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You're hearing that from cruz. mike lee went even further and he's one of the guys tasked with drafting it and he says, "i don't know what's in it, i share your frustration." >> i'm in this working group as well. the purpose of the working group isn't to actually write the bill. it is to really discuss all the issues. it is very complex. in two meetings i saw the wide spectrum of opinions within the republican conference trying to fix this mess of obamacare. my suggestion was let's break this into two parts. let's pass something to stabilize the insurance markets that are literally collapsing ...

As they have. are you comfortable with the process being secretive in the senate? >> yeah. i mean, i don't know if it's secretive. they've got a committee of 13 people that represent the people, and then they represent the senators, hopefully, a broad base of the senate. and so, yeah, they're being strategic in the short run before they lay out their bullet points and see how that floats with the public. and so, right now in the short run, i don't see a problem. >> one of the big issues, of course, has been the medicaid expansion issue and about to phase that out. i remember that with a huge p...

Disapprove of how he's handling his job ch only 37% approve. so the president is profoundly underwater. key to republican agenda is the big health care bill. well, 62% disapprove of how the president is handling health care. 57% disapprove of the current house u republican health care plan. this was the subject of a big debate this week. republicans are promised to repeal and replace obamacare. speaker ryan says we have to do this. democrats say the republican plan is a disaster. >> under obamacare, average premiums have gone up by nearly $3,000. this law did not drop premiums by $2500 as prom...

Decisions and have real peace of mind and we can get rid of this claims backlog. lastly, i want to talk about a very important health care report. it's a report from the department of health and human services. it's the aspi data point report. the department of health and human services has released an analysis that says that since obamacare went into effect, average premiums have more than doubled nationwide. since obamacare went into effect, average health care premiums have doubled nationwide. remember, remember when president obama promised that his health care plan would lower the typical...

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...