To texas. Joining me now is erin delmore, our north America Business correspondent. We should stress that he is not talking about whether shareholders support the move and the paid package, but actually whether she can get a request It Percentage of shareholders to a ballot. What is that about . Shareholders to a ballot. What is that about . ,. ,. , that about . You are right. There are two issues here, that about . You are right. There are two issues here, getting that about . You are right. There are two issues here, getting people that about . You are right. There are two issues here, getting people to l two issues here, getting people to vote, and getting people to vote at all. Shareholders approve this pay deal back in 2018. It was losing money back then. Now the company has a market value of nearly 570 billion dollars. Their argument is that they set these lofty targets that the company tied to mask s pay. They say he deserves the pay but a judge in delaware said that the process
use and prices them out of the market. so until we get prices that are able to flow, plans that people can tailor to their own circumstances, you are not going to see this market function properly. arthel: that s your idea, tailored healthcare, your idea fixing the problem. nothing s a perfect plan of course. if you wouldn t mind, there s got to be some sort of bumps in the road on that plan. what do you think they are? no, no, we had high risk pools, 138 billion dollars of invisible high risk pools. we had a refundable tax credit for a safety net. and we returned to the states the ability to implement those high risk pools that was taken away under the affordable care act. then we removed all of the federal mandates or at least gave the states the option to develop their own plan without federal mandates, which would have lowered premiums allowing prices to float so that young and healthy people could buy an affordable plan and get back into the insurance pools. alexander murray doe
million. it would reduce the deficit by 138 billion dollars over 10 years a. and will expand access to health care and make it more affordable. republicans votes tomorrow at some point, that s when we will find out for certain. julie: why did house democrats decide to go with the straight up vote on drop the deem and pass? reporter: political pressure mostly. despite the complaints from republicans, all the outrage from the public who thought this was an attempt at a shortcut that would uncut the president s pledges of transparency it was the president and democratic leaders who opted to not do this. they continue to meet drafting the parameters of tomorrow s debate two key democrats said they didn t like the deem and pass shortcut and a straight up or down vote on a clean senate bill would be necessary. democrats made the decision that it wasn t necessary.