he campaigned on his business record on his bill to make better deals than politicians in the past have. does the president view the spending bill as a good deal? yes. sean, can you say that no one with a pre-existing condition will not pay more? i think we ve done everything we can to do that. and every measure that the president has taken further not only ensures that people with pre-existing conditions get covered in every scenario but also bends the cost curve down. can you guarantee it? with you ll due respect, i can t guarantee something but everything that the president has done, including the action that he took this morning to work with members of congress does everything by every account to bend the cost curve down to help anybody that would potentially fall into that small group of individuals to get to bend the cost curve down who
that he took this morning to work with members of congress does everything by every account to bend the cost curve down to help anybody that would potentially fall into that small group of individuals to get to bend the cost curve down who have pre-existing conditions. so the answer is, yes, we have done everything possible to get that thing down and ensure that, number one, the potential is as small as possible. it covers people with pre-existing conditions, number one. it does everything to ensure if a state seek as waiver that they are still covered. it looks at every single possibility to ensure that people get the care that they need. you criticized president obama rushing through his health care plan. is this not being rushed through, the legislation hasn t been put up for public debate, this latest piece of legislation? every piece of legislation evolves. we had a piece that makes it a
the action he took this morning to work with members of congress, does everything by every account to bend the cost curve down to help everybody that would potentially fall into that small group of individuals to bend the cost curve down who have a preexisting condition. the answer, you know, is yes, that we have done every single thing possible to get that down and ensure that, number one, that potential is as small as possible. the bill covers people with preexisting conditions, number one. number two, it does everything to ensure that if a state seeks a waiver, they are still covered. but it looks at every single possibility to ensure that people get the care that they need. you criticized former president obama rushing through his health care plan. is this not being rushed through? this legislation hasn t even been scored yet by the cpo or put up for public debate, this latest piece of legislation. every piece of legislation evolves as it goes through the process.
the title i regulations. are you moving the goalpost? no, that s the normal narrative, when you want to apply political precious. i taught economics for 20 years. i ve been on the press, i ve been with you guys over a month, there s nothing new here. if you don t bend the cost curve down, paul ryan sais out in public, he s a free market guy, at the end of the day everybody is putting a little political pressure on but no one is moving the goalposts at all. the conservative house study committee is pushing a couple of things. we re ensuring the big picture has to be right, the price of health care has to go down. we re not utopian on this, we re negotiating in a framework that s anything but free market. even though you re not going to tell me right now, are there a couple of things in your mind that you can tell the president, if he gives it to you, you re a
it will be the real deal and were doing this because we want president trump to be successful. if we don t get the cost curve down, it will end up with death spirals again in a few years, this time will own it. it s a win-win. when i try to hold things up. sean: both of you told me and you are very firm about this. congressman meadows specifically told me that the reason you re fighting for this is for the president s sake. he can t have his name on a bill you said that s going to end up in a bad way.n your motivation was to get it right. it s really about the american people, sean and what we look at this its commitment from the president to lower insurance premiums to repeal this to make sure that those pre-existing conditions are taken care of. it s all about making sure that we get it right for the american people, and i can tell you he s got a board on all the campaign promises, and he s checking