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Conditions so in theory they're designed to help avoid coverage but critics say that the new funding isn't going to go far enough. especially if many states wind up applying for the waivers. giving you an example here. the kaiser family foundation estimates an adequate high risk pool would cost $25 billion per year and that $8 billion would cover only a few hundred thousand people. 35 states ran them before obamacare and republicans defend them as a way to cover this separately and lower premiums for healthy consumers but they have a checkered past. they were underfunded and charged high premi...

Care for people with preexisting conditions is to cover people with the most serious medical needs in separate tools that are paid on the blauder shoulders of the taxpayer, not by other policy holders. that's basically what my amendment does. >> at the heart of this, right, the president said today in the rose garden, you were all there, that premiums would come down and duktdblees would come down. you're now saying the same thing but is that true? it doesn't seem it's going to be true for everybody. that's not how the math works, if you have an open insurance market, which is what they're cre...

On healthcare, and now they've added $8 billion to this, so it doesn't give the savings they happen. >> but the idea is the reason you have the option for state school waivers that would allow them to suspend or the community rating. in other words, you could charge people more money. that's kmael the danger, someone having a pre-existing condition would have to pay more money if their coverage ever lapses. but the reason you do that is so you have this high risk pool with people who have pre-existing conditions so that everybody else in the is main market where there's competition which would...

Preconditions thing? >> yeah, i think the conservatives ran on the notion of pulling up obama care by the roots and having a perfect free market sin. that is a lot of money, and part of the thing was they were spending too much money on health care and now they added $8 billion. >> no, but the idea is the reason you have the option for states to apply for raifrs it you would allow them to suspend -- you could charge people more money. that is the danger. they would have to pay more money if their coverage lapses, but you do that so you have a high risk pool that has

Especially if many states a ply for waivers. the kaiser family foundation estimates an adequate high risk pool would cost $25 billion a year and that $8 billion would cover only a few hundred thousand people. 35 states ran high risk pools before obamacare and republicans defend them as a way to cover this separately and lower premiums for healthy consumers and have long waiting lists. and in 2011 they cover 26,000 people. that's a fraction of the americans that have pre-existing conditions. they only pay for half of the $2.6 billion racked up in claims and four states cover to $1.2 billion dif...