplish giving the people who want to be able to go home to say, hey, i voted against obamacare. i voted to repeal it. take the procedural vote for example. that's what dean heller said i'm going to vote...

Promised and should they run for president again if you're ted cruz or rand paul, that they want to be able to say that they were for a full repeal. you have got -- i don't know that moderate is the right term, but you have folks in states where they're worried about the numbers of people that rely on their medicaid dollars. i mean, what are the prospects for passage even without this cbo number and is that mcconnell's goal -- passage, or is its simply to say to the white house, hey, i got a bill to the floor. you know, you couldn't convince them, maybe if you weren't tweeting it was mean and ...