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Get waivers from the community rating, does that achieve your promise of protecting people with pre-existing conditions? >> if you have a big pool, think about exxon mobile which probably has about 50,000 em moi yees and they are all in this plan with their families and spouse and children. if 20 people get liver transplants or other expensive illnesses it doesn't matter. within that big 50,000 risk pool, the expense that is associated with a very expensive procedure is spread out among the many, the younger, the healthier. if we could expand the risk pool, we take care of those with pre-exist...

Gathering information. i think our states are looking forward to the opportunity. i had a phone call yesterday from a state legislator who said you know, we've waited a long time to see medicaid block granted back to the states. >> can you flpledge, though, ca you say to people who are worried who have pre-existing conditions, can you say to them that they do not need to worry about their premiums rising? can you pledge that will not happen? >> i think that individuals are going to be very pleased with the options that are there. you can look at the -- >> but what about people, what about indi...

Are totally ignoring what the process is going to be. the process is that moving forward the senate will write its own bill and attempt to address those concerns you have laid out, that president trump laid out in the campaign. susan collins and four other co-sponsors came up with the patient freedom act. we take care of people with pre-existing conditions. we do it by expanding the risk pool so that those who are sicker, if you will, are in a pool of those who are younger and healthier. it works. we have a plan on how to address that. i personally will be working on that plan. >> let's go dow...

In 2011, 35 states used some variation of this high risk pool method. for my audience, throws the states on yellow states with high risk pools kons sfwoogs 2%. nongroup is if you're not part of a company or you're not part of a group policy. an individual policy. in florida it was much lower. >> is there any reason why, if states elect to take this waiver, they don't to have cover everybody with pre-existing conditions, that the numbers would be better now than in 2011 or before that? >> i can't imagine any scenario under which they would be. what will happen is these people will be without co...

Andrew reuben in my last segment. here's a plan who can help me get into it a little more. charlie crist from florida. he was a governor in florida that did have a high risk pool. you're coming at this from a unique position. your state used high risk pools. in 2011, 0.02% of floridians not enrolled in a group market like i am because i work for somebody were part of a high risk pool. that seems like a very low number. >> i think it is a low number because who wantso be in a high risk pool? what we have now is working. it is not perfect as you just discussed in the last segment. what we have u...