over the period of seven or eight years, that drops down to just cpi. consumer pricece index. over that period of time, the individuals that would transition from medicaid to theh private market would then be able to have the coverage that they want. and if they needed it because of their low income would be subsidized by what s called a stability fund. more choices, lower costs, strengthening medicare. making it so we can have patient-centered health care in the system. tucker: not fewer people covered by health insurance. i believe, there s no way to predict it, cba has a terrible record on predicting how much coverage, but i believe thater there would be more people, more individuals being able to be covered with the system currently being contemplated in the senate than currently. tucker: who loses? you ve described who wins, but someone always loses, who loses? the folks who want government to run your health care, they lose. tucker: who are they? they are the folks in
actually above 50% now that we are debating. they wanted to go away and it s important to know why. they want it to go away because prices are up, choices are down, folks don t have the kind of coverage they want. they may have a card but theyt. don t have care because they can can t afford the deductible. there are all sorts of an array of things that are wrong withe, obamacare, with the aca and t that s what we re trying to fix. it s not just through this bill, that s what s important for people to appreciate as well. if it s an isolated activity, it s an important one. it s vital to have it but it s only one isolated activity that s going in place with his administration to make it tucker: i think it s worth paying attention to. how would trump voters be affected by it? west virginia for example, 68% of west virginia voted for donald trump. about 30% of the whole state is on medicaid. this legislation i think would reduce payments, i think that s fair to say. how would they
by and large, the individuals tucker: who loses money on this? the money gets spread differently and the amount of money is actually more because as i said the increase in medicaid is upping consumer price index in individuals are able to select the kind of coverage they want. choices make it so that the market of health coverage, if you will, response to patients, not to insurance companies and not to government. that s the key. tucker: how far are we for single payer nationally from catastrophic coverage. honestly. i m hearing conservatives who have always been against single-payer for catastrophic coverage?? i think the consequences of that actually reduce the ability for you to get the kind of coverage you want for the services. tucker: that may be right, this is a political question. i think the answer has toto wait until the outcome of this debate. if the congress and the president are able the congress is able to pass a billl and put it on the president s desk,
this bill is. is it to improve health outcomes, to control prices, or to expand coverage? sticking to the principles of health care, making it affordable and accessible of the highest quality and providing choices for patients. protects patients, provides more choices, lowers costs and it strengthens medicaid. that s it in a nutshell. tucker: but you didn t add to that expanded coverage? coverage comes when people have something that they want to purchase. coverage doesn t come when washington tells you what to buy. the way that you get people to get health coverage and that you provide them with a product that they actually want. if that s purpose of this bill is. tucker: i don t know the answer to this because i haven t seen the polling, but is there evidence that people in the last election voted to replace democratic leadership with donald trump because they wanted more choices? and health care? they certainly wanted obamacare to go away. tucker: for sure. never broke 5
canadians. tucker: so there s an effort online in canada to raise money for the family of christopher speer, tabitha speer. but also for the other soldier. speerkids.ca. . you have to understand is that this is not a partisan political issue, this is something that people who actually voted for this government are saying i m not comfortable with. you have to understand that canada values the relationships that we have in terms of our men and women in uniform serving shoulder to shoulder with each other. i think there s a lot of people going how did this happen and why? is a question for our prime minister to answer. tucker: why wouldn t he call the widow of christopher speer? again, i m sure that something he should answer for, but i know that our former prime minister stephen harper has reached out to her. i can t imagine being her right now and listening to all of this coverage and having to have