and having back stop for them minnesota is doing this, i believe. alaska and maine are doing it. and minnesota has applied to do it. they are having trouble getting that waiver. that s one of the reasons we want to make it a little bit easier. just because you separate people in that way that doesn t mean people don t get protections. okay. it just means that the back stop in place is there to give both high cost claimants protection, insurance companies certainty. but then it brings premiums down for everybody else. so this we will certainly maintain the preexisting condition protection. all right. democrats sounds like they are more united around this bill frankly than republicans are. obviously there was a leadership press conference announcing this deal. lamar alexander announced t dean his own, not necessarily with mitch mcconnell, so there is a tonal difference there, can it get through the house? let s get it through the senate committee and the senate first. the
without compromising on the essential health benefits, have some significant flexibility in the way they build their own programs. want to ask you about that. uh-huh. some of these there are going to be folks that argue that you aren t fully protecting those folks with preexisting conditions, that you are taking healthier people out of the larger pool, allowing them to be put in a cheaper catastrophic-only pool which then of course over time could only raise the premiums of the sicker in the pool that wants more benefits, that wants some of those things. isn t that what is happening here. no, no. is that not doing to take place. i don t think so. what s the protection. when you see the bill as the language comes together it s likely thursday. i think see that the preexisting condition protection is protected. some states are using reinsurance, which you understand you sometimes have to create a back stop for high cost claims that requires sometimes separating high c
means senators just want us to put more money in to make doctors happy and make these insurers happy. is your answer get more money and put it in? well, if we want to keep the promises that president trump made on the campaign trail, and retain the preexisting condition protection, and retain the medicaid expansion, that is going to cost more money. brian: right. one of the things that happened last year and i know this is technical but something called risk quarters which will put in place to protect insurance companies from losing money in the marketplaces was taken away. and so if that is taken away and the individual mandate is taken away, a lot of insurance executives say we can t make money in these marketplaces. that s part of what is going on. brian: when you say those risk corridors and one of the people who stopped is recall marco rubio. throwing more money at a program that not only do they not believe in was losing money to begin with the whole doctor fix, write taxpaye
doesn t always make it so, tonight we test the case of what was gained for each side in singapore. we have one of the architects of the summit strategy to do just that in a second. but also tonight, president trump isn t tweeting about it, but this should be on your radar. first the attorney general aimed to get rid of preexisting condition protection. now a move that could be really bad for women seeking asylum in the u.s. we ll take you through it. and more redoes. bill clinton just dug himself an even deeper hole. we de that, next. so what do you say? let s get after it. all right, little white board action for you here, okay? what are the points the administration is looking at in terms of why it was a win in singapore? we are now talking nicely. the brinkmanship seemed to have ended. tough talk worked.
singapore. we have one of the architects of the summit strategy to do just that in a second. but also tonight, president trump isn t tweeting about it, but this should be on your radar. first the attorney general aimed to get rid of preexisting condition protection. now a move that could be really bad for women seeking asylum in the u.s. we ll take you through it. and no more redos. bill clinton just dug himself an even deeper hole. we debate that, next. so what do you say? let s get after it. all right, little white board action for you here, okay? what are the points the administratis looking at in terms of why it was a win in singapore? we are now talking nicely. thbrinkmanship seemed to have ended. tough talk worked. that s what brought kim jong-un to the table. the administration said he was