table, and you have to put another $6000 on the table before you can have your insurance company help you, nobody thanks that is insurance. the current system isn't working we have to figure out how to work make this market work better. most missouri counties now only have one insurance company willing to offer insurance on the individual market. we are just hopeful that these counties still have at least one company next year, even though it's been mentioned today that iowa, our neighbor, has no companies willing to offer in the exchange or out of the exchange on the individual market because this bad plan that we are under no has stressed the marketplace so badly that nobody wants to be a part of it and rob, a small business guy in st. joseph said his insurance at work, whether he pays half of it is boys has gone up 50% at work and when you ask the insurance companies they say we have to find some way in the group market to help offset what happens in the individual market so we need to do the job that lets americans have access to healthcare and insurance they can afford. >> t

said we are out of the obama care insurance markets. this is a company that initially was one of the cheerleaders for the obamacare exchanges. when you look at counties all around the country, seven out of 10 counties are down to one or two choices total on the obamacare exchanges as companies continue to pull out saying, we don't want the business and to sell there. people at home are seeing increased premiums, fewer choices, and we are working on getting a health care system that is better than the one we had before obamacare. year of the implementation of obamacare, i went to the floor virtually every week with story after story after story of the syrians in the families losing the health care they had. one family whose son was born with a significant problem, he was 20, have the same doctors his entire life, under obamacare , they lived on the kansas border, their doctors were on the kansas side. there was no insurance policy they could qualify for the head those doctors. they decided to go without insurance and put their personal money behind lettin

instead if you look at how much the insurance companies are making, up to $50 million. lked about how the six ceos of the highest insurance companies are making $300 million combined. is in our country health care was a right, they would not be mentioning that kind of money. they would be going to help people, not to give ceos huge amounts of money. host: carl is calling from kansas city, missouri on the democratic line. hi, carl. caller: hi, amen to that man who was just on there. i want to make a point. this thing that's going on is a tax cut. it's not a health bill. ann the republicans put in infrastructure thing, it will be a tax cut, it won't be building construction, financed rightfully by the government so we can have some roads and bridges. and republicans always say that when the government does something, it is always done bad. will actually, that's not true. -- well actually, that's not true. i'm a veteran, and the republicans are trashing the veterans administration and hospitals because they are trying to privatize it. i had excellent care with the v.a. i sa

the definition of health insurance under federal law before the aca was anything a health insurance company sells. with the aca essential health benefits standards were added and also limits on cost sharing so those were done to kind of make coverage meaningful, but also just definitional. if we're going to require that people have something and we're going to subsidize it we want to know what it is, so now -- now health insurance in the individual market has to be major medical coverage. it was inefficient before, loss ratios were low, that that's the amount of premium dollar that insurers spend on benefits, they were writing, i don't know, 60%, 70% before the individual market, now they have to be at least 80% or else insurers have to give people a rebate the following year. haven't had any trouble hitting that 80% mlr. i will talk about that in a minute. so this market i think has been entirely transformed. and that transition was difficult. i think challenging anyway for insurance companies. they really had to adapt an entirely new business model and when the new individual market and m

the insurance companies are fleeing. this is a great plan. i think it will get even better. replace ofepeal and obama care. make no mistake about it. host: the present with members of congress, all republicans who passed the bill by the narrowest of margins. what does the new law mean? the washington post is taken a look and that is available online. let's go to carol from wisconsin on the democrat line. good morning. i would like to warn people that when their representative start talking about the high risk pool, they should be mailed them, talk to them in person if possible and asked them for specific details. i live in paul ryan's district. he talked about how great the district was here in wisconsin before obama took over. businessfor a small and they decided to get insurance. the insurance company they chose turned me down because of back surgery. to bosses told me to try apply for the high risk pool. i was accepted. they said they would pay for it. otherwise i would not have it. this was 14 years ago. i was on it for about seven years. the premiums started out at $600

i am assuming it will go through the insurance companies? the billions given to the insurance companies for these changes which are failing left and right. it sounds like they want everything to go back to the insurance companies. i do not know how they will give us affordable rates. if the ceo of one company is making $60 million annual and another $70 million annually, how will they offer us affordable rates? one monthrom nevada ago, i am not for single-payer. my ideas have read medicare and leave medicare and medicaid alone. people have paid too long for medicare to have it closed down. pre-medicare generated, you will think this is weird, national lottery. have the money placed in a national bank. of health care funding. this was the guy from nevada. have money sent to the national , then haveinterest the money sent to each state, state health care fund banks. have all of the claims sent there. the current health insurance companies are not overseen administration. they had problems with the exchanges. if you want to keep the insurance c

i was going to, that if all of these insurance companies are trying to duck out, the problem is the insurance companies. system,y are out of the and they go back to a single-payer system, everything might just start falling into place. >> i think you make a good point. obamacare is predicated on the private insurance system in america. andrary to republican critical feedback on obamacare, it is not a government takeover or socialized medicine. it is predicated on private insurance. democrats would have preferred a single-payer system as you suggest. should this plan be repealed, i believe the fallback eventually will be a single-payer system. company, i would try to make this one work. you are right in your criticism of insurance companies, it is about profit and not really always about customer service. that is why we had to make it , to prevent insurance companies from denying people coverage based on a pre-existing condition. virtually everybody over 50 has a pre-existing condition. that is the human condition if you live long enough. to deny the right of insurance companies to arbitrarily

insurance. the current system isn't working and we have to figure out how to make this market work better. most missouri counties only have one insurance company willing to offer insurance on the individual markets we are just hopeful that those counties still have one companies next year. even today, iowa, our neighbor, has no company is willing to offer in the exchange or out of the exchange on the individual market because bad plan that we are under now has stressed the marketplace so badly that nobody wants to be a part of it and rob , small business guy in st. joseph's, says his insurance at work -- he pays half of it for his employees has gone up 50 % at work. when you ask the insurance companies they say they have to find some way in the group market to help offset what happens in the individual market so, we need to do the job that lets americans have access to healthcare and insurance they can afford. >> just to put a finer point on what both roy and john were talking about. in iowa, it's not that the insurers are leaving the exchange and individual marketplaces. they are leading iowa. either on the exchange or off the exchange, the c

and it's not the insurance companies, it's the hospitals they have a license to steal. nobody regulates hospitals they just charge whatever they want and it is ridiculous. >> host: for the insurance companies in this discussion that's going on. >> caller: >> guest: i don't believe that it's the insurance companies fold into they've gotten out of hand with the healthcare people charging so much money they are trying to step in and they won't be let to fix it unless you regulate the hospitals and keep them from robbing us. >> host: elizabethtown kentucky, democrat line go ahead. >> caller: hello my name is diane. i'm calling from kentucky. i am disabled and have medicare part a and b. and i have the medicaid here. now he's going back on his promise

the insurance companies premiums are too high. i worked for the department of defense for 21 years. every year my insurance premiums went up. host: thank you. guest: you sound like a patient of mine, though i have not practiced in montgomery. i see patients who have medicaid programs, and i take care of them, and i need her refer them to a specialist in the community. less specialists are wanting to take care of patients on medicaid. this bill will make the problem worse. ?hy fundamentally the federal government will relieve themselves of the responsibility of caring in the emergency department or in the community. they will create a bloc grant program where they will give states a certain amount of money and say you need to come up with the rest. states will have to figure out how to cut benefits, eligibility, and reimbursements to doctors, which will make it worse for patients to be taken care of on medicaid. this bill will make the problem worse. north carolina, independent line. caller: thank you, c-span. i have a pre-existing condition. obamacare first was fine. they took care o

individual mandate of future payments of the subsidies led have led insurance to withdraw from the marketplace the biggest organization of the insurance companies said the same thing. why is colleagues want more people to stay in the market are complaining that people are leaving the market don't come together and say we will make this cost sharing permanent? we all know the insurers want certainty for the future. that is what the insurance business is all about. don't but then begrudgingly one step at a time they don't take away the cost sharing d because they know the damage it would do but they are afraid to make it permanent and that causes problems so there is only one word for what the president must do with the republican colleagues are doing with the present health care system, a sabotage. if our friends continue to allow the president to play coy about cost sharing d payments that brings the cost for average citizens down continue to let the president play coy as a potential threat the system will deteriorate and that will be on the president's and colleagues back. that is the fact we want to make it permanent and put that in the appro

this is a map you have seen on our website that shows the number of insurance companies participating in the marketplace by county in united states. the orange areas are areas where there is just one insurance company selling. the blue areas are two, and the gray areas, there are three or more competing in a marketplace. lots of reasons why the orange areas are the way they are, two in particular. when you look at the all-orange states, wyoming, arizona, alaska, alabama, those are all states that have high concentration of rural areas. it is hard for multiple insurance companies to compete when there are not many people buying in the first place. they are also areas in states that did not select medicaid expansion. it turns out in one of our papers in her packet that talks about risk scores of market participants by state. the health status tends to be lower and risk is higher in areas that have not expanded medicaid. poverty turns out to be correlated with health problems and there is a lot of enrollment volatility at low-income levels, so eligibility for subsidy changes. there are a

it is not up to the insurance company. washington, maryland, virginia they can do that. nobody has yet. georgia passed a law that allows other insurers to sell. nobody took them up on it. the insurers don't like it. insurance regulators worry it would cause a race to the bottom, where you would have a state with very few regulations, and everybody was flock to that state. healthy people would buy from that state. you would not get many benefits, but they are healthy, so you don't think you need money. therefore there would only be sick people left in their individual state. premiums would go up. the other thing, this goes back about 20 years, you would have to have a network. -- ensure would not want insurers don't want to sell a plan in a state where they don't have any providers. it is not like somebody in the state of washington is going to go to north carolina and sell insurance because they don't have anyone to provide care. i'm not sure why there is some much excitement about this. for many years it has been suggested that this is not a very useful answer. host: our

the insurer cited obamacare losses of $100 million, which it called unsustainable for our company. e decision will leave 77 of month's 114 counties, including st. louis, with a single insurer, and some 31,000 missourians in another 25 counties with no coverage option. by the way, h.h.s. says premiums have increased by 145% on average in missouri over four years. "wall street journal" editorial board with their opinions this morning. darren in warbts, independent. what do you think? caller: thank you for having me. i love c-span. for regular dium everyday americans. but good morning. and this issue, it really burns me up, this healthcare issue. i am an independent, but i'm very passionate about this issue. everybody is born, and everybody is dies. like, you're going die. we should not be -- i think obamacare didn't go far enough, like that one caller said. we should have a single payer system and we shouldn't even have insurance companies. we should have, you know, nonprofit regulators, or some other type of system to where you are working on prolonging people's lives, and doctors, y

the people? >> eboni: what is not being talked about, health insurance and health care. >> kat: they are very different things. >> get the health insurance companies out. the day has come where i think we can go however -- >> eboni: insurance is supposed to be for catastrophic things. >> eric: in libertarian land, single-payer. >> all the risk pool money the plans put out. we paint through the back door now because they are doing $150 billion for risk pool. >> kat: it's not patient centered because the customer isn't the patient. the insurance company is. >> the key is to make the pool bigger. >> eric: rand paul would say that. that would bring insurance costs down. it doesn't bring the health care costs down. the way to do that is to provide competition. let a hospital compete with another hospital. get the insurance companies out. >> eboni: how are the doctors going to feel? i like your idea of competition but i'm worried about how it will affect health care itself. people are getting less for the coverage they are providing, i don't know how we incentivize the quality. if it starts being that cheap, so to speak. >> kat: make a doctor's answered

the insurance company on day one rccepts members who are cs eligible and start paying out claims. they only receive the federal government funding for the csr later on. insurance companies do not want to be in a situation where they find out six months later you do not get that money anymore. what we expect to happen are two options available. one, they would price at what we are calling and uncertainty buffer. that's a they were expecting to signal-digit premium increases for next year. they will probably tap on a little bit of the uncertainty buffers they do not -- because they do not know what is going to happen. they could load the silver plan with the csr. they get moreion, selective about participating. if there is a greater amount of uncertainty, they could decide to pull out of certain counties or certain states. one, which is important to mention, the marketplace has set up rules. after rules are changed you are already playing game, becomes harder to adjust. the rules like the individual mandate are a special enrollment periods. aroma of that would be critical for future

the insurance companies are fleeing. it has been a catastrophe and this is a great plan. >> now a reality check on what is in the bill and the political obstacles ahead. joining me now is christian welker. and nbc medical correspondent dr. john torres. welcome. first of all, the first time i have ever seen a white house signing ceremony, if you will, that had all of the look and feel of a victory celebration for a final passage of a bill that really only got through the house. >> that's right it is really only the first quarter. there is a lot more of the game that the white house and republicans have to fight and it goes to the senate now and it is facing a uphill battle? the senate. they are saying effectively they want to overall what passed in the house and they don't feel like they need to get it done by a particular deadline. they will not rush the process. the president can only afford to lose two republican senators to get this through the senate. white house officials saying the president will be engaged in this

>> well, i think it is a win for the health insurance, i actually do agree with jeff about the monopoly power and alliance with the drug companies and hospitals. you have three alliances working together here. what i will say about insurance, trish, you know this and you and i both know this, they are not into -- they are into making the profit. if the profit is not there to be made, they are going to get out. the problem here, though, is what jeff is saying, he says we should have government negotiate on our behalf, the problem is the lobbyists job is to keep the congressman and senator to keep in office. trish: no. it's very true. i mean, jeff, this is part of what donald trump campaigned on and i know you're not necessarily a trump fan, but i would imagine some aspects of the policy that you like and as you heard him say out there campaigning, look, we cannot have a situation where the american government is negotiating and basically just handing out money to the drug companies. >> absolutely. that's different from what we are talking about. i'm not -- there's not one line here about lowering the drug prices. i would like to

lemonis: you got paid $75,000 from the insurance company. u told me the money went into the business. -gary: yes, it did. -lemonis: okay. and so i'm watching all these trails of money come from the insurance company and go into your business, and i can see the business is thriving downstairs. where is the money from all those people that are buying? gary: i think we explained that. lemonis: explain it again! gary: some of the cash goes for... -lemonis: personal bills. -gary: yeah. we've got to pay -- lemonis: just like the insurance claims. gary: yeah. lemonis: then when i go to buy a piece of property, i decided to run a title search. gary: right. lemonis: first thing that comes up is a lien. the second thing i have is a foreclosure action. gary: from kasowitz mortgage. lemonis: you never told me about this. -gary: [bleep] i didn't. -lemonis: [bleep] when? gary: you sat here at this desk when we called that guy up and told him we'll pay him tomorrow. lemonis: but you didn't tell me that he was foreclosing. the foreclosure action started befo

that ad, when you lay it out there, you think about the fact that, yes, insurance companies can chargeive times as much for an older patient as they can for a younger patient. but i'm guessing the older patient is that much more costly to the insurance company. >> right. trish: than the young 22-year-old patient. >> the tactics definitely work. we saw that even during the time of romney's presidential campaign when they were talking about entitlement reform and basically the democrats basically said they're going to throw the seniors over the cliff. so it is effective. i do have to say that the script that hasn't been written and the ads that we're not seeing enough of is the obamacare failure. it's a fact of the collapse of the individual health care market system, the fact that consumers have fewer choices, the fact we've seen premiums rise, skyrocketing in the different states. that's the story that's not being told effectively, i think coming from the republican side and gives the democrats the advantage to celt story, the one bill being a bad bill. tris i think telection was a ref

if we don't pay lots of rain money over to the insurance companies, it would die immediately -- lots of ransom money over to the insurance companies, it would die immediately. there is a lot of talent standing behind me, an unbelievable amount of talent. that, i can tell you. [applause] and, you know, coming from a different world and only being a politician for a short period of time, how am i doing? am i doing ok? hey, i'm president. can you believe it? i thought you needed a little bit more time, they always told me, for time, but we didn't. but we have an amazing group of people standing behind me. they work so hard. they worked so long. when i said, let's do this, let's go out, just short little shots for each one of us, and let's say how good this plan is -- we don't have to talk about this unbelievable victory. wasn't it unbelievable? we don't have to say it again. it's going to be an unbelievable victory when we get it through the senate. but i said, let's go out, we have a little list of some of the people, and i think after that list goes, if they don't talk too long, we are

. >> oh no, it is still in there, but the insurance company can charge you whatever you want. you have cancer, oh, that will be $100,000 a year for your policy. >> reporter: democrats say republicans are rushing to pass the bill without waiting for the independent congressional budget office to assess the impact of the plan. >> what's the rush? wait a week and get a cbo score. why is that such a radical idea? >> reporter: republicans say something has to be done because they claim obama care is broken. >> that is why we have to make sure. they don't even have healthcare. >> reporter: the house bill will have to go through considerable changes in order to get the 51 votes needed to pass the upper chamber. immediately after the bill passed here, republicans shuffled into buses headed to the white house where the president tweeted there will be a ceremony in the rose garden. but, as lawmakers left here, they faced hundreds of protesters who were shouting at them shame, shame, echoing democrats like nancy pelosi who calls this measure a moral monstrosity. we are live on capitol hil

. >>> a story of a the insurance companies and the credit card companies and the wall street banks - that's what tom perriello is about. i was proud to stand with president obama because progressive causes have been my life's work. i'm tom perriello, and i'm running for governor to reduce economic inequality, burden of student debt and protect our climate. together we really can build a virginia that works for everyone. >>> it's considered one of the highest honors of the military. these elite volunteers are hand picked and rigorously trained. tonight, we have a story sentinol's courage, andrea mccarren and chris mullen. >> andy's service ended abruptly when he was diagnosed with a rare disease that has no cure. military doctors told him of the 17 people in the world, with his precise diagnosis, he is the only one still alive. >> it's emotional. it was always emotional. >>> sental was living his dream. 21 steps at a time. >> it's just like pumped me up. all right, i get to go guard the unknown soldiers today. for an entire 26 hour period. cool. >> he served as a tomb guard. >> that t

the insurance claim from the perspective of the policyholder. therefore, we become their advocate in the process and work with the insurance companies, adjusters, entatives to fine-tune the exact amount of damages and work towards an amicable resolution for settlement. >> sadly, coach holtz is not alone. there are about 370,000 house fires every year in the united states, which causes $7 billion in damage. many of those are due to lightning strikes. and in florida, well, they're a huge problem. the state has 1.2 million lightning strikes every year. that's 200,000 more than any other state. >> most people think, "certainly, i wouldn't lose my entire building. i wouldn't lose my entire home." but as you can see, this happens every day. i've been doing this 35 years. and this is a very common occurrence, unfortunately. >> i think how fortunate we are and how blessed my wife and i are to have as many friends as we've had have come to our aid, to have the resources to rebuild. people don't have any idea how difficult it is, trying to replace everything. and where do you go? what are you gonna -- those are the people i feel sorry for. >> so you need

it means the insurance company could charge an older american nearly five times more than the amount that they are charged under the bill. it would take us back to the days when insurance companies could price six people out of insurance and drive to bankruptcy by chargingcans outlandish rates. that's what they did with the bill and its unfathomable. we don't even know how these changes will be because we don't have the score but can anyone imagine that this amendment a would result in more americans being in church, does anyone imagine that it would provide a better coverage for americans with pre-existing conditions, i don't think so. so, that explains why republican colleagues in the house are rushing through with hardly any, debate. they don't want the american people to see this bill. if they didn't pass the bill today, their members would go on for two weeks on a recess over in the house, ge gets beaten upy their constituents. 17% of americans, only 17% approved. the rest had town hall meetingst public forums. r they stopped the first proposal from even receiving a vote. so now

we're taking across all the borders or the lines so insurance companies can compete. >> that's not in this bill. >> of course it is. >> the current plan could weaken protections for people with pre-existing conditions. it allows states to seek a waiver allowing them on raise the premiums and allowing insurance companies the cross state lines is not in this bill. the president said it is part of phase ii of the plan which we haven't seen yet. it was kunl fined to domestic issues. he said he would be only hadded to meet with kim jong-un. yesterday he called him a pretty smart cookie. when asked about the comments, sean spicer said the president is trying to protect americans. >> he assumed power at a young age and there were a lot of potential threats that come his way and he has managed to lead a country forward. despite the obvious concerns that we and so many people have. as he, two person to be leading a country with nuclear womens -- weapons snflt president trump told bloomberg news that he is willing to raise taxes by charging consumers more at the gas pump. the money would go tow

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>> host: for the insurance companies in this discussion that's going on. >> caller: >> guest: i don't believe that it's the insurance companies fold into they've gotten out of hand with the healthcare people charging so much money they are trying to step in and they won't be let to fix it unless you regulate the hospitals and keep them from robbing us. >> host: elizabethtown kentucky, democrat line go ahead. >> caller: hello my name is diane. i'm calling from kentucky. i am disabled and have medicare part a and b. and i have the medicaid here. now he's going back on his promise to. he needs to keep his promise and quit lying to the voters. i didn't vote for him, believe me. that's my viewpoint and i don't want to lose my health care. if i do i'm going to be at his front door and have some words for him. .. headquarters by mike allen, founder and editor at axios. appreciate your time. allen a nt to ask mike question about reporting or how he does his job, now is the time. democrats, 202-748-8000. republicans, 202-748-8001. independents, 202-748-8002. mike allen, let's jump right headli

insurance? one of the problems with obamacare is that some of the health insurance companies have dropped out of the market. now in one out of three counties there is one insurance company providing insurance, so you do not have much choice whatsoever in those counties. the number is growing every year. why not instead of having people maybe select from one or two or three plants, why not 100? why not somebody in michigan being able to buy a policy in utah? that would be number one. increased competition would drive down costs and give people more choices. the second thing you have to do is do medical malpractice reform. that is to say that the trial lawyers are about a $20 billion a year tax on her health -- our health care system. there has to be common sense malpractice reform and that is something most americans want. the third thing is to allow people to buy plans, especially for young people, a very stripped down plan that protects you against high catastrophic events, if you break your arm i get some kind of serious ailment. buthave a high deductible, you are protected from a high risk. i

independence day you could see the senate move on something. >> we neglected to ask you about the insurance companies, the big insurers that have been fleeing the obamacare exchanges. what's going to happen to them? quick. >> sure. in the nongroup market, the names will get better, because the tax credits -- this bill benefits people under 40, hurts people aged 50 to 65. the medicaid-exposed names could be negatively impacted if the $880 billion in medicaid cuts go through. >> chris, thank you very much. >>> also on capitol hill, a house panel advanced a bill to overhaul wall street regulations. the house financial services committee voted along party lines to undue the group of laws known as dodd/frank, which lawmakers said choked lending. democrats say the laws protect american consumers. >>> the drama in washington translated into relatively calm waters on wall street today. energy stocks dropped which capped some of the gains as investors looked ahead to tomorrow's monthly employment report. the dow jones industrial average off six points at 20,951. the nasdaq rose two. and the s&p 500 rose 1.39.

you have no recourse. >> we reached out to the national insurance crime bureau and told us consumers can question their insurance companyut bottom line the policy is what they are bound to follow. in the end elizabeth's insurance company did extend her rental for another week and dealership where she purchased the car offered to give her a good deal on the next one. back to you. >>> in news 4 your health women with advanced breast cancer are living longer. a study today from the cancer institute found that the five-year survival rate among women under age 50 had doubled from 18% to 36% since 1992. the median survival time for this group grew from just under two years to almost 39 months. the survival rate for women diagnosed between ages 50 and 64 also grew. researchers believe this is due to improvements in treatment. we have posted a link to the full study in our nbc washington app. >>> heads up if you drive in d.c. you are already accustomed to sharing the road with cycli t cyclists. it is bike to work day and it is expected to have some record breaking numbers. organizers tell us more than 17,000 people use pedal po

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the game for insurance markets to balance. we've talked about this before. if only the sick people are in the health insurance markets, then people won't be able to afford the premiums because the insurance companiesge claims for the sickest people. the math doesn't work. >> before we start weeping for health insurance companies and saying, my goodness, aetna dropping out of the state of virginia, well, aetna's ceo was paid $17 million in 2015. health care and drug company ceos are among the highest paid -- >> the stocks are among the best performing stocks of all in america. >> thank you, my friend. >> all right. >> that's the -- in fairness, i think it's important to say, these are big companies, complex companies to run. you want the best talent running them. you don't have to -- the insurance markets aren't making it -- >> i'm going to tell my ecutive producer to please ask whoever's up next to wait for a few minutes because andrew rubin opened up a big can of worms. stephanie ruhle is going to open a big can of something else on him. >> should have the best ceos possible. this idea that the companies and ate fo can't afford to stay in business in states. sorry, charlie. >> it's about balancin

the only ones making money the wealthy, the owners of the insurance companies, the owners of the pharmaompanies, and the doctors and the groups have their own set of problems. the bill will make things worse. we will have less preventative care and sicker people. host: north carolina, supports the effort. good morning. caller: can you hear me? host: you are on. needs: i agree the bill to be tweaked quite a bit. our military, congress, state employees should have the same insurance everyone else has. if we have something for us, it should be available for them. special treatment because it is congress for the senate and they get what they want, but everyone else gets what is left over, we should be treated the same. when you are in office, you are supposed to be working for the entire state, not just the republican part or democrat part . make people pay what we pay, and things will be better. host: opposing the effort. because theyose it are doing this health care policy so they can come up with $1 trillion for a tax cut for the wealthy. host: what makes you connect those dots? longr: i

i really frankly am not excited about subsidizing the profit of insurance companies. they make a lot of profits. they want to quadrant off the individual market where they don't make money and say oh, we want everybody to have insurance. as long as the taxpayer pays for it and premiums come down as long as you subsidize of people that get sick. that's what insurance is about. when you get sick, that's when the insurance company is supposed to pay. they just want to reap the profits and stick the taxpayer with the rest of the bill. so about 300 or 400 billion for insurance company profits. it boggles my mind how that became a republican idea. >> neil: sounds like you're a no vote as things stand. >> it will take me work to get me to a yes vote. i do have an open mind. there's not a louder voice for repealing obamacare. i don't want to replace with it another federal program. the programs they put in place will be there forever. so the refundable tax credit, which is a subsidy, will be there forever. these buying -- high risk pools that they want to create, republicans u

that did not take into account some of the insurance companies are closing down the exchanges and thoseeople will lose their insurance regardless of what happens. >> it was a bill that will not become law. >> they are going down to celebrate something that comes way, way, way short of what the president looked the american public in the eye and said he was going to deliver. insurance for everybody with less cost and higher quality. reporter: the attention will be on the senate as it tries to craft a bill to cone side with the legislation. here is what minority leader chuck schumer had to say. quote this bill is going nowhere fast in the united states senate. that was chuck schumer. mitch mcconnell and other republican senators say they will be work on this and it will emerge at some point. liz: president trump did a lot of arm twist on this deal. former speaker of the house newt gingrich says this bill shows president trump is bringing the t of the deal to washington, d.c. you don't have to beat them over the head. they developed an amendment that solved the problem. he weighed in, list

the back office. they get their insurance, they move on. the same insurance that all of us get. and then the insurance company and the government say we have a high risk pool, government, you are going to pay extra here. no one knows who is in the high risk pool, including the people that said they have a preexisting condition. >> but the insurance companies are making it clear whoever is in that, and you don't know who those individuals are, their increased are being borne by those participating. >> that is exactly right. people with preexisting condition. a preexisting condition should not be a factor in establishing rates. we realize that in maine, and our program worked very well, and i think that's what the federal government should have done. >> neil: all right, whether they can sort this through this preexisting stuff, i talked to mike kelly of pennsylvania who wasn't entirely sure whether preexisting conditions would be covered by all the states. so that got some alarms. let me ask about that. if for some reason, whether it is a preexisting thing or the high risk pool or trying to, you know, imitate w

you're right about the insurance companies pulling out. the aca has been a total disaster, to borrow a term from trump there but the reality going forward what kind of pressure is the administration going to put on some insurers in regards to covering the sick they don't want to cover? to me there is a lot of uncertaintwith respect to the space and medical devices as well, pharma also. we have completely annihilated our health care exposure as of couple months ago just because of this uncertainty. cheryl: hold on, we have earnings from cbs. reporting first quarter results. lori rothman on the floor of the new york stock exchange. what are the results,. >> top line beat. shares are not changed since the close. cbs shares closed .6 of a percent higher. earnings pure share 1$4 versus estimate of 95 cents per share on 3.34 billion per revenue. that is better than $3.27 billion in revenue. quarterly ad revenue declined. an entertainment revenue for cbs also fell. here's the thing. if you compare the first quarter to it the first quarter of 2016,

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the insurers are concerned. you need insurers if you're going to operate. we will see what happens when it gets to the senate. >> chris: good news for the insurance companies, a political hot potato for the centage. trish regan of the fox business network. thank you. president trump's first overseas trip will see them visiting the capitals of three of the worlds major religions. tonight, chief washington correspondent james rosen brings us the itinerary and the opportunities present. >> two weeks from now, president trump will touchdown on the first leg of his foreign trip which will take them to jerusalem and the vatican ahead of meetings in europe. senior you officials say saudi arabia is the first up because of its preeminence in the region and because it's the birthplace of islam, custodian of its two holiest sites. >> it is there that we will begin to construct a new foundation of cooperation and support with our muslim allies to combat extremism, terrorism, and violence. >> saudi officials told fox news it's unprecedented for an american president to meet first with the saudi king, then with allies on the gulf cooperation council. then scores of arab