they ve reduced the funding associated with outreach and advertising as well. what this would do, the alexander-murray bill, would provide cost-sharing reductions. before somebody says, this is a bail out for the insurance companies, let me remind you and the viewers that this is really about stabilizing the marketplace, ensuring that there s enough money to make sure that the insurance companies are not dropping out of the market place. that they re able to keep the costs down, particularly for those conditions, and if the cost-sharing reductions go away, what will happen is that the premium assistance that comes from the federal government in the form of the past credit, will increase the deficit. in my opinion, we need to do this first and then come together and figure out a way to fix the affordable care act. kelly: kevin, i have to get
what are you hearing from your constituents? what do they want to see happen? well, people really just want to figure out how are we going to control costs. i hear again and again and again people don t want to roll back coverage. almost everybody knows somebody who s got a disability or chronic illness. a lot of these people, they re not just in cities, they re rural areas, in the suburbs, and i think what we re getting to and i think senator alexander and senator murray are working on a bipartisan bill which is a lot of what us bipartisan governors have been recommending to really figure out and make sure that the cost-sharing reductions go on for a couple of years, these incentives that allow insurance companies to kind of stay in the private market. they re allowing us to look at ways to stabilize this private market. once we do that, then we begin rolling up our sleeves and saying how are we going to get a handle on this kind of crazy inflation that s been going on for 30 years
harder in the sense the devil is in the details and no matter what you and fellow governors right in washington, talk about tax cuts? that is certainly true. it is easier to talk about tax cuts but healthcare affect everybody. it has been eat our lunch for three decades and this might be the time we find both sides willing to work together. we don t want to make the loser and they don t want to make is a loser. put politics aside and cost-sharing reductions. they are just an incentive to make sure people can afford health insurance. overall they save individuals money but also the federal government. by restoring the csrs it won t cost them a penny. andrea: we are going to fact check that. otherwise there would be tax
welcome to both of you. so this plan would undo what the president and the department of health and human services did last week, which is namely to defund those cost sharing reductions they re called, simon. the payments that go directly to insurance companies to help pay for policies for uninsured americans. if the president doesn t like those plans and this is congress s way to reinstate them isn t the law doomed from the start? the president was first enthusiastic about it and then withdraw his support. for the republicans it would be smart politics. it will make the american healthcare system better. what they did last night passing their budget was strip $150 billion out of medicare and medicaid next year and over the next 10 years that will have an impact of tens of
what you saw were significant divisions between republicans on health care policy. the reality of this is, the affordable care act requires these insurers to offer these essentially breaks on cost-sharing to lower income americans so what president trump did is he said look, congress needs to actually appropriate this money, congress never appropriated money for the cost-sharing subsidies so it is congress job which is why lamar alexander and patty murray deserve credit for engaging in these discussions. didn t the president take it further and say i don t support it even if congress moves that way that s why it s going nowhere now. the president initially said i like the idea of a bipartisan deal and then apparently he didn t. the reality is, the president is going to have to weigh in on this positively if it s going to get across the finish line with rirns republicans. his influence and measure of support for a bipartisan deal will be tremendously important to doing this. i thin