not just one of falsehood, republicans are using to defend trump care, including this on medicaid. are you actually saying that $880 billion in cuts, according to the cbo, however you want to talk about that not being a cut, that that s actually not going to result in millions of americans not getting medicaid. absolutely not. so you don t think anyone is going to be hurt when you re taking $880 billion out of the system? no, i don t. because i think the micromanagement by medicaid, the system isn t working. by getting the states the ability to customize the population, that are programmed to wait for them. whenever we have a waiver and give it to the state, it works better. customize their medicaid population. to be the clear the nonpartisan found the $880 billion cut to medicaid, would mean you might expect it would, how could it not.
our program because it will be more responsive to them. these decisions will be made closer to them. right now you have washington d.c. dictating to the states and dictating to patients what must occur. that s not how a healthy health system works. a healthy health sills tell works by allowing the individuals closest to the patients themselves to be making those decisions, and from the president s perspective and our perspective that means patient s and families and doctors making medical decisions, not washington d.c. reporter: so there you heard secretary price insisting that people on medicaid will receive better care, but there are a lot of folks who are concerned about the $880 billion in cuts to the program that are a part of this bill. among other concerns, the concern that this bill does not provide enough aid to people who are low income or who are seniors to be able to afford to buy coverage. there are also concerns about the fact that this bill would allow insurers not to
how do you reconcile the promtss of taking this on? we came back from new hampshire where the president went to the fire house and said i will be there with you with a 95% cut. not only a 95% cut, but if you look at what s happening in the health care bill passed last week with medicaid, in kentucky, for example, seven times as many people are receiving substance abuse treatment as they were two years ago. the state has added so many people in coverage. you re talking about removing 14 million people, $880 billion from medicaid. this is a broad issue about whether the trump administration is in fact delivering on the promises and for the voters who elected him. we talked about this many times in health care. the biggest losers in the bill are older, lower income adults who are primarily trump voters. this kind of goes along with that pattern. are they delivering for the
actually passed it, his the best you re going to ge. are you going to make good on that promise to repeal and replace? we don t know the answer to that question yes. i think people are paying attention to the specifics. i heard a young couple saying did you hear about the $880 billion cut to medicaid? specific numbers. it is. republicans are learning what the democrats had for so long. listen to this. [ no audio ] all right. let me read it out loud. she w he was talking about he was asked if people on medicaid would die. he said no one wants anyone to die. i m now told we have it. let s listen.
they drop it for months at a time. that would make them vulnerable if a state took a waiver. wi we both know companies given an option will not cover pre-existing conditions if they are told they don t have to. why ignore those possibilities? because we have to look over the horizon and provide for flexibility at the state level to come up with ways to improve upon it. to do things better than what one size fits all doesn t work under obamacare. pulling money out of the system has never been shown to be a way to improve coverage in terms of how many people will get care. you are pulling $880 billion out of it over about a decade period. how will that help? that is one of the fundamental issues we have in the disagreement to the other side. the other side assumes putting money in the situation solves the problem.