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>> where could you see the issues in that bill even though you voted yes for it? >> there are several things. one of them, this is one of my big bone of contentions, i said it leaves the skeleton or framework of the affordable care act. subsidies came into play, first time of american history, outside of medicare or medicaid. we would tax citizens, give it to other people to subsidize health care. this bill, american health care act, gets rid of that, repeals it but replaces it with advanceable refundable tax credits. it eat same thing. it is government-controlled health care. we know from jus...

You look, 14 of 23 in the district, clinton voted for it. 466 of 61 vetted democrat in either 16, 12 or 8 voted for it. i think the key is the california contingent. california has been such a reliably blue state. we are used to it being a bystander. but this is ground zero for 2018 election. california benefitted the most from the affordable care act nearly 4 million people gaining coverage decline in insurance rate of over 50% and yet every california republican in the house voted to repeal the law including all seven in districts that hillary clinton carried. some of them by considerable ma...

Claims and frankly republicans saying, like you just -- you just had, the congressman saying, oh, you know, preexisting conditions are taken care of. we have to be accurate and we have to be fair in saying that that's not true. that is just not true. that this bill does not protect people with preexisting kgs in the way that they had been protected of under the affordable care act. i think we have to be very careful and very accurate in terms of what actually is in this bill. and the congressional budget office will help too. >> jackie, real quick, final word, speaker ryan said the opposite of...

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...

That got put in there and it had medicaid reform in there but the safeguard that with the pool of money put in there, the -- >> the $8 billion. >> yes. >> okay, the $8 billion for preexisting conditions. >> so i was left for two conditions, keep affordable care act or repeal the act and 80% -- >> so to reform. >> yes. >> so one of the things that bothered you about the first one is you were looking at numbers, prices go up. how do you know? the cbo, congressional budget office that would tell you if the prices had gone up, they haven't even issued their analysis. >> it was things we heard from...