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People ahead of you in the line. >> on the question of pre-existing conditions, fred upton and others who were nos and moved over to yes said they changed their vote because adding money to the high risk pool would take care of people with pre-existing conditions. the $8 billion. we've seen high risk pools before, before obamacare, they were around in 35 states. do you believe that money added to the high risk pools is enough to cover are people with pre-existing conditions? >> not even close. $8 billion over five years which i think is where it ended up being. in a country ever 313 million pe...

Million for high risk pools coming in at the last minute as a savior. what you're seeing here is republicans led by paul ryan saying we have two great options. one is we again failed to even bring it to a vote. this is the thing we ran on for seven years that we promised our base we would do. on the other hand you have we bring it to a vote as dana makes a point, the senate is problematic. the cbo score is problematic. donald trump is problematic because he's super inpredi unpredictable. but saying we did this thing that we said we were going to do. >> so, april, you have got this new amendmen...

Obamacare and health policy. do we know what types of pre-existing conditions would qualify someone for the pools. >> the pricey ones, cancers, heart disease, diabetes, but there are also conditions you might not think of. in maryland one state accepted a kid with acne. >> what would happen next for these people? >> well, that remains to be seen. it will depend on whether they live in a state opts to wave these protections. that waiver is actually going to be pretty easy to get. so it's really going to be up to the state because every state would run their own pool. those that opted for the pa...

Planned to provide states to help lower the cost of the new bill. >> let's bring back the professor of history and public affairs at princeton university. good morning to you sir. >> good morning. >> increase $8 billion. not a lot of money when you consider health care in this country. here is how press secretary sean spicer defended what this means for this health care bill. >> if someone chose it and they had a pre-existing condition and put into a high risk pool then we allocated an additional $8 billion over five years to help drive down the costs so for someone to know how many people tha...

Money to make it affordable for folk. >> i would say they're wrong. i believe that markets will work. >> how do you know that? i mean, these are the people -- this is their job to do these numbers. >> congressman, the high pools existed before when there were these markets you were talking about there. when there are high risk pools, generally speaking they were more expensive for the people in them and they cost more for the various government entities than had been predicted. that was under the system you are trying to return to. >> we don't tell the states about that, exactly how to create ...