point plan. 43 members of congress are all getting behind it. we have been talking to senators and others. we really believe this will solve the initial crisis with time running out until 2018 and provide space to continue to discuss the future on a variety of other issues in this complex thing called health care. okay. representative schrader, where does this stand, then? you have come up with a plan. what s in the plan and where does it go from here? it s five basic points that were in a lot of the republican plans, a lot of the democratic plans we have had out there for quite some time now. basically to make sure there s a stabilization fund to deal with the higher risk individuals that are skewing that individual marketplace that martha talked about, make sure those cost sharing subsidies are in play for the very low income folks that just can t even afford a co-pay or even a small deductible. help small business, peeling back some of the employer mandate, give a little breathi
down to appeal, and even letting obamacare implode by cutting off the cost sharing subsidies, and not paying them. a bipartisan group of lawmakers want to prevent, that and proposed ways to preserve the health care market like fully fund cost sharing reduction payment to insurers, and also, to change the employer mandate to only apply to the companies with 500 or more employee, and so there are some of the ideas there. and joining me is representative elizabeth estee of connecticut can, and what is the solutions, and i listed some of them, right. what is going to be fixing, and set the issue that you are look at, it is the private side of a aca and how to the fix that. absolutely, and the big issue that we are looking at, richard,
bipartisan compromise. we hear a lot of talk about that. but i want to test you on what really you would be willing to give up to help work with republicans. as you know, you re on the committee that is trying to tackle all of this. you re chairman, he has some ideas. let me see which ones you re cup table. funding he would like for the cost sharing subsidies this is the one et present doesn t like. this is where it sounds like president alexander is crossing the divide to agree with democrats. and it was what the law required. there s an argue. is it required or is it vol unteu untear. we need to do in a. republicans say a court decided that was actually not constitutional or legal. so, there s the debate. reinsurance. the one i want to get to here.
resources to investigate and sue what it considers offending universities. a bipartisan push to pump new life into health care reform is starting to take shape. two senators say they are holding hearings next month aimed at stabilizing the obamacare health insurance markets. alexander urging president trump not to stop paying obamacare s cost sharing subsidies despite his threat to cut that funding. i have urged again that president trump temporarily continue the cost reduction payments through september so that congress can work on short term solution for stabilizing the individual markets in 2018. now, this is the first tangible sign that republicans are movingway fromrump s demands to take another shot at repeal after efforts fell apart last week in the house. at least two republicans, they re teaming up with
trump s demands to take another shot at repeal after efforts fell apart last week. at least two republicans are teaming up with democrats to fund cost sharing subsidies which allow insurers to cut costs for millions of americans. approval to christopher ray as the next fbi director. he was confirmed by a 92-5 vote. when he was fired by president trump over the russia investigation. the vote was very bipartisan by today s standards but the five democrats who opposed are far and away the most to ever vote against an fbi director. only one senator has ever voted against one wherever when rand paul opposed james come y. jeff sessions assuring the black national organization of black law organization.