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Under the purview of obamacare, right? obamacare skyrocketed cost. steve: you want to fix it and make it better than that. >> ceos and arp don't look at is you are going to have choice and competition. if i'm 57 years old and my wife is 58, and you are making me buy maternity coverage, i don't need maternity coverage. let's let people pick healthcare plans that work for the risks in their lives. you can drive down prices, inject competition and you will see this subsidy go a lot further than the exchanges in obamacare making healthcare cheaper for america. brian: have you to understand this th...

In the right direction. but it is not as good as we can do and that is what the american people are entitled to expect.>> okay what about premiums? conservatives it saves the requirements of their proposing, taking points to be repealed. insurers could actually offer cheaper plans that cover less and save another gop bill could actually raise premiums. >> well, if you allow people to shop for what they actually want as opposed to mandating what they must have, then we would see no cost going down here to the current plan is you know the status quo is detached from reality. because i have mater...

People to buy insurance. either pay a higher presume yum or get higher deductibles. this plan doesn't answer your criticisms of obamacare. >> i agree with that point. i think essential benefits have to go. catastrophic policy, steve. people should have the option to buy what's useful for them. we will bring in health savings accounts. >> let's taum counsel. and have a rational discussion. >> let me finish my point. >> i asked you last time what essential benefit were you going to remove and you didn't mention one. >> no i did mention one. >> which one? >> the main point -- i talked about mater...

I don't want a 30-year-old woman who is never going to have kids paying for maternity coverage. >> let's discuss that. if you say maternity coverage is not part of insurance, then you are basically saying women who have babies you have to pay the full price which is about $15,000. that is not insurance. that's just called pay for what you get. that's not insurance. >> that's choice. >> no insurance is spreading the risk over everybody. we all benefit by the way if a woman has good prenatal care and a good delivery there are fewer billion-dollar. i thought we were going to give chances for me t...

Screening mammography and not cover biopsies. i also don't think and verma doesn't think that maternity coverage should be mandated for women who are never going to have children. that's important pointed a woman has brought up. i think we have to relook at these things. tom price said last night he wants to look through all regulations. >> let's step back. >> all the regulations and figure out which have help patients and which don't. who wrote these regulations? attorneys. let's ask a doctor and feel which one works and which don't. steve: dr. emanuel we are out of time. thank you very much....