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People with catastrophic illnesses you lower the prices for everybody else. 10% of the people in wisconsin risk pool -- 10% of the people wisconsin, the orr people in the individual market had much cheaper healthcare, more choices and lower premiums. that's what we're proposing to do. have funds for the catastrophic people with illnesses. if we say we'll directly support those, 8 to 10% of more than americans what had a catastrophic illnesses -- we got the best quarterer back in america selling us health insurance. so i think what we have offered, make sure we fulfill the objective we all want...

Back to health care for a minute. debbie stabenow has introduced a bill that was aus ensibly to take the highest risk pool in the private market and put it into the medicare market making it the lowest risk pool in the medicare market as a way to get pressures off premiums. could you support something like that? >> well, i haven't seen the senator's bill, to be fair, but part of me is skeptical about anything that expands medicare right now, simply because the system is going broke. we although to fick the one we have. i mean, everybody in america pays medicare taxes once you go to work. only ...

We're trying to fix. we obviously know that the insurance markets have trouble and that we have a skewed system where younger people, healthier people pay a great deal for health insurance because they're in the same risk pool with older people with more chronic conditions. that's a problem i think we all can recognize and fix together. if we start from the starting point of what's the problem. the health care bill got off on the wrong foot because the problem they were trying to fix was a political problem. i have seen nothing but broad reach across the aisle on what are we going to do to sta...

To make these payments. they have been making them on a month-to-month basis, but their continued threats to pull the plug on these payments is what insurance companies are telling us is going to lead to a big rise in their premiums. that along with the fact the trump administration has threatened not to enforce the individual mandate, what i call the social responsibility provision, the idea that everybody needs to be in the insurance pool. those two things are within the control of the administration. >> right. >> they should not sabotage the system. >> so as you and i have discussed, really...

Point, let's make sure we fund the subsidies. let's make sure we mandate that folks stay in the market place so the risk pool is a risk pool that's workable. >> dan hilferty, thank you, i appreciate it. >> thank you, michael. >> i know there's a lot of feedback on twitter and my facebook page. let's see what we got. smerconish, let's ask ourselves if a tax hike to pay for single payer health care would be more than our current insurance premiums. i sure hope that people were paying attention to what health care ceo, elected by his peers, to handle the situation with white house and congress ju...