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Appropriately. the cbo numbers do not lie. we know they are going to have 24 to 25 million people lose health care. that is without a doubt, okay? but let's talk about some of the other things including rollback of the medicaid expansion. i have patients that come to my clinic now that have never seen a doctor as adults because they have never had health care but they work every day because they couldn't afford health care. now with the medicaid expansion they can get preventive services. let's not forget about the other things. let's talk about the rolling back of the essential benefits that ...

Insurance. would you live with that if that's in the final draft? >> well, there is no final draft. >> but that's my question, congressman. if it's in there because it sounds like it's going to take that to get some of these freedom caucus members to yes, could you vote on that? >> i'm not going to speculate. what i can tell you is as the husband of a cancer survivor, pre-existing conditions and making sure that families that are going through the same thing that my family went through 17 years ago don't have to worry about getting coverage and also having to reach a lifetime cap. these are es...

Bicameral way because i think we have to reform the system and i'm concerned about the exchanges and about the fact in rural america, as you know, chris, in many places there's only one insurer in the market. >> right. so congressman, you had an interesting trajectory on this bill. you represent a district that went for hillary clinton, you were originally a yes on this bill, you've come on my show to talk about it and defend it and then you were a no on the bill. can you walk me through what changed your mind? >> certainly. in the commerce committee i voted to make sure there was no denial of...

Changed your mind? >> certainly. in the commerce committee i voted to make sure there was no denial of coverage based on pre-existing conditions, that people could stay on their parents' policies, no lifetime cap and making sure the expanded medicaid was in place at least until 2020. i was not on ways and means that dealt with the tax portions and i don't think the refundable tax credit, chris, were generous enough and i don't think we found the funding for that. and then the cbo score came out and i read it and i think that that was very challenging and a sobering analysis by cbo. >> you've a...

The key point here is the lifetime cap, right? >> yes. >> the policy basically says -- and folks are familiar with this, you spend a million dollars and then that's it, for your life, it's done. affordable care act got rid of that. if that lifetime cap existed, you would have just been out of luck. >> yeah. we would have been out of luck. >> judy, you've got a story about the affordable health care act and a condition called black lung that affects a lot of people here. i want to talk about that after the break. >> i voted for him only solely because he said he was going to put the coal miners...