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Talking about, the most recent issue happening, is the amendment, the meadows-mcarthur amendment. do you think that will be enough to get everything passed? >> yeah, you know, in addition to mark talking with tom, i think there was also dave swiek earth got together with gary palmer. that high risk pool, that extra piece that maybe is the reinsurance piece was critical also. the other thing, the essential health benefits. heather, there was so much that went into it. number one on my priority list is getting back to congress and making sure there's not a government shutdown. that's looming in ...

This brings us closer to the final agreement that we all want to achieve. this idea was offered by two of our most conservative members, gary palmer and dave schweikert but embraced by a people representing all corners of our conference as you can see by a few of the members who are here today. i would let the authors speak more about it but let me just say briefly this amendment would create a new federal risk sharing program. it a high risk pool that will lower costs for people with preexisting conditions and lower costs for everyone else and the authors will go into more detail. following v...

Today before house members leave for their two-week recess. i am told by a white house official the goal is to add an amendment on high risk pool. that has to do with subs ziez -- subsidizing the severely ill in that category. it sounds like they're hoping for a vote today. i am told house leaders will be meeting out west. it sounds like the white house is really trying to be able to say they've made some action before the house leave force vesey. >> joe -- >> mark halperin has been very busy, go ahead, micah. >> i was thinking since they were effective, it's so food this is his big lump of co...

Buy that insurance. >> congressman rooney, thank you very much. >> thanks for having me on. >> now turn to tim ryan of ohio who opposes the bill. thank you for staying late as well. your reaction to what you just heard from your colleague on the right? >> absolutely no evidence for what the congressman was saying. zero. defies what the cbo said, said premiums still go up dramatically, just maybe a little bit less and kicking off 24 million people and defies basic logic, taking healthy people out of the risk pool and common sense will tell you if the risk pool is full of older sicker people, pr...

Republicans offer rather than saying that insurance rates are going down because they're not. >> well, premiums went up about 60% on average for about everybody who has been notice individual market and for some much more than that. and the reason is they allow the risk pools to dump their sick people into this market and allow the city of detroit to dump 8,000 people into this market. >> let me stop you there. that's exactly the topic i want to get in. how do you do this without creating a bigger risk pool? >> you don't allow them to dump sick people into this tiny little market. i helped pet...