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>> when you say that the insurance companies, they want to be able to rely on the government to pay its share, i believe what you mean the first 3 years of obamacare, if the insurers sign in obamacare system, if you will, if they lost money on premium and the government that was paid would make them whole and if they ended up getting -- >> indeed, so there was a risk-sharing program in the affordable care act that said during the first 3 years and if they've made a lot of money they would pay some of that excess. this is a pretty typical feature of insurance program, it's common in medicaid pr...

The pre-existing limits. states would be able to apply for an unlimited waiver the pre-existing conditions. if they accept that, the state would be obligated to set up a risk-sharing program. so we don't have the details. i know it comes down to the tuesday group, the moderate republicans saying we will not -- there must be -- we must comfortable people with pre-existing conditions. that has to be there. the how freedom caucus doesn't feel the same way. >> bill: you heard the president say yesterday, he says the plans gets better and better. does it appear that's the case? >> i don't know. we ...

We have gotten to a point where we have got a bill that's ready to put through the reconciliation process and i'm excited about it. arthel: lower premium the broad access to care. is that something you would vote for? >> i voted for the original bill that was pulled. but think about the amendments that have been added. we had an amendment added this last week. it will -- it proposes an individual risk sharing pool, individual risk sharing program that will save us money and going to result in more people -- more lives covered. and it's a great idea. great amendment that's modeled after a progr...

Our pledge to the country. i'd ask the majority leader to speak. >> good morning. i think the results of the past couple weeks have been progress, valuable progress. from every aspect and caucus and group is united around this amendment. every day we move closer and closer to finding agreement in the best way to repeal and replace obamacare. you can already see some of the result. that's why today the rules committee is going to meet to add an amendment to the american health care act. i want to be clear we still have more work to do but the amendment by allocating funds to a risk-sharing prog...

Progress. it will help us build momentum for delivering on our pledge to the country. i would like to ask the majority leader to speak if we could. >> thank you speaker. thank you all for being here and good morning. the results of the past couple weeks have been progress. valuable progress. i think that shows who is standing behind us. it's a micro cause of conference. every aspect and every caucus and group is here today being united. each and every day we move closer and closer to finding agreement in the best way to repeal and replace obamacare. you can already see some of the results. tha...