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Cold. >> i don't want to lose sight of some other important issues facing the country. we have richard burr who said yesterday he does not see an obamacare replacement plan being passed this year. if it's does not happen this year, when does it happen? that sounds like a concession of a stalemate than call of a new strategy. >> well, ben sasse, richard burr's -- the bill that passed out of the house is extremely popular. the cbo says it would leave 23 million more people without health insurance, raise costs on people who are older and needier and sicker. and while giving a tax cut for people ...

I think i just answered your question. >> reporter: your side really embraced that into 23 million. >> speaker ryan: i just explained it. >> reporter: they did find that premiums on average would go down, but it also said that they believe there might not be any premium access. >> speaker ryan: obviously i disagree with that. >> reporter: it doesn't show up for older and sicker. >> speaker ryan: if a state takes a waiver, that in order to get that waiver, it has to have a risk system in place. we have experience with this where i come from. we have a risk pool. a state has to have a risk syste...

Around. a man won't have to buy something that includes marnitcoverage. what's wrong wh that? >> so, ali covered it really nicely by covering the risk pool. it's really important to remember that you could try to say, well, we could shop around and get lower plans. this is exactly what we had before 2010 when you'll remember that people shopped around and actually got plans that had barely any coverage. and then when they really need haesh health care, because we can never predict when we need health care, they found those cheaper insurance plans didn't cover it. let me say about the whole iss...

Bill. and if you look at three basic component, it's hard to understand why any republican would support it after a populist election put donald trump in office. you've got massive tax cuts for the wealthy. an $880 billion cut to medicaid. that's the health care services for the poor and disabled. and then essentially an obamacare-lite that tilts towards the young, healthy and wealthy and way from the older and poorer and sicker. none of those things match up with the pop liss rhetoric of donald trump on the campaign trail. and i think republicans right now are stuck between the no fixed princ...

But the overwhelming majority of americans don't support this bill. and if you look at three basic component, it's hard to understand why any republican would support it after a populist election put donald trump in office. you've got massive tax cuts for the wealthy. an $880 billion cut to medicaid. that's the health care services for the poor and disabled. and then essentially an obamacare-lite that tilts towards the young, healthy and wealthy and way from the older and poorer and sicker. none of those things match up with the pop liss rhetoric of donald trump on the campaign trail. and i th...