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>> what i hope and i'm not a congressional forecaster. i hope when people truly see the premiums on the exchange, the coverage they get it will be a stampede of people wanting to go into the exchanges. >> if they don't want to or they extend the stay of execution by a year or two -- >> we are getting into real difficulties. >> what does that mean? >> you have a situation where you have less they will think people in the exchanges, healthier people outside the exchanges maintaining two different risk pools becomes financially costly and difficult for people who are stumping from one to the othe...

Congressional forecaster. i hope when people truly see the premiums on the exchange, the coverage they get it will be a stampede of people wanting to go into the exchanges. >> if they don't want to or they extend the stay of execution by a year or two -- >> we are getting into real difficulties. >> what does that mean? >> you have a situation where you have less they will think people in the exchanges, healthier people outside the exchanges maintaining two different risk pools becomes financially costly and difficult for people who are stumping from one to the other depending on the health sta...

What it boils down to today, we're concerned about the issue of affordability for consumers. >> so are your members going to go along with this so-called fix the president put forward today? >> the decisions are up to state insurance commissioners, as you know. they regulate health insurance marketplaces across the country in 50 states. they will make decisions. some of them have already indicated they are moving in certain directions. but they will be the decision makers here in terms of what are the rules of the game in a particular state. >> is it doable, if you say this is the ninth inning...

The markets blew up. no one wants that. we don't want that. our top priority is to get affordable coverage to all americans. >> did you express these concerns to the white house before the president went public with his plan today? >> well, i think you know us very well. we're not shy about expressing concerns about a range of things, both with the administration and on capitol hill. we're continuing to do that. and we are now looking at the proposal and we want to talk about what the impact is, because we had the same goals consumers have. we want to give them affordable coverage. everyone wa...

Sick. what is going on in oklahoma? what is this risk? >> well, we are very worried about those people because they are the ones who are the sickest. the ones that need health insurance coverage the most. the ones who might have cancer, leukemia, diabetes and heart problems. they are the run ones in the risk pools as they are in many other states. as we know the health insurance exchanges haven't worked the way they were supposed to work. at the end of this year, december 31st, we have over 850 oklahomans in risk of losing insurance and they are the ones who need the health insurance the worse...