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>> 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...

>> besides protecting them, are you going to be able to prevent their premiums from skyrocketing? that's the concern. if you isolate them into risk pools that the inevitable impact is the rise in premiums. how do you protect that? >> 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 insur...

Thunderous crowds, virtually unanimous support of the people who supported us in last fall's election. but was even more inspiring to me, as we walk the shop room floor, not just the business owners expressing enthusiasm for the president's plan to cut business taxes and cut taxes across the board, but the guys that had paused from working on the line, to reach out to this president and just thank him for being there. somebody said to me recently thatverybody that puts on a steel-toed bt ins couny knows they've got somebody fighting for them every day, and it is absolutely true, and it is pres...

Mechanics and actuarial science of insurance has come up with an amendment that we think works very well and it gets to where we all want to go. we want to bring down costs, preserve preks for people with pre-existing conditions, and we want to respect the fact that states, you know, have different issues, different health care marketplaces, and we want to give states greater flexibility so that they can get the maximum reduction in policies and premiums and so that we can get the best possible health care system. what we've learned is a cookie cutter one size fits all health care system doesn...

Waiver, there are multiple layers of pre-existing condition protections, like continuous coverage. if you have a health care problem and you have health care insurance, you can't be denied or raided for higher health care costs, and if you switch your plan, you keep your coverage, the same protections apply, even if your state gets a waiver. but the more important point i think is why this amendment i think is a step in the right direction is we believe the smarter way to go on getting premiums down and protecting people with pre-existing conditions is having federal and state support for peop...