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Moment. welcome back. >> it's 30 minutes past the hour and this morning after a series of false starts the gop could be on the cusp of a big win on health care. the house is set to vote today on a bill to repeal and replace obamacare and the republican leadership says they do at least have the votes to pass it. momentum shifted when two influential moderates that had been no votes clicked into the yes column after meeting with the president and getting newcomb mittments on coverage with people with pre-existing conditions. >> we have seen this movie before but republican leaders had been sayin...

In boss period on the. good story. >> badly in need of a legislative win. president trump, he could get it today. the bill to repeal and replace obamacare is headed to the house floor. can last minute changes get it over the hump? that's next. features ego's arc lithium the #battery technology.mower, it delivers the cutting-torque of gas. and the self-propelled model makes mowing effortless. the ego power+ mower. exclusively at the home depot and ego authorized dealers. iwithout writing a single word. this mother's day create a gift from the heart that could only come from the pandora boutique...

Once the political calculation for the moderate republicans that are undecided that hold the weight of this white house on this vote. >> there's part of them that want to help the gop deliver the white house major victory and republicans could start saying they're legislating. on the other hand without information, without knowing exactly what this is going to do and with 12 step explanations to the basic argument that pre-existing problems are going to lose their coverage they're nervous and thinking about the town halls and going back and that's what they're trying to balance. >> it feels li...

Conditions so in theory they're designed to help avoid coverage but critics say that the new funding isn't going to go far enough. especially if many states wind up applying for the waivers. giving you an example here. the kaiser family foundation estimates an adequate high risk pool would cost $25 billion per year and that $8 billion would cover only a few hundred thousand people. 35 states ran them before obamacare and republicans defend them as a way to cover this separately and lower premiums for healthy consumers but they have a checkered past. they were underfunded and charged high premi...

State you see them pull out of the counsel and leaving with no coverage but i think that's what spicer is talking about that it leaves little access to care and you have all of these people and then you have that wait so if you have a chronic condition you're waiting to go to the doctor. >> we don't know that. we know there were prior to obamacare but we also don't know that's why this will increase options on the marketplace. we'll try to get to the bottom of it in the next hour. >> pumping $8 billion into high risk pools won't match obamacare protections for pre-existing conditions. how do h...