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Reimbursement crisis. >> they are talking about finding people to purchase insurance. >> they need to make sure these risk pools are tampered by throwing millions if not hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants -- not necessarily paying this stuff and california right now, a tentative budget surplus but is all conditional, the economy is staying strong. heather: congress doing pretty good under donald trump, gavin newsom in part can thank donald trump for what he wants to do. >> it is true. we have been in a war of words with trump, declaring he will do everything he can to make california ...

>> you think him responding to you by moving to the right has actually made him more competitive now? >> if president trump is more well liked in nevada from what you've seen in the polls and most of the other states, all the other states beside the real red states. he lost the state by 2%. romney lost by 7, mccain 12. he actually overperformed in this state. he has a plus 2 approval rating in my district. furthermore, if you don't support president trump's poll, is you're not going to get the trump supporters to vote for you. >> i would say the number one issue generically in every house race...

Republican wave year. and now he's finding that the sort of national mood working against him, he's been tacking back pretty hard to the center from being a very proud conservative for a while. he -- he, you know, he's been trying to put more money back into education funding after cutting it for a number of years. he had a video this week saying he wants to protect pre-existing condition coverage for insurance after spending many years talking about repealing baobam obamaca obamacare, possibly replacing the pre-existing protections with risk pools. so he knows he's in trouble. and he's fighti...

Cancer patients, when they get a cancer diagnose, they found out they were not covered for things they thought they were going to be covered for. >> reporter: critics say it could divide risk pools, with younger people opting for short-term plans, while driving up premiums on obamacare plans, because they have older, sicker patients. >> the better solution would be to have everybody in the same insurance pool. >> reporter: now, the trump administration predicts about 200,000 americans will switch from obamacare to these extended short-term plans. these extended plans will be available in octob...

Be covered for. that's the problem. >> reporter: critics fear the alternative plans could divide insurance risk pools. with younger healthier people opting for short-term coverage, while driving up premiums on obamacare plans because they have older, sicker patients. >> the better solution would be to have everybody in the same insurance pool. >> nbc's anne thompson joining us now. anne, that was the whole theory behind the obamacare, the american health insurance plan, to have the larger insurance pool. so you, you know, scale back the cost for everyone. >> right, that's why there was individ...