but i think when the cbo score comes in it s going to show that we have lower premiums were more accessibili accessibility. i think that the cbo score will be just fine. do you think there s going to be more accessibility? for example, one of the arguments that has been made by people who support it is that people are going to continue to be able to have coverage for preexisting conditions. and in fact insureds cannot deny coverage outright. but they can hike up premiums to an unaffordable level effectively prices people out of the market. one of the reasons that aarp opposes it is because they believe the prum yums can reached that. if you look at the bill itself, the macarthur amendment, and the bills added, you ll see that we ve taken care of preexisting conditions. the only time they can go up on the rates is when someone lets
made. is there a moral argument that you re making a choice, we re okay with millions of people who are poor not getting coverage to lower the prum yums from other groups. let me take it from two different directions. when we wrote to the governors, many governors including the governor of ohio, kasich, said please give us relief from the essential benefits, we can design better plans here that will work for ohi ans. that s an area where we have common ground. on the moral question, here is the one that should be asked. under obamacare what the federal government said, if you re an able bodied adult, the federal government will pay 100% to the states to put you on medicaid. that resulted in some folks being forced onto medicaid that didn t want it, the five to six million who had insurance and lost it. some of that was different because of the way the insurance