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Do you agree they shouldn't vote on anything -- >> i don't think functionally that should do that because we have a lot of deadlines coming up. i do share nick's sentiment. we can't take nothing for an answer and we cannot allow the status quo in healthcare. healthcare costs are sky rocking k people are losing choices. the bill that we pass in the house is to lower premiums and give people more closures. t way i think that matters the most is we believe risk pools are effective. we had a high risk pool in wisconsin. when i talk about risk pools, we believe as government, federal government, st...

Shouldn't vote on anything until they figure out the repeal and replace for obamacare. do you agree with that? obviously there is the whole debt ceiling issue coming up, cut bullet do c but do you believe -- >> there are deadlines coming up on us. you mentioned s chip. i do share mick's sentiment, which is we can't take nothing for an answer and cannot allow the status quo on health care. health care costs are skyrocketing. people are losing choices. the bill we passed in the house, the whole promise of the bill is to lower premiums and give people more choices. look, the way i think that matt...

As the senate voted, as john mccain walked out and gave the thumbs down, president obama's voice was nowhere to be heard. do you think he should be more of an activist in speaking out on his agenda as we move toward fall? >> i think president obama's voice and his message have been very clear, which is that health care is a right for all and not a privilege for a few. that's why he took the courageous step. it was politically unpopular at the time but it was the right thing to do and he never wavered in that commitment to ensuring access to health care for all. we've gotten so much closer to u...

Collapsing. premiums have sky rocketed. it's certainly within our ability to bring the premium us down. maine did it. they instituted preexisting coverage. they premiums doubled. they didn't repeal it. the sup planted it with invisible higher risk pools. the cut yums premiums in half. >> how do you get it done? you had several iterations and couldn't get it done. what do you think might work in your own party let alone with the democrats. >> it what i've already announced in my committee homeland security, senate oversight committee, we're not the committee of jurisdiction to write lending leg...

Sicker individuals in the risk pools particularly in smaller states. >> we need to adequately fund high-risk pools that doesn't necessarily mean cost-sharing for young and healthy individual who is are having to pay for older individual who is have chronic illnesses and many are self-inflicted. we need positive incentives for preventive medicine and healthy behaviors. i had a patient recently who came in, she had a mass, breast cancer, overweight, i didn't get my screening mammograms because i don't like the feeling of compression of a mem -- mammogram and she has no desire to quitting because...