especially if patients demand increased substantially because many previously uninsured people received coverage. how providers respond to such changes demand for their services remains uncertain, the decline being provider payment rates. do you agree that is true? exactly right. the congressional budget office didn t put out a specific dollar estimate primarily because democrats haven t asked cbo for a specific estimate, they don t want to know the answer but we do know if provider rates, in the healthcare sector. if provider payments are not reduced, that is another $32 trillion. heather: these 2020 candidates have to be aware of these numbers and this is not anything sustainable or can be supported. why are they making the suggestions? that the good point.
secretary tom price in some of those meetings. price and pence have known some of these skeptical republicans for years. they appear to be some of the more moderate members. they didn t make big public announcements they love any new language in the bill like the new long vsh upton amendment to spend $8 billion more on covering people with pre-existing conditions but the freedom caucus leader jim jordan tells me that conservatives are still on board and that leadership can count on the freedom caucus to back this ahca today. shannon: do we have any idea how much this bill is going to cost? there have been a lot of questions how quickly it has come together, whether we have any estimates. no idea. the congressional budget office didn t have time to put the price tag on it. democrats are mad about that and using bad words to make
over where the labor market and the aca intersect and then anything else you want to add about the other aca issue we just mentioned. well, the congressional budget office didn t say people would lose their jobs, they said going into the future there will be some people who will not go into the labor market. some people are in the labor market just to be able to get health insurance. they need to do that anymore, but what the cbo did not take into consideration is that we ll have lower deficits because the health care costs will not increase as rapidly, and that that will help spur private investments and more jobs as a result. republicans just hate this law. they are doing everything they can since the very day that the president announced it to stop it from passing and now to undermine it, and we have voted, i don t know, over 45 times to repeal it on the house floor. you have to wonder why are they so obsessed with just repealing the law that is going to offer
offer the spending and deficit cuts that republicans thought it would. cnn s chief white house correspondent jessica yellin spends the next 18 seconds giving us the big picture. reporter: what s happening now is democrats are waiting. they re just waiting to see what happens with the republican s bill before making their own move in the senate. the big picture here is neither the republican s bill in the house nor the democrats bill in the senate seems to have the votes to get through both houses of congress. so we re back at stalemate. and so it s wednesday and there s no deal. the ted line is tuesday of next week. if congress can t get it done by then, you could start to see higher interest rates, a declining dollar and other problems. the white house website has put up a chart that breaks down the u.s. debt by administration over the last ten years. i was just looking at it. more than $3.5 trillion because of changes to the economy, not policy changes, but less tax in
contribution, towards what their employees are receiving in terms of taxpayer funded people will get tax cuts the business will contribute to that much less than if they were providing it themselves. greta: one to ten, ten being the most certain that the numbers you have in your bill are going to save us money? there s a lot of numbers floating around. here s what i know, i don t know if i would put a number on it. what the congressional budget office didn t count are things that i think are the biggest savings. preventive health, making sure somebody can see a family doctor rather than walk into an emergency room. making sure we change the way we provide an incentive. the incentives are to keep us healthy rather than different procedures that is going to save a lot of money. greta: next, no doubt about