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I would say it is important to look at health care, the palmer amendment added $15 million, the base, $115 billion, all of which were designed to protect people. i think while insurance premiums would go up, the high risk bills are there to protect the premium ts. so i think the debate has a long way to go. >> you were pretty critical of your former south carolina colleague nick mulvany that they put out in the budget that claimed the budget in three years. >> you heard stan colander at the tail end there, his explanation of it. how unrealistic do you think this number is? >> completely unreal...

Ended up offering people health care insurance. to understand what today's vote means, i'm going to bring in stan colander, national director of financial communication at corvis group, but his twitter handle is the budget guy, which gives you a hint that he's the geekiest budget guy i know. explain why the budget is a mechanism to repeal obamacare? >> because it's convenient. essentially it allows the senate to debate, as it did earlier in the week, first the budget and then the bill that would implement the repeal of obamacare without a filibuster. it specifically removes the filibuster as a...

Bipartisan support. might have. inste instead, you've got this situation where you're going to use partisan support to disenact something that you had enacted several years ago. it's the worst way of doing it. >> this bill has passed, 227-198. along partisan lines. in is an interesting point you were making, stan. this is the chickens coming home to roost. if you didn't go into it in a partisan fashion, it's going to be undone in a partisan fashion. >> that's probably right. i think that's a lot of what you're seeing here. it's not so much that republicans care about the type of health care th...

Using the same mechanism to repeal it that democrats used to pass it. >> that's important to understand. the republicans are not using a trick the democrats did not use to get obamacare. >> no. in fact, it's been used for a variety of pumps, to increase and decrease the deficit. clearly, this was not intended when the budget act was put together in '74. >> breaking news now is while this bill has not been officially declared passed, it has met the necessary threshold to begin the repeal of obamacare. stan, the problem here, i'm just going to let my control room know, if you need me to stop tal...