thousand people who will benefit. most people will not benefit. >> rick. >> yeah, i would say this. first off, the act of itself of not funding the csrs, i agree with you, it's not going to make premiums lower. >> all right, so we just unmasked the president's justification. false justification. >> no. what the president is doing is saying number one, it's illegal. number two, congress, you have to act to lower premiums. he's done some things that will lower premiums, but the congress needs to do more. and that's the point that ron johnson and mark meadows and a group of republicans are going to put something on the table this week that's going to lower premiums, in exchange for conservatives voting for these cost-sharing reduction payments. if the democrats are serious about trying to lower premiums -- >> mr. santorum -- >> the gentleman you just talked about, they need to do that. >> been waiting seven years for a republican proposal that will lower premiums. there has not been one republican proposal to lower premiums that has been scored by