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Conservative and moderate republicans who are on the fence to get the 216 votes needed for the bill to pass. >> every change we make conforms to the senate rules, which we have to play by. >> now the bill allows states option to receive medicaid funding as a block grant instead of a set amount per enrollie, and it allows states to allow able bodied recipients to work for their insurance and aims to repeal obama tax credits this year instead of 2018, and it sets aside $75 billion in tax credits to help seniors buy their own policies after analyst predicted big cost increases for older americans...

Trump -- when i was at cnn, i interviewed him when he said, any day now my investigators are coming back from hawaii with evidence that barack obama is a kenyan-born muslim. you guys kind of got caught in this. he does this. he didn't apologize last time. he's not going to apologize today. those folks in the white house press room are going to ask for that. >> exactly. again, this is where this is all a distraction. thk whatmp does not want do is get in the middle of the health cardebate. he doesn't want to have to explain his budget in any detail. this is an amazing distraction for him partic...

State, the federal money to help changes too. not anymore. under the trump plan each state would receive a set amount of money each year and there would be plan caps for federal funding for all of this over time. so they have to work it out as best they can. as much as anything else, this provision is where critics think a lot of people could fall through the cracks and wind up uninsured again. what's going to keep people in the system? if you let your insurance policy lapse under the trump plan, the new plan would allow insurers to sock you with a 30% surcharge. one last thing a nod to social...

Us. tom? >> hey, don. the trump plan keeps several of the most popular parts of obamacare. you can still keep your kids under your coverage until the age of 26. you can't be denied insurance because of pre-existing conditions and there are no annual or life-time limits on insurance benefits. but it also drops some key components of obamacare. the individual mandate which says everyone has to be assured or pay a penalty would be gone so would the employer mandate. and government subsidies to help cover the out of pocket expenses for people would be replaced by refundable tax credits for those f...

It eliminates the individual mandate and replacing with a new set of initiatives. including the replacement of subsidy of tax credits. it would also eliminate the medicaid expansion. states would receive a set amount of money from the federal government every year. >> although the bill might be branded as repeal, it keeps several popular components of obamacare. children can remain on the parents plan until age 26 and allows people with pre-existing conditions to continue coverage through the most popular provisions of obamacare. one change getting push back. insurers would be allowed to hike ...