that s correct. we had substantial changes and we still have a large group that s committed to know until they really can review the details and see where were going with all of this. we re not there yet but i can tell you were working on it.nd sean: congressman, where are you on this? hats off to our chairman for just a phenomenal job negotiating, he spent on the phone with president trump daily multiple times a day. they re both doing a tremendous, job. just for the folks out there, we started from a position that we are going to keep our promise t and repeal this bill. the language that we are going to repeal and then replace. i just want to ensure the folks out there when they hear about a deal, that s a deal has to at the very minimum now lower the cost curve for health insurance for the people out there. there s a heavy lift out there, we are negotiating that heavy lift.
yes? it needs to happen in hours if it s going to pass the vote tonight. i m giving it to you. any package of health regulations that can be struck from the bill that lower the price of health care and we re to a yes. but lower means lower, right? that s it. and that s also there s the key right there. are you comfortable moving forward with any vote tonight if you don t have an updated cost estimate from cbo? yeah, no, we re waiting. cbo is not what matters. what matters is bending the cost curve down. if we see policy, right, we all get policy. so cbo score isn t essential. you were just citing the cost estimate from cbo in talking about why the cost curve wasn t going to bend. so do you need to see the cbo report to trust that any changes to this bill will bend the curve? when you have a macro structure that follows obamacare logic, i didn t need cbo to tell me prices were going to go up in the first place, i knew that, okay? when you retain federal mandates
yes because we want president trump to have a successful agenda. but in order to get to yes, we have to bring the cost curve down. that s as simple as it is. you can tell how busy a day it is in washington whether the camera people can actually walk and hold their camera steady at the same time. in this case they cannot. which means it is a busy day in washington. i heard congressman dave brat there member of the freedom caucus saying they are not there. the house whip, congressman mchenry also sayinghey have nothing from the white house but the white house has made their nal offer, take it orally it. just to give you an idea of the state of things on capitol hill right now and how fraught this debate is getting between republicans and delts a reporter asked senator roberts if he experts scrapping the essential health benefits and he said i wouldn t want to lose my
examples. 22% overall, but 145% in phoenix, arizona, as we were just looking at on the screen, 71% in birmingham, alabama, and 67% in oklahoma city, oklahoma. let me just tell you, news flash for everybody, that health insurance premiums always go up. that is not in dispute. what we re trying to do is reduce the growth from one year to the next of health care. it s called bending the cost curve economists would refer to it as. if you look at the medicare program for example, since the passage of the affordable care act, premiums have gro by 1.4% since 2010. prior to that, micare was growing at 7.5%. so, the objective of bending the cost curve, generally, has succeeded. now, the examples that you cite,
he wants shopping across state lines and to pend the cost curve down. that s the major things he wants. it won t happen in this plan. you cannot shop across state lines in this plan. that s why putting bucket two the insurance piece is essential, right? the young people and senior citizens, it gets complex. the overstate lines, speaker ryan doesn t think that can be part of this during reconciliati reconciliation. that s part of the issue, isn t it? that s not true. go talk to harvard scholar ted cruz, the parliamentarian will rule on that. if you have vice president pence in the chair, he can say thank you for your counsel, let s vote. 51 votes in the senate put it through. the senate is kind of the slower moving body. they re having tea over there. they get nervous about these kind of things, right? this is managing one-fifth of the economy, to put the tv cameras on them with the parliamentarian live, i think