the trump administration s wavering on what are known as cost sharing reductions, subsidize out of pocket costs for americans. mississippi announced an average increase of 47% specifically pointing to the administration s refusal to guarantee those future payments. with just over three months for americans. mississippi announced an average increase of 47% specifically pointing to the administration s refusal to guarantee those future payments. with just over three months until open enrollment, the man driving all of the sabotage campaign may not last that long. while tom price s days could be numbered, next.
and use them against them as they were trying to appeal the affordable care act. they may start rolling some of those out. some of these negotiations have already begun. senator lamar alexander who heads the health, labor and pensions committee, he s been working with senator patty murray on a bipartisan plan to get these cost-sharing reductions. we talked about them previously in the health care debate, but getting these written into law so the insurance companies have some certainty that they are going to get the payments, the federal payments they use to take down the cost of out-of-pocket expenses for the lowest income people. those talks have been ongoing. they seem to be making progress but senator alexander pulled out of those talks when it looked like momentum was building for cassidy graham. they may go back to the negotiating table and that may be the first time we see a real bipartisan effort on health care. i had the hunch as kelsey was
republican failure to repeal and replace. anthem a private company insurer is about to pull out of 9 of the 14 states they are. in they can t do it? they already said they are pulling out of nine. they are saying potentially two more if they don t get cost sharing reductions. that s true they are not making a profit. whether we do a temporary stop gap to fund them to keep it going until we figure out how we are going to fix healthcare? i m not sure. they will have to deal with that in washington. brian: who is interested in the socialist democrat? who is in the 70 s and never accomplished anything legislatively, backing him camella harris, al franken, corey booker and elizabeth warren, the so-called big stars on the democratic side, the party harass gone flying to the left. dr. nicole saphier, thank you so much. thanks for having me. brian: coming up straight ahead, firing back an espn host calls the president a white supremacist. the next guest who worked for that network says the
we need to eliminate the uncertainty. here they came forward giving information to the united states government after daca was enacted, and then, now they re facing this kind of uncertainty. which is just unfair and immoral. i strongly disagree with the president s decision. and i think we should be protecting the dreamers and i m very hopeful we ll have bipartisan support for doing just that. a couple of other quick issues. number one, there s going to be something very unusual on capitol hill today. a bipartisan hearing on health care reform. this is something i can t remember the last time we saw such a remarkable thing. give me odds that congress could pass funding to fund these subsidies to insurance companies the there is 7 billion to provide insurance for low income americans. of the. what we know is there s bipartisan support for continuing and insuring the cost sharing reductions, which be subsidies that help everyday americans afford deductibles out
sure get paid. this has nothing to with congress, but the insurers have to make a decision as to what their premiums are going to beer for the next year and if the payments are not continued that s an existential threat to obamacare. in other words, the president has a way of killing obamacare without congress. that s right. when insurance companies don t know what to do, they just charge more money. so there s an estimated 20% additional premium and everybody s premium that s for this. so congress can actually take this one out of president trump s hands by what they decide to do and in this hearing today if both parties come together and decide we will pay cost sharing reductions for the next two years they will fix this years. there s other things that they re monkeying around with. they cut the marketing budget by 90%. so the congress really has to step up and act because i think the president has demonstrated he s not willing to support this