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Let's talk money here. obama care. >> undermining how the law isser caed out. walt street journal reporting the president is expected to sign an executive order to provide consumers more insurance option. it will allow some americans to buy insurance through association health plans. these plans will also have weaker protections than the obamacare plans. the straegs says association health plans will help lower premiums. of course high costs are a frequent gop compliant about obamacare. but the insurance industry says these plans will actually raise prices by removing healthy consumers from th...

Time for our fact checking segment for fact's sake. on the new cbo score related to the new house health care bill, the house passed plan could see a rewrite in the senate after tough analysis by the non-partisan krocongressional budget office, which is headed by a republican at the moment. the number of uninsured versus had we stayed with affordable care act, 2018, 14 million more will be uninsured. 2020, 19 million more people will be uninsured. out to 2026, 23 million more people will be uninsured versus what would be the case under obamacare. 2026, under obamacare, there'd be 28 million am...

What do we all want? we want everybody who doesn't get health care from either medicare or medicaid or from their job, about 11% of americans, we want them to get access to affordable health care. we think the smart way to do this is don't force young families to overpay for their health insurance because we're finding out they're not. they won't just buy it. let's let people buy insurance that's priced competitively. give people more choice. have more competition. let states be innovative like my state was before obamacare. let's support directly to the people with catastrophic illnesses. sub...

>> last question. >> follow up quickly, nice to see you. >> nice to see you. >> specifically on the -- i don't hang out here often. on the cbo specifically, the language they use when it comes to premiums, despite the additional funding, those sicker americans would face extremely high premiums. how do you ensure the sicker americans with preexisting conditions they won't be priced out and it won't be unaffordable? >> what the cbo report doesn't state is states put their own part of this, as well. this is what this analysis, i think, forgets. which is, we are, for the first time ever, proposin...

What do we want? what do we all want? we want everybody who doesn't get health care from either medicare or medicaid or from their job -- that's about 11% of americans -- we want them, too, to get access to affordable health care, and we think the smart way to do this is don't force young families to overpay for their health insurance, because we're finding out they're not. they won't just buy it. let's let people buy insurance that's priced competitively, give people more choice, have more competition. let states be innovative, like my own state was before obamacare, and then let's direct sup...