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Or eliminate essential benefits and the pre-existing policy which was the key to this final comp p compromise. that will not become law exactly but it does set a tone for this political debate in which the republicans are voting to take things away from people. >> and you look also at the pre-existing cons component was the thing that got this over the finish line with the compromise as of yesterday. at least in the house. but that is going to be the area for the most debate. democrats did a pretty bad job at messaging the affordable care act and what it was doing and why it was good. pre-exis...

Republicans slammed democrats for jamming through obamacare years ago without knowing what's in it. paul ryan was one of those folks slamming democrats. just listen to this. >> i don't think we should pass bills we haven't read that we don't know what it costs. if you rush this through before anybody even knows what it is, that's not good democracy. that's not doing our work for our constituents. we shouldn't rush this thing through just to rush it through for artificial deadline. let's get this done right. >> that was from 2009. no cbo score, no committee meetings. how is this not the same th...

Insurance companies like having the ability to do that. also obamacare told insurance companies you have to include certain things in your policies. "x," "y," "z," they had a whole list of things. this new bill that's being considered today tells states look, if you don't want to require insurance companies to include all these things, you don't have to. again, something that insurance companies might find a lot more p palatable. the other thing is if someone doesn't pay their premiums for 63 days, insurance companies can basically charge them whatever they want. so that's another thing that m...

A couple of issues do have these republican lawmakers a little bit uncomfortable. i want to walk through them a little bit. first, is the fact they're going to be taking this vote before there is a cbo score. this is a very big deal. obviously, this is a big piece of legislation and a complicated piece of legislation. we have not had the cbo score this bill since the original bill came out. remember, that was the bill -- that was the score, rather, that said that 24 more million people will be uninsured under this bill than under obamacare in the years to come. and i think that, you know, poli...

One third of the entire country of counties only have one provider and next we are they won't have any. if we do nothing, we're going to hear a very loud crowd that people are not having health care. we cannot ignore this problem. they've got to stop playing politics. we can solve this problem and this is the first start of making that happen. >> but you know and you can admit that both sides play politics. they are doing to you what you did to them successfully when obamacare passed which is to basically, you know, look at some of the potentially pretty scary things that could happen. take pr...