obamacare is imploding all across america and working family and small businesses are paying the price every day. there after being unveiled on tuesday the senate replacement bill is already facing resistance on the hill with kentucky s rand paul and maine s susan collins already coming out in opposition. the bill doesn t repeal obamacare. i m very disappointed because i have been very vocal about my concerns. at last count number ruse senators are on the fence regarding its approval. we are joined from the governor s meeting in providence, rhode island. what s happening there? reporter: reaction from the governors is definitely not nearly as positive as i think the white house would like to this health care bell. democrats, of course, unanimously opposed to it as you would expect. even among republicans, very few, if any, are smoking out in
we are very, very close to ending this health care nightmare. we are so close. it s a common sense approach that restores the sacred doctor/patient relationship and you are going to finally have great health care at a lower price. this weekend, top trump officials including vice president mike pence and health and human services secretary tom price are in rhode island trying to garner support at the national governors association gathering. president donald trump is going to lead this congress to rescue the american people from the collapsing policies of obamacare. after being unveiled on tuesday, the senate replacement bill is already facing resistance on the hill, with kentucky s rand paul and maine s susan collins already coming out in opposition. this bill doesn t repeal obamacare. i m very disappointed,
live with that now because you sweetened the pot on opioids. it s just not how it works. and the reality is this thing has a cost to it beyond just the dollars. it is how many people are actually going to wind upkeeping their health care when it s all said and done, and i don t think the republicans still have an answer for that. if rand paul is sitting on principle and he s not going to shift, is there enough juice to get those moderates onboard? no way, not with this bill the way it is. i m really watching rob portman on this. west virginia is on the front lands. these states that expand in medicaid, there are 170,000 people in west virginia that are on the affordable care act, 50,000 of those people have drug abuse issues. you cannot almost sweeten that opioid pot enough. look, these cuts to medicaid are devastating and they re devastating to the people most at risk here, the elderly, poor children, poor families, poor women who are raising their children. this is a real issue.
other undecided people say i m against it too. all right. the health care bill is on life support, how can mitch mcconnell revive it? i want my panel to weigh in. michael steele, republicans are divided here. you have conservatives and moderates. uh-huh. will rand paul realize, hold on, if i don t let this thing go through and we end up with a sort of bipartisan resolution, that s even worse. why wouldn t those guys say, let s at least get us on the same page? well, i think probably because guys like rand paul are arguing for principle position. they had a compact, part of coming into power, if you will, was, hey, we re going to repeal obamacare and we re going to fix it with certain solutions. none of that is in this bill. so this farcical story line that, oh, yeah, this is going to repeal obamacare. well, no, you re keeping in a great deal of taxes to pay for all the goodies you want to hand out to convince moderates that, oh, yeah, you can slide on medicaid. i don t know how
ca lives will be jeopardedealth we will continue to resee preexisting conditions and illnesses threatens and get to the place where you re paying more and getting less health kash. they can make all of the statements they want, we have to deal with it. what i m seeing isn t going to help montana or other states. i ve spoken to your counterparts from kentucky and arkansas, states that have benefited from what s happened in obamacare, there are none of you governors or senators for that matter who think there aren t real fixes needed for obamacare, particularly where it comes to individual markets. as for this medicaid expansion, for those of you in the states that have had medicaid expansion, what s the discussion that s going on there and how do you get that message to your senators so that your represented in this discussion in washington before this bill