bill. that means that medicaid expansion stays in place. that means that the exchanges that are falling apart stay in place. you are talking about bailout money to insurance companies. you can t find common ground in the fact that there is an urgency of moderates and republicans come together. with that being said, there is going to come to a point where they need to agree on certain provisions. that being i think they re going to have to leave some of the medicaid expansion in place. i think they re going to have to keep pre-existing conditions, that is one of the selling point that even the trump administration is pushing for. in the big question here, this is why the mm it make sense, and i could see moderates supporting it, is the fact that you would push for regulatory reform in terms of allowing the insurance companies that they would have to be compliant pushing forward and obamacare plan, but they re also able to design other products as well as allow for
stance. the plan acknowledges we are going to have a death spiral which is sicker and sicker people in the individual market and healthy people don t buy insurance. they put over $100 billion in bailout money to try to say we re going to tamp down prices. we are going to acknowledge the problem will continue and were going to pile taxpayer money in it. that s not a conservative notion. eric: there are others more confident the bill will garner enough support to pass before the congressional recess. what we are trying to do is thread a needle and make it so that as the president says, every single american needs to be able to have access to the kind of coverage they want, ensuring pre-existing illnesses are covered, ensuring there are no lifetime caps, that individuals have the kind of choices that are necessary to that the system is responsive to people, to patients, not responsive to government. eric: also in the cbo
largely responsible for counting the votes, making sure that the president s agenda or the speaker s gets passed. that s about right. jon: let s talk about a government shutdown. there are fears that there could be a shutdown of the government when it effectively runs out of money on friday. is that going to happen? we hope not. at this point, what i read today in political is that nancy pelosi is asking for insurance bailout money as well as money for puerto rico and a puerto rican bailout. these are new ingredients in this discussion, they are extraneous to keep in the government open and i would hope that the leader would relent. most of the democrats are actually on board with giving up on those two issues because they don t think they are essential for funding the government. once they let go of that issue, we are very clear to keep the government up and running.
of u.s. service members were flown home in flag-draped caskets to the air base at dover, that was a secret and there were no cameras allowed. under president obama that secrecy order was undone. and now, under president obama the government will pay travel expenses for the families of fallen soldiers to be there when their loved one s remains arrive on that tarmac. under president obama, the don t ask, don t tell ban was repealed in the military, as was the ban on transgender soldiers serving openly and all combat positions were open to women. president obama, arguably, saved medicare. he made medicare solvent for years to come because he slowed down the growth of health care costs, that is what was eating that program. president obama also inarguably saved the u.s. auto industry. he saved the u.s. auto industry, reorganized gm that paid back their bailout money and american
on that tarmac. under president obama, the don t ask, don t tell ban was repealed in the military, as was the ban on transgender soldiers serving openly and all combat positions were open to women. president obama, arguably, saved medicare. he made medicare solvent for years to come because he slowed down the growth of health care costs, that is what was eating that program. president obama also inarguably saved the u.s. auto industry. he saved the u.s. auto industry, reorganized gm that paid back their bailout money and american automakers are now among the largest most profitable car companies in the world and millions of american jobs tell that tale. tens of billions of dollars that used to get paid to the banks for writing student loan programs go to pell grants to help people go to college who otherwise wouldn t afford it. oh, and you can t be denied