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Bipartisan zip around here to try and in fact enforce, make whole, his promise that he has said over and over and over again. that's what this bill does. >> so lawmakers we return home after saying to their constituents or being able to say, they passed something to try to allow them to keep their insurance. it seems up likely the senate -- unlikely the senate will take it up after president obama threatened to veto it. >> it can be dull in the house but not today. >> lawmakers on both sides are frustrated after getting a lot of angry phone calls and e-mails from constituents who are upset abo...

He needs the young and the healthy to pay the extra stuff. they need them to pay the higher than they would otherwise so that can subsidize the older and the sick. so his intent is that it shouldn't happen. if he hadn't done that, shift the blame without really changing what happens on the ground, who gets his policy or not, there would have been 100 democrats or 120. that would have been a huge embarrassment. it would have been a collapse. and it would have been a complete -- >> that would have been more than half the democrats in the house caucus. >> and that would have happened. that's why ...

>> well, you know, here's the point. this bill was passed in march of 2010, shep. and the insurance companies and the insurance regulators for the last three and a half years have been working on the basis of trying to make this all work. based on the mandates and the changes that were in obamacare. now the president comes out in the middle of november, 0 month -- less than a month before the insurance companies have to set, if you're going to get a policy on january 1st january 1st they have to decide by december 15th. and he says all those policies that were absolutely substandard, couldn't ...

The impact on insurance companies, wendell golar on the white house strategy. we begin with chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel on capitol hill where there was lots of action today. good evening, mike. >> reporter: chris, good evening. despite a veto threat, republicans and a few dozen democrats passed a bill to honor a promise they say president obama did not keep. >> the bill is passed. >> reporter: by a 261-157 vote including 39 democrats supporting it, the house passed energy and commerce chairman fred upton's keep your health care act. >> our straightforward one-page bill says ...

Right solution. they will go back to the battle days and allow the old plans to be in effect. if you have a preexisting condition that excludes you and out of pocket cost that xoeds the cap they will stop covering and if you have cancer, they can throw you off of the roles, and so all of that his components in the upton bill that is not just in compliance with the rest of the affordable care act but what republicans say they don't like. >> it is more than that. it is purely politics that is identified in the wall street journal. republican fred upton's bill would allow insurers to sell policie...