medicaid is possibly one of the closest ways in which america gets to a universal healthcare system. but i want to go to the cruz amendment, the idea that bare bones shurps policies that doesn t cover essential health benefits are going to be sold. which means in theory, and i m making the number up, somebody could sell you or me an insurance policy for 10, 20, 50, hundred dollar bucks a month with very little coverage. and that s what healthy people will buy, which means the sick people will be in what is essentially what was before obamacare a high-risk pool or uninsurable. right. and even one more point on that is that the premium kind of tax credits that we talk about, in this version of the bill you will actually be able to use premium tax credits to pay for those catastrophic plans that do not coverage essential hell benefits. so, i mean, think about that. it s exactly set up first of all, the tax credits aren t that