Thats that this is a question of president ial leadership. At the end of the day, it will come down to the president of the United States being willing to lead in a big picture and in a more macro sense, make a decision what he can support and pull the trigger on it. Here was Lindsey Graham in our conversation just a few minutes ago. What the house sent over is unacceptable to me. The cres can i the militar chs kill the military. I appreciate House Colleagues but we need to get this done. Were inside the 10 yard line. We need a white house that can make a decision and stick to it. And andegreeia, Lindsey Graham has cultivated his relationship with the president and the attempted skill of talking to the president through the television. And i think theres a lot of message sending going on that look, the way out of this is for the president to live up to what he talks about as the tuesday
version of the president from last week when he seemed to embrace willingness to deal with a biparti
person to introduce it. he spruced it right after he authored social security. it took us 25 years to get medicare. then we got the children s health program. we got the affordable care act. life sometimes goes you keep making progress, moving forward. i believe i m here that ultimately every american has health care coverage. you take the win and start fighting again the very next day. i don t know what s going to happen on paid leave. we are only one of six countries in the world that doesn t have it. the average paid leave for women globally is 29 weeks. for men i think it s 16. maternity leave is 16 weeks. joe manchin made it clear this isn t going to be in the bill. he said the budget
she deducts from that what the feds now spend on medicare and medicaid plus 6 trillion that the states contribute to medicate, the state federal children s health program and government worker benefits. that leaves $30 trillion to finance. but senator warren waves her wand and says the bill will really be 20.5 trillion. it goes on. the question i have for you is that i think that people are clued into this type of thing. just like the polls show that the ukraine scandal is actually something that compute as not good, that the cost of this does seem unrealistic, it seems confusing. people have been through a lot with healthcare. they don t like another huge change that could be risky to them actually receiving healthcare. i think that s i think that s well put, mika, because throughout the battle of obamacare, there was always this uneasiness about what it meant and what it would do to individuals, their families, the
entitlement to those supports for cash poor children and replaced it with a citizeny policy that allows for the government to regulate these family. i would call it a behavior moichks program not a family support program. we saw this in the health care debate. we saw that we created political footballs out of children s health program support to needy families can children. we decided it s okay to toy with this stuff? that s right. the proposals are to cut billions of dollars from the health care needs of children and their parents. and not we have to think of the family as a unit. of course children aren t going to be well cared for if their parents are sick. another place it s important to note the u.s. stand out among all developed advanced democracys in the world, but also among many developing countries is the high rates of maternity mortality in the united states, which is a function of the very low quality