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This up. >> and ali, let me let you hear sean spicer who was out there today guaranteeing there was no plan "b" and there was going to be a vote, only to be made a fool of yet again by the vote being pulled and the rug being pulled out from under him. this was sean spicer explaining the logic of getting rid of maternity care as a benefit under obamacare. >> older men, older women who had gone past maternity age were buying benefits that weren't necessary for them. i think if you're an older man you can generally say you're not going to need maternity care. >> that a strong argument in your vie...

Margins in the senate that democrats had seven years ago. so, it's even harder for them to find some consensus -- >> but you believe that charlie dent, you know, part of politics, a big part of it, is the person-to-person contact, reading the body language and reading the voice. the charlie dent we just saw there is not a happy camper and he seems things are not going in his direction and he's not happy about it. >> what's also different from seven years ago is that you're taking things away from people. when you were passing obamacare, you were giving them essential health benefits, you were ...

They're really trying to talk this up. >> and ali, let me let you hear sean spicer who was out there today guaranteeing there was no plan "b" and there was going to be a vote, only to be made a fool of yet again by the vote being pulled and the rug being pulled out from under him. this was sean spicer explaining the logic of getting rid of maternity care as a benefit under obamacare. >> older men, older women who had gone past maternity age were buying benefits that wer't neceary for them. i think if you're older man you can generally say you're not going to need maternity care. >> that a stro...

Lawmakers are talk about this bill failing by a big margin because at the end of the day it isolated too many members of the republican party. >> thank you. dr. sanjay gupta joins us now. we are talking about the so-called essential health benefits, one of the parts involves maternity coverage? >> yeah, you have that whole list of things that mj just laid out the minimal coverage that people get with their health care, you have choices when you buy your health care but no matter what it's worth looking at again, in-hospital procedures, for example wouldn't be covered under some plans that's a ...

And the question that obviously comes up is that well look, men can't get pregnant, very true, but men typically are part of the baby making process an that's one of the things that the proponents pointed out, look you're still investing in having a safe pregnancy, a healthy baby, newborn, part of the coverage you're buying but also that look if you don't have everyone buying and getting this minimal care women if they get pregnant would pay more it's called gender rating because you could get pregnant and everyone seemed to agree that wouldn't be a good idea which is why maternity coverage is...