people with preexisting conditions. president trump kept the focus on the individual mandate repeal tweeting later in the day, remember, the most hated part of obamacare is the individual mandate which is being terminated under our just signed tax cut bill. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell didn t say obamacare is dead today. here he is calling on senators to work together on health care legislation. the graham/cassidy proposal, they intend to obviously continue to work on. and my view of that is as soon as we have the votes to achieve it i d like to do that. 51-49 is a pretty tight majority. but i d love to be able to make more substantial changes to obamacare than we have. joining us now is julie robner chief correspondent at kaiser health news and understands this stuff better than almost anyone. julie, the failing of american
people with preexisting conditions. president trump kept the focus on the individual mandate repeal tweeting later in the day, remember, the most hated part of obamacare is the individual mandate which is being terminated under our just signed tax cut bill. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell didn t say obamacare is dead today. here he is calling on senators to work together on health care legislation. the graham/cassidy proposal, they intend to obviously continue to work on. and my view of that is as soon as we have the votes to achieve it i d like to do that. 51-49 is a pretty tight majority. but i d love to be able to make more substantial changes to obamacare than we have. joining us now is julie robner chief correspondent at kaiser health news and understands this stuff better than almost anyone.
mandate which is being terminated under our just signed tax cut bill. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell didn t say obamacare is dead today. here he is calling on senators to work together on health care legislation. the graham/cassidy proposal, they intend to obviously continue to work on. and my view of that is as soon as we have the votes to achieve it i d like to do that. 51-49 is a pretty tight majority. but i d love to be able to make more substantial changes to obamacare than we have. joining us now is julie robner chief correspondent at kaiser health news and understands this stuff better than almost anyone. julie, the failing of american health care compared to other wealthy countries around the world is that we do not have an adequately large and diverse risk pool for people who wish to buy insurance outside of their workplace.
expansion and protections for people with preexisting conditions. president trump kept the focus on the individual mandate repeal tweeting later in the day, remember, the most hated part of obamacare is the individual mandate which is being terminated under our just signed tax cut bill. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell didn t say obamacare is dead today. here he is calling on senators to work together on health care legislation. the graham/cassidy proposal, they intend to obviously continue to work on. and my view of that is as soon as we have the votes to achieve it i d like to do that. 51-49 is a pretty tight majority. but i d love to be able to make more substantial changes to obamacare than we have. joining us now is julie robner chief correspondent at kaiser health news and understands this stuff better than almost anyone. julie, the failing of american
legislation would lead to higher premiums, shelby. go to you in a second. frank thorpe is joining us also by phone. capitol hill producer, keeping a whip count. third vote effectively kills the graham/cassidy proposal. all three of these republicans vote against, lose the votes they need to pass it. basically expected. susan collins had been telegraphing idea she would be voting no for days now, even at end of last week but waiting for cbo score, from the congressional budget office about the budgetary effects of the bill. now the question is whether or not they vote at all. decision that leadership will have to make tomorrow. republicans will meet tomorrow for lunch and decide whether or not to put themselves through