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It would stop medicaid expansion and require those who are able-bodied to work. it would include refundable tax credits for those who don't receive insurance from their employers. it would expand health savings accounts designed to give consumers greater choice and flexibility in buying coverage and it would defund planned parenthood for one year, blocking more than 500 million federal dollars. >> our bill rescues families by focusing on lower premiums and putting people back in charge of their health care decisions. >> michigan congressman offered an amendment yesterday that would provide $8 ...

Sufficient. sean spicer when he was asked about this at the white house yesterday said well, i don't know how you could possibly trust a projection that all these people's premium will go up because there's no way to project what's going to happen. we didn't know enough specifics about the bill. if that's the case it's hard to make the case to the public and to members who may be on the fence how their constitch wepts will be affected by this, will they pay a political price for supporting it that no, it's going to be fine. people will be better off, they're going to pay less and have more acc...

It's 160 plus pages. yes, many people can read that very easily and have read it over the last month and a half. this amendment that came out at 8:00 last night is nowhere near 100 pages. i would say nowhere near ten pages. it can be easy read, easily debated. what we're talking about now is finding a solution that is going to aress the 60 million people in the country thattill don't have coverage or can't afford to use the coverage they have. that is what we are doing today. >> there are several news outlets, as you know, congressman, reporting today that some members of your group, the tuesd...

Bill. why not wait until there is a score before there is an analysis and you have a better idea of what this bill might actually accomplish? >> well, look, this bill has been debated two years ago. now it's been changed by a number of amendments. the amendments are the only things we're talking about. the amendments actually make it a little better. in my mind they help those that are going to need the safety net which i think is important. so again, i think what we need to do is this is process, process, process. as i've said so many times, i'm a businessman. a businessman wants to see thing...

All know, prevention is much cheaper than treating chronic diseases. so in this discussion, i could echo what all the analyses have said. the premiums are going to go up, the access is going to go down, there is a limitation that this is a drop in the bucket of what the cost burden is going to be. but i think the larger discussion not being addressed here are all the other things that we're not doing to make a dent in the health care costs in this country. prescription drug kocoverage, a the layers between doctor and patient coverage. >> 175 say yes, 18 says no. dr. torres, there is a lot of t...