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Prices going up, deductibles going up. people cannot afford -- if they can afford the premiums, they can't afford the deductibles. in my county in the fourth district of ohio no plans are offered in the exchange right now. cbo first told us there would be 21 million people on obamacare today. there are 9. >> okay. so -- so you don't like -- >> 10, 14, 16, about this issue. >> donald trump yesterday, at 3:00, lied and went out there and said under this plan the premiums will go down. you know that there is no chance premiums are going down except for the cruz amendment. the house bill did not h...

A month later on april 25th, the mcarthur amendment is added to the bill allowing states to opt out of many of the requirements, including the essential health benefits that were central to every single policy under obamacare. the amendment helped woe the hardliners who opposed the bill. it ultimately passed the house on may 4th and everybody went to the white house to celebrate. that's what you're looking at right there. celebrating at the white house rose garden. that was just the house. let's turn to the senate and see what happened there. it unveiled its version of the bill less than a mon...

Before voteing? >> well, look, i think that's always a good thing to. we have the score prior and knew the tweaks would improve as they did by it appears a million or so and knew it would have an impact on budget savings but we did have a score on the bill until the last kind of what they call the mcarthur amendment was added. we can see the impact of that and now the senate has all the information in front of them. they are going through their own process. it's in their own end and it's how the bill becomes a law from the old "schoolhouse law" and if the senate can't pass anything we've got t...

Yumts f premiums for the year could go up to $25,000. they are not on board with this. one of your objections today do with cost for seniors. how do you scare that? >> again, if you look at the safe guards put in there with the mcarthur amendment, preskgsipreskg preexisting conditions were locked in. they couldn't go up further than what the law would allow. >> if there's no lapse. >> if there's no lapse. >> if there is no lapse in coverage. but 30 million people could go into that lapse of 63 days between having insurance and getting -- >> well, you will always hear that story out there. if y...

I surprised myself. pete: no kidding. you caught them both that was impressive. steve: it was fantastic. ainsley: i love you brought that up. you are amazing. you are a great athlete. you are wonderful. jackie: couldn't have done it without a good toss from both of you. ainsley: that's what it was. steve: all right, jacque. ainsley: many g.o.p. lawmakers credit last minute changes like the mcarthur amendment as the reason they voted yes on healthcare reform. tom mcarthur joins us with the personal tragedy that i object spider his fight. steve: hillary rodham clinton's worst nightmare about to ...