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Under the house plan. right now the biggest problems in the market, premiums are soaring and people are not participating that are healthy and having this adverse selection where you have sick people, not many health people. >> neil: and a high deductible environment as well. >> exactly. i'm not so sure that anything in the house plan changes that. my fear is that if you tell people you can buy insurance after you get sick, that i will get to do that. my fear is under the house plan, obamacare-light, the situation continues to get worse. they admit as much. they put $100 billion in there to ba...

Collapse and leave everybody without affordable health care. we are doing a act of mercy by repealing this law and replacing it with patient centered health care reforms that we as republicans have been arguing for and fighting for years. >> hard to watch. the members of the freedom caucus spoke out what they branded as obamacare light. senator mike lee joined in saying, quote, this is exactly the type of back room dealing and rush process that we criticized democrats for and mo brooks of alabama said right now the speaker of the house does not have the votes to pass this bill unless he's got ...

Paul as dead on arrival and an attempt at obamacare light. >> it's not the obama care replacement plan. not the obamacare repeal plan we've been hoping for. this is instead a step in the wrong direction. do we need to lower the bar in what we believe is conservatives simply because a republican is now in the white house. >> i think what's been put forward currently divides us, there is a way forward. but the current way forward, i don't think is going to work. >> it's not just them, a near united front of influential conservative groups, including heritage action, and the koch brothers for ame...

Kasie the speaker of the house is setting deadlines and says he'll have a bill on the president's desk or floor by easter. is that what mitch mcconnell said on the senate side but pushback from moderate republicans and from the freedom cauc caucus. >> reporter: unexpected amount of protest from conservatives in particular, who are arguing for a seat at the table here, and you played a little bit of this saying look, this just ats to new entitlements i think the key part of their argument and the question about whether them calling it obamacare light, them saying it doesn't represent repeal, is...

A lot better than the one it's replacing. that's his pitch with the overriding pitch being we get this out of the way, we can tinker with it and improve it and sets the stage for something far more dramatic like tax reform. what do you think? >> that to me seems like the trump playbook. regulatory reform. i'll tell you, the markets would love it. i think ted cruz in the end will love it. mike lee, the holdouts and rand paul. rand paul is a smart guy. he's a doctor. he knows the insides of this business better than most people. he has to at some point understand that, you know, okay, he's going...