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Economic agenda. >> a key to that agenda is repealing obamacare. one bill already passed the house. now it's the senate's turn, which is where we start. after so much secrecy, republicans in the senate finally came out with their own draft to the health care bill to owned obamacare. here's what the bill changes. medicaid expansion to millions of lower income americans gets phased out. states have the flexibility to wave coverage of essential health benefits. that's the list of more than a dozen things like pregnancy coverage, mental health, emergency services that obamacare mandates that every...

Bills on three key requirements? >> i think the bill is similar. they do a good job of cutting obamacare taxes. if you keep obamacare spending and stretch it out, you are going to have spending without the revenue to pay for it so that makes the debt worse. in the current republican bill as it stands, they repeal out of regulations. you have to have pregnancy coverage and dental and vision and all that. if you tell people you can wait until you are sick to buy insurance, that's what happens. you get the rising prices. i don't think we fixed that except republicans say we are going to fix it by...

Lawmakers are talk about this bill failing by a big margin because at the end of the day it isolated too many members of the republican party. >> thank you. dr. sanjay gupta joins us now. we are talking about the so-called essential health benefits, one of the parts involves maternity coverage? >> yeah, you have that whole list of things that mj just laid out the minimal coverage that people get with their health care, you have choices when you buy your health care but no matter what it's worth looking at again, in-hospital procedures, for example wouldn't be covered under some plans that's a ...

You have to have pregnancy coverage. 75 years old, have to have pregnancy coverage. what that did is added expense and added to the adverse selection that young people didn't want to buy it because of the expense. >> ed: you are a doctor, what is the prescription? you don't have a plan to replace it, tonight, you came with one. >> yeah. i think what we want to do, our goal is still the same. left or right, conservative, eople to we want more p have insurance and more affordable. affordable care act is what obama called it, but it turned out to be unaffordable because he loaded it with some new...

Insurance company has to cover. whether you are married or not you have to have pregnancy coverage or whether you are even having kids anymore. 75 years old, have to have pregnancy coverage. that added expense and added to the selection that young people didn't want to buy because of the expense. >> ed: you are a doctor, what is the prescription? you don't have a plan to replace it, tonight, you came with white. >> our goal is the same. left or right, conservative, liberal, we want more people to have insurance and more affordable. affordable care act is what obama called it, but it turned out...