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Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said Friday morning he believes consumers should be able to buy health insurance for $1 per day.

"What I'd like to do is legalize inexpensive insurance, and you should be able to get insurance for $1 a day. I mean, you really should," Paul said in an interview on MSNBC. "The insurance companies make all the money all of this is predicated upon still propping up the insurance companies."

The Kentucky Republican was discussing the newly released Senate healthcare bill, which repeals parts of Obamacare and phases out the Medicaid expansion by 2024.

Paul and three other GOP senators came out against the plan as it is currently written Thursday, but said they're open to changes.

"I want the bill to look more like a repeal bill," he said Friday morning. "I promised people I was going to repeal it. I didn't promise people I was going to replace it with a federal program of bailing out insurance companies."

Paul also said that consumers should be involved more with healthcare providers, and pointed to the way people shop for Lasik eye surgery as proof that prices fall when consumers are more involved.

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Former CKE Restaurants CEO Andy Puzder says Sen. Rand Pauls comments on the Senate health care bill, which he says he opposes, are "just plain wrong."

Paul toldFox News Neil Cavuto Wednesday, When I look at this I keep reading it and its like, it sounds like ObamaCare to me, doesnt even sound like ObamaCare light, in some areas it may be ObamaCare plus."

Puzder, in an interview with FOX Business' Stuart Varney, disagreed. "This is not a redo of ObamaCare, the 30-hour work week is gone, the employee mandates gone, the individual mandates gone, the taxes are removed.

Puzder agreed with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), saying, Wed like to see premiums come down more.

But Puzder raised concerns about the issue of pre-existing conditions.

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Im a little concerned with the fact that we not only keep, in the Senate bill we keep the exclusion for pre-existing conditions which really discourages young people.

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Trump was asked about Rand Paul of Kentucky, Mike Lee of Utah, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, and Ted Cruz of Texas, who said in a statement they were not ready to vote for this bill.

Well, they are also four good guys and four friends of mine, Trump replied. I think that theyll probably get there. Well have to see.

Trump admitted that heath care was a very complicated situation and that it was difficult to please everyone.

You do something thats good for one group but bad for another, he said.

Trump pointed out that the four dissenting senators did not refuse to support the bill but wanted to negotiate.

Its not that theyre opposed; theyd like to get certain changes, and well see if we can take care of that, said Trump.

He also defended the pace of the negotiation process, reminding his supporters that he has only been in office for five months.

Its a very, very narrow path, but I think were going to get there, he said.

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Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) and former CIA agent Phil Mudd (Photo: Screen captures)

Former CIA-agent-turn-CNN-commentator Phil Mudd railed against Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) after the senator claimed he didnt know whether or not he was personally being surveilled by U.S. intelligence.

You heard Rand Paul just say to me a while ago here in The Situation Room that hes not ruling out the possibility that the U.S. intelligence community is spying on him and the president, host Wolf Blitzer said.

Rand Paul doesnt know what hes talking about, Mudd said simply. What hes referencing is intercepts of foreign officials where they may talk to Rand Paul. Foreign official one, the Russian ambassador talked to a U.S. person. That U.S. person might be Rand Paul. Heres my question back, happy to debate him any day, number one: do you think we should intercept the Russian ambassador? Number two: if the Russian ambassador talks to a U.S. official, should that be disseminated if that U.S. persons name is obscured? If the answer is no, my question is, what does intelligence do? He doesnt know what hes talking about.

When it came to Trumps afternoon tweets, Mudd wondered what Trump was even talking about when he claimed he doesnt know if there are or are not tapes.

This is the residence he lives in! Mudd exclaimed. He doesnt know if there are tapes? Let me ask the question: who runs the Defense Department, the CIA, National Security Agency and the Homeland Security Department? These are people typically nominated by him. Heres the question: if you think that there is some sort of surveillance in the White House, who exactly is doing this surveillance? I dont appreciate that the presidents playing us for fools. Whos doing this?

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MSNBCs Casey Hunt caught up with Senator Rand Paul in the halls of the Capitol Building this morning to ask his quick thoughts on the Senate version of the GOP Healthcare bill just released.

Paul was an initial and vocal critic of the House health care bill, and it appears that he is also frustrated with the version presented by his Senate colleagues, telling Hunt looks like were keeping Obamacare, not repealing it.

Why is this short and seemingly throw-away line so important? Well the GOP Senate has only the slightest of room to pass this bill as it will take only three Republican senators to vote against it to kill this version. Judging from Pauls comments, it appears that he will not be voting for this iteration of the bill.

The Libertarian leaning Kentucky Senator has promised a statement shortly.

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