the goal of the cruz amendment, add more competition and to drive down premiums. and people will say that that could happen for those who are healthier, who are younger, who don't need these comprehensive packages, but everything i've heard from the experts say that people with pre-existing conditions are going to lose. their premiums are going to skyrocket. >> well, as you and i have talked about before, i am somebody with a pre-existing condition. i was a cancer survivor. we want to make sure people with pre-existing conditions are covered. but if you don't break down the way that the obamacare model is structured and if you don't break it out of a single risk pool, you cannot possible drive the prices down. what happened was senator cruz's amendment and what senator lee and he were working on was creating an environment where you could get folks in a high risk pool but then break it down so people could have competitive plans. but the senator leadership left