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Senate. we've already had one here. with these modifications, modifications in the senate, we'll be able to address that. good point. >> mark halperin? >> congressman, we've been through this before. i know you think the system will be better but who are the losers in your district? who are the people that will be worse off than they are today if this were the law of the land? >> 74% of the people i served when the first bill came out that would have been worse off. based on the bill we have today, i don't see any losers. here is what we're going to do. not only are we going to have a high ris...

Winners. there are a lot of losers. >> here's a chart put out by the center for american progre, a progressive think tank. it shows how much more a year some with certai pre-conditions, existing conditions, might have to pay compared to a healthy 40-year-old person. for example, someone with metastatic cancer would pay more than $140,000 a year. some with depression would pay an extra $8,500. someone with asthma would pay more than $4,000 more. i think diabetes is about $5,000, which matters to me. these are real differences. in other words, they've been throwing those people into a high risk ...

Functioning insurance market for everyone else. >> so -- so do they remain in that pool their entire lives? say figure you have a preexisting condition, then you can't get insurance? you remain in this special pool? >> you would remain in this high risk pool for your life. we've had that before and it's massively more expensive and the governments say we can't afford to do that and -- >> hold on, don. let me make the alternative argument that when you put everybody in the insurance pool, we all know what happens is healthy people -- the thing is going to crumble only if republicans allow it to...

Conditions are covered in the bill. they always have been. we talked about that before. states have the right to receive a waiver. if someone has continuous coverage that's never gonna be an issue. regardless of no circumstance. if someone chose not to have coverage for 63 days or more and they were in a state that opted out and they had a preexisting condition and they were put into a high risk pool, then we validated an additional $8 billion to help lower costs. so for someone to know how many people that is, what number of states are going to receive a waiver, ask for and receive a waiver, ...

You described the vote count. kelly o'donnell described that two member who's were previously as of yesterday, a no to. republican members. brought down the white house. came away with $8 million for more individuals with pre-existing conditions to throw into that high risk pool. they changed their minds, publicly declared in the driveway that they would go along with it. still unclear how many votes they have. i am standing on the first floor of the capitol. an area known as the row of columns. many here, mike pence, his third consecutive day, trims to the capitol, trying to twist arms, bring...