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Is crafted, your lower premium probably gets you less coverage. >> yeah. definitely. i think the other important thing to keep an eye on too is the premiums are part of the story what people who are actually buying the insurance care most about is what they're going to be paying out of their pockets. and while we may see some of premiums go down on average, it is really dependent on people's circumstances, there will be most likely receiving less money and federal assistance to purchase their premiums, and certainly for the older people paying a lot more in premiums under this bill than they d...

Constituents and the great irony, of course, is this whole thing is as some of the architects of obamacare has said, the bill doesn't actually repeal or replace obamacare. in some places it keeps in place some of the worst parts of obamacare. it just doesn't spend any money on some of the folks who need help getting access to care. so you keep the core architecture in place and in some ways it's the worst of both possible worlds and i think to call it even a repeal of obamacare is inaccurate at this stage. >> an issue that you're passionate about. we talked about here, combatting opioid addict...

Medicaid, but unfortunately, the choices that this republican health care bill makes both the house version and the senate version is to cut taxes, primarily for wealthy americans instead of helping some of the lower income and working-class americans afford their health insurance, and i think that's the fundamental flaw. >> do you think that the fact that the gop healthcare bill, at least the house bill is more unpopular than obamacare will have an impact on how the gop senators and eventually house members vote on this? >> it's a really tough question. you would think that it would have a si...

Republicans have been vowing to repeal and replace it and that is part of the argument that the president is likely to make to the senators that he's talking to and calling them was a koch brothers event and talked to senate whip john cornyn who acknowledged it was going to be close and i talked to a senior white house official who said it was going to be a rocky week and a lot to walk for. >> athena jones, on top of it. and let's talk about the race to repeal obamacare. joining us, senior reporter, and stephen colinson and how many people could lose insurance and highway much this plan could ...

Obamacare is collapsing every day. i was in the hospital yesterday talking to doctors and nurses and patients. there is an urgency to act. we are down to one company providing insurance in wyoming prices have skyrocketed. people are asking for stabilizing insurance markets. senator durbin does want to talk about the fact that in illinois they are way down in the number of people even self-insurance and prices are way up. but we want to eliminate the mandates. they have divided government approved product. get rid of all of the taxes. focus on the fact that this is about healthcare for people w...