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Experts and i've studied this the last two months say we need close to $200 billion to be able to pay for the high risk pool. we're going to charge seniors five times more. seniors aren't people in the 50s. this is a bad bill. i wish it the -- this isn't a war between republicans and democrats. it's about real people's lives out there. i hear from them every ta. is the affordable care act perfect? no. let's work together to fix those little problems and not destroy a bill that is a major health care coverage for too many americans. >> you mentioned preexisting conditions. and we've talked abou...

Americans. >> well, the last thing we want is a false narrative, especially as it relates to americans' health and the center for american progress says under this plan, the estimated premiums for the following conditions, i just want to walk through this, they're going to sky rocket. they've said asthma will go up by 4 grand, pregnancy 17,000, arthritis, 26,000, and cancer, and i am glad to hear that your mom was able to get the treatment she needed but cancer is going to jack what people pay $140,000. people don't have that. how can republicans say this bill protects people with preexisting ...

Calling or discussing with democrats behind closed doors and without the information that we need to truly analyze whether this is good or bad. listen, let's not kid ourselves. this bill is worse than a sham. this is worse than a sugar pill. this is downright ugly. . is poison. this is going to allow private health insurance companies to drop people with preexisting illnesses, diabetes, asthma, any other condition that they have and say now, we can drop you because you can go to the high risk pool. the high risk pool is a high cost pool, meaning that they're not going to get the coverage and t...

Potatoes. in fairness, there's $130 billion in the plan now for things like this. >> right. >> so they're about $190 billion short. let's put it that way. >> more or less. just $190 billion. >> more or less. >> part of the issue here, these high-risk pools which essentially is what they're talking about, right? so the idea is you're not in the same risk pool with everyone else. you have diabetes. you have cancer. you have a pre-existing condition. you go into this separate pool. this is a model that's been tried from a policy standpoint numerous times. >> this is why we got obamacare frankly b...

For decades. even if they got a waiver from obamacare, it wouldn't affect anybody with pre-existing conditions. it's a weird poll testing complaint of convenience rather than dealing with the actual issues about getting more people insured. >> bret: here is raul labrador on that issue. >> you in the media have been reporting that were not taking care of people with pre-existing conditions, and that's not absolutely -- that's absolutely false. our bill creates what's called an invincible risk pool where everyone's premiums are going to be going down and some people's premiums are going to be su...