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Having the ability to have a balanced risk pool and helping insurance companies who have tomorrow older and sicker people signing up. that was in the original law, not funded by the republicans. it's in both the house and senate bills. it's a great idea. do that. i think we need to take a look at who gets subsidies and more people have said they really need some help. that's a good idea. lower the level of out of pocket costs, do something about drug prices, which every american is complaining about. and is not in the house or senate bill. so there's some definite things that would draw bipart...

At 34 out of 35 developed countries in the world, look at 58% of the world's economies they use universal health care because the best pool is the biggest pool. >> we -- but the best pool you don't have to put high risk people in the pool. you don't do it for auto insurance. you don't need to do it for health insurance. furthermore from the health policy point of view, people who are in that pool have chronic disease. we can treat them with chronic disease management when they're in the pool which is actually good for them and it's good for everyone else who's in the normal risk pool. >> it's ...

Rising premiums. this doesn't address the rising premiums and originally when we need health care reform, we need a health care reform because people are going to the e.r., they had no insurance, they had no preventative care. my husband is a physician. this is a huge problem. you're going to have rural hospitals closing when you have medicaid cut over time. in addition to that, if you don't have a mandate and people don't have to buy insurance, what happens? there are less people on the insurance rules. when the premiums will go up higher. the >> melissa: it's going to happen. if they'd do th...

The rationale is trying to bolster the marketplace in general. this is an incentive for people to not go without coverage, essentially. trying to invent vise people to expand the risk pool, trying to dysincentivize those who might be less healthy. this is something they're done. the cbo score should help reps. it would be excluded, and if you think about the house bill 23 million fewer week -- the hopes is by having this almost on the th

Federal deficit. your response to this score. >> i don't quite understand it. for example, premiums are predicted to go up next year even though we're throwing an additional $15 billion at it. i think i'm told that's because they anticipate the risk pool will be getting bad. the risk pool is already terrible. secondly, as regards the uninsured by 2026, one thing that has been in the phil, which is automatic enrollment. if you automatically enroll, you'll have more folks in the pool than if you had a mandate saying, i'd like to see that model as well. >> after the ceo followed that bill unsuppo...