a louisiana teacher is still waiting for an apology after being handcuffed and arrested at a school board meeting. she tells nbc news it happened after she asked a question about the superintendant s salary. a blackout. talk about irony. at ces, the largest electronics conference of the year, was left in the dark for over an hour yesterday. several halls at the las vegas convention center lost power due to heavy rain. you want your kids to study coding, how about become an electiricia electrician? while the trump administration was publicly fighting a battle to repeal obamacare early last year, an elaborate covert plan to chip away at the affordable care act is being devised behind closed doors. politico reports former hhs secretary tom price and top house republicans came up with a list of actions the hhs secretary could take without having to wait for a repeal. the list included cutting the signup period in half. and giving states more authority to decide what are essential
answer. if you have more choice, he thinks, that is sort of the market decides. let me just play this for you, sarah, and you can tell us your analysis. listen to this. right now they don t have my vote and i don t think they have mike lee s either. now, i want to be a yes. i want to get there. i think obamacare is awe disaster. but there s work to be done. but the price to getting there is using on consumer freedom. you want prices to go down. eco 101. you want more choices, more options, competition, and prices fall. obamacare has fewer choices, less competition, prices rise. it is very simple. econ 101, he says. yeah. as our president has said, who knew health care could be so complicated. it is not a normal market. a lot of pple aren t really shopping who have a condition like cancer or something serious this don t have much choice
about their health care. the young and the healthy could see their premiums go down if they could buy a plan that didn t cover something like cancer treatment. but some need the robust coverage if you have that market like the one senator cruz lays out, they will be at a disadvantage. they will often say no. obamacare requires insurance companies to cover a robust set of benefits. we go back to a market similar like the one we had before the affordable care act where it was hard for people with costly conditions to get coverage. this is market intervention on the part of the government in a way that is not praou. insurance companies always have to get taken care of. that was the deal with prescription drugs. and it was also guaranteeing if
they have overcome i think one of the big tests which this has the, you know, every appearance, and not just appearance but substance, of trying to do this on a party line vote in the way that democrats did it. and that s the danger. i think for people who care about it for john mccain who says i may agree with certain points of this but i don t think we ought to be doing it this way. the reality from a policy perspective is that the impact of obamacare took a long time to really understand. and understanding what the impact of some of these alternatives would be is also going to take a long time. that is what is is making it so difficult to cherry pick the senators off in the end by sweetening the deal. but i don t think you can count it out yet because of how much pressure there is on mitch muck connell and the republicans. let s hear from susan collins yesterday. it is very difficult for me to envision a scenario where i would end up voting for this
senate building. the protesters are amazing. some in wheel chairs. there was a blind fellow there. there have people who have really lived their lives in wheelchairs. these were desperate, tough cases. real, real health challenges these people faced. they were dragged out of a senate finance committee today, disrupted for interrupting a hearing to consider that graham/cassidy obamacare repeal bill. anyway, the battle to repeal obamacare had gotten personal with the president blaming john mccain personally for not getting it done. on 60 minutes last night, john mccain was asked if his vote against a july repeal effort was retaliation for the president s mocking of his vietnam war service during the 16 campaign. in his years as a prisoner of war. let s watch this. if i took offense at everybody who has said something about me or disparaged me or something like that, life is too short. you ve got to move on. and on an issue of this importance to the nation, for me to worry about a pe