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This bill has negative impacts on children, on families, on seniors, on people who don't have a whole lot of income. so we can't continue to move forward as a country if we continue to undermine the people who need the support the most. that's why it doesn't make sense for this to move forward in this way. it might get 217 votes, but again, there is a spike in the football at the 50-yard line. thank god we have a united states senate who will get the score and the numbers of exactly what this will cost. we know the original bill was going to take health coverage from more than 20 million peopl...

To put that coalition together because evers has their own best way of doing it. you have to find a way to do it that brings a coalition together with a majority of the house and a majority of the senate to pass it. i look forward to giving the senate that opportunity to make additional reforms. >> so what will the senate do? how will the senate treat this bill? is there a working group that is -- that's already been established as we've heard, again, right now that's jim clyburn, the assistant democratic leader on the floor speaking. senator? >> look, time will tell what we do in the senate. ...

This was the amendment that would add $8 billion over five years to help people with preexisting conditions in states that waive coverage in favor of high risk pools. is that enough money to cover those people? >> absolutely not. it is not nearly enough money in the first two years of the affordable care act, we had a preexisting condition program that allowed people who had preexisting conditions to get coverage and we ran out of money in the fund. that's why it was important for us to have the marketplace and get rid of the provisions that people had to have, couldn't get coverage because of...

Oppose the measure as it stands right now? >> the house republicans have take an bad health care plan and made it even worse and if it does pass out of the house today, there are those of us who are going to continue to speak up about what a bad bill this is. it hasn't, of course, been scored by the congressional budget office because it's been rushed through. but the last scoring that they did on the first proposal, told us that it would increase insurance premium, it would rip health insurance away from millions of americans. in my own state of new hampshire it would take away critical treat...

Experts and i've studied this the last two months say we need close to $200 billion to be able to pay for the high risk pool. we're going to charge seniors five times more. seniors aren't people in the 50s. this is a bad bill. i wish it the -- this isn't a war between republicans and democrats. it's about real people's lives out there. i hear from them every ta. is the affordable care act perfect? no. let's work together to fix those little problems and not destroy a bill that is a major health care coverage for too many americans. >> you mentioned preexisting conditions. and we've talked abou...