taketh away in health care. right. 1/10 of 1% bracket, to pay for that alone requires you to take health care from 13 million people. i think people should recognize that this is a very explicit trade-off. you can look at the two sides of the ledger. end up on one side what do you get on the other? those are the priorities our congress is choosing to say, we re going forward with. i want to show you the medical opposed to the mandate cut. six already we ve got. same story with health care, again. andy, here a lot of people don t get as worked up about tax cuts and they do health care. why we had people on the stairs of capitol hill protesting out there. members of congress offices. weird the senate has chose ton bring that fervor and energy that basically took the repeal of obamacare down and add it to a tax bill.
change their minds on this bill. good you pointed that out, though. because the sunset clause on the individual tax cuts is something that isn t getting enough attention. garrett, thanks. garrett haake doing double duty on capitol hill. for more bring in andy slavic, former acting for the center of medicare and medicaid services. you and i talked about other matters before i knew that this repeal of the individual mandate would sneak its way into the senate bill. i guess it s not fair to say sneak it s way in, because as we described, there is math behind it making it worthwhile. give me your take on what this means isa political ob mathematics to make the bill work? well, you know, you start out with a tax bill that has about 25% popularity with the public. i really think this is sneaking it in, because i think most americans don t think they re having a tax health care issue but a tax conversation, and then you have what we hear today is, record open enrollment
well, and i think that s why they put it in at the end. there s very little time for this to happen. but here s something has people should think about. we have 11 people in the house that are already saying they can t support the tax bill. if this indeed makes it into the house s version of the bill, there are another 18 to 20 or so not counting that 11 that have already said they wouldn t support a repeal of the aca. if you add those two together, then paul ryan would not have the votes, and i think it s very important for us to recognize that this is a repeal of the aca. the exact same thing. just done tax first, aca second instead of aca first, tax second. andy, thanks for joining me. former head are medicare and medicaid under president obama. and jeff sessions may consider an investigation into hillary clinton.
community. how can he not be there for us. we need his help. he needs to be there for us. katie, another protest tlslad for 5:00 p.m. in miami today, and about a dozen floridans were outside of his office in washington dc today. that woman there getting to the heart of it, all of the uncertainty out there right now when it comes to people s health care. thank you very much, glad you got your umbrella. i want to bring in andy slavic. former director of the medicaid and medicare services. the main argument is that obama care is collapsing. the fact check that we have is that it is not, and every cbo score has said that, and they are largely stable. why are the republicans using
up and stabilize them, but that is not what the republicans priority is right now. they want to repeal obama care and get rid of existingtu sure. and democrats don t a repeal of obama care. so for much of them, they re still very much on the opposite side of the aisle. margo excuse me, andy slavic, and the new york times marg margot we ll show you part of what you may have missed from the exchange yesterday between the deputy press secretary and a reporter, where do we go from here? i think america is looking for something better. they re looking for something more. and i think they deserve something better from our news media. i tried to quit with the patch; that didn t work. along with support, chantix (varenicline) is proven to help people quit smoking.