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This massive piece of legislation seeks to restructure our economy is being written behind closed doors without input by anyone in an effort to jam it past not only the senate but the american people. >> that was senate majority leader describing with accuracy what he is now running to pass the health care bill. those comments weroctober of 2009 and he's talking about obamacare. there was tons of public input and more than a year of hearings. by contrast mcconnell is writing his bill in secrecy excluding democrats and the public. l.a. times reports 15 patient groups asked mcdonl office to meet...

Moving forward the way it is say the senate wrap their minds around all this, who are the biggest losers in america based on this? >> so i think -- this is a bill that impacts so many people. half the population has a pre-existing condition. i think all those people are extremely worried. we're all seeing them on twitter and all over the level of energy and intensity is probably higher than even i would have guessed. secondly people who are older, my age, 50, once you get to 50, there's an age tax in this bill that makes the cost of premiums shoot up and tax credits to go down for people with ...

Defunding, however temporary of planneds parenthood, the age tax, higher premiums for those between 60 and 64 all of those provisions are causing consternation between democrats and republicans in the house. this will be a long and detailed process. then, if it does pass the senate, a little schoolhouse rook for you, the senate has to hammer out something and it is a it has to be identity for it to become law. dr. john torres. some of the winners and losers, if you will. we have opposition from patient groups, hobble groups, let's talk about the impact. >> and the opposition is essentially a w...

Of it. we know that the american medical association, we know the aarp is against it. but you have at least ten patient groups including those representing cancer patients, as we're waiting to see members of congress who have come out against this hooflt are going to express their concern about what it might mean for people with pre-existing conditions. the senate won't do anything until they get cbo score. as democrats expect the news is bad, if the headlines again are as they were in march the first time this came around, unsee the problem this is will cause. having said that, they're gettin...

And i do think it is a risky strategy, just as for the democrats to pass something and once you sort of own that vote and legislation find out oh, this was an unintended effect i didn't realize what happened. >> but it is remarkable. patient groups, hospitals, doctors, aarp, all of them against this bill. you rarely see such a collective force of lobbying against the legislation that looks like it's bound to pass and we know how high risk pools work. they work poorly. $8 billion to high risk pools is nothing compared to the $880 billion taken out of medicaid. like less than 1% of the money tak...