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Available to young adults up to age 26, that is correct, right? >> the bill that i authored did not include coverage up to age 26. the insurance companies have said that they were working that, that they were including that in their plans going forward, so we felt it was covered. >> and your bill takes away current benefits which include prescription drugs, mental health benefits, and maternity coverage among others, correct? >> it's different in the legislative arena than the administrative arena. there are other factors we would put in place to make certain the individuals had the care and c...

Hopper for the last six years, back during the obamacare debate, before democrats decided to do this on purely a partisan vote without any republican support, there have been a lot of very good ideas that would accomplish what i said earlier. which is to maximize the choices that you and your family get to make. >> jenna: can you give us one of them? >> well, for example, by eliminating some of the mandates which make health insurance so expensive. in other words, why should you buy insurance if you are a man for maternity coverage? it makes no sense, but yet in this mandated list of coverage,...

>> that are raising costs. >> right. >> maternity coverage for 50-year-olds for example. >> exactly. or being able to buy insurance policies across state lines. these are issues that americans now because they understand so much more about the health market, how it works, having lived under this terrible experience, are going to understand that there are ways to make it better. and republicans need to be pushing those forward to look as though they've got a positive agenda as well. >> republicans and strategy aren't often words you hear in the same sentence. they don't really get it together i...

Care have coverage, mandates? didn't you in effect tell uninsured here is what you have to buy? >> well, actually one of the things i vetoed in the health legislation of our state was that very provision. i don't like the idea that the government tells people they have to have a gold-plated health insurance policy. if they want something that's more specific to their needs. the idea that this 70-year-old has on have birth control provisions or that they have to have maternity coverage, i mean, these are kinds of things that people ought to be able to select on that your own and this is -- at t...

Cancelation notice, governor, because she didn't have maternity coverage. she's already have a hysterectomy and she's not going to have any babies. but her policy was good enough for her and her family but not good enough for the president of the united states and so it was canceled and you know that is wrong. >> senator i appreciate it very much. and i'm delighted to know that i too will have maternity coverage. i am fully covered if i have a baby. merry christmas to you and your family. >> merry christmas to you. thank you, governor. our war heroes are sometimes not shown at precious -- ap...