essential health benefits, if you don t want pediatric ophthalmology. the tax credit which you can argue whether that s a good way to do it or not. the tax credit would give you resource and give you that tax benefit that employers have that might make that look different. i don t know that it would. if my insurance doesn t go up because i have a pre-existing condition though, see what i m saying. since i have a pre-existing condition. speaking of the way obama sold it, trump is going to step all over republicans by selling it the same way. he said you re premiums are going to go down and deductibles. if you like your doctor you re going to keep your doctor. thanks one and all for being here. appreciate it. an armored vehicle plowing into a crowd of protesters as the deadly unrest grows in venezuela, but will the government back off any time soon? plus, the votes that could be felt around the world. another divided country is making a decision and one american president i
allow discrimination on individuals based on pre-existing conditions, billy might have the to pay $40,000, $50,000 a year for insurance. that s right. jimmy kimmel can do that and most people can t do that, so when you have someone like charles krauthammer going on tv and predicting there s going to be a single payer system, you know, within seven years it tells you on some level where this debate is heading and whether the debate heads there now when this bill goes to the senate before the mid terms or whether the senate actually acts on a bill and then this rears its head back in time for next presidential election, look, somewhere between like a quarter and a third of americans in many states have pre-existing everything is a pre-existing condition, not just cancer, like diabetes, allergies, depression. if you ve been rape it had counts as a pre-existing conditions in many insurance companies. there will hit a threshold where so many americans have a xe existing condition an
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kind of thing, those are pre-existing conditions. don t conflate with the actual numbers on the ground but as a political matter, the way americans perceive it does matter, and for those americans who might fall through the cracks. which is why i want to tell the truth about it. here s the question though. all these people, all these americans with pre-existing conditions, who have severe health problems or need insurance and can t be discriminated on with a $50,000 a year premiums, someone is going to pay for them. so the question is is it going to be people like you two whose insurance premiums went up during obamacare, or is it going to be the government with these high-risk pools? i think that s the trade-off that people aren t and there are always trade-offs. that s how i want to talk about this because it is a question of who foots the bill for these things? think one thing that is problematic in the individual market right now is that folks who do not have the pre-existi
leverage to bring prices down and then republicans could be for something positive that would get people insurance. without something positive, i think we re offering them, you know, obamacare with santa claus. we re offering half as much. we re going to be santa claus light. i don t know how that is a winning thing for the american people. neil: you re a doctor by training. some cushions are build in, but should they? a higher risk pool of potential patients. the coverage is not denied them, but they will pay potentially more. here s the interesting thing. if you work for general motors and your wife gets breast cancer, you don t pay more. if you re a plumber and you re wife gets breast cancer, your rate doesn t go up.