is that the one that s going to stick? mike lee was part of the cruz-lee amendment and suddenly he walked off stage right, way right? it was surprising when he was the one that came out against it. you re right, he and cruz had gotten together. they wanted to see a bill that brings premiums down. it s true that the bill they re considering would lower premiums to a degree in the future because insurers would be able to celiner plans. it s a little unclear why he chickened out at the end. the conservative groups were putting pressure on him to hold fast and say all of obamacare needs to be repealed. that s why they pushed for these extra opt-outs for insurers. now he s going along with this repeal-only idea. now mcconnell seems to be swayed by that and is considering bringing that to the floor. that probably wouldn t pass either. hadas, very quickly, how often do you see a senator, orrin hatch, take a whack at a senator, mike lee? that s not widely done when they re both in the same
that they fail at this, you know the fear. they don t get the tax thing done. i think this is going to get it s going to hurt their agenda. your previous guests was saying they can t run from it. all republicans, moderate or conservative, the failure to valve s promise is going to be a very damaging thing to the party. i do believe that if they cannot do what they promised, at the very least, again, we need to keep a private insurance market going, allow states to create a better situation so that over time, as we are doing with the education and other issues at the state level, we can see how to do this right. but if they don t adopt the cruz-lee amendment or something like it, we re going to have a single-payer system. neil: thank you very much. i always appreciated.
they re not voting for this bill, two republicans, i don t know how they get everybody over. we will get a cbo score on monday, but i want to break down this bill yet further for you because that s what we do here. andy is the former acting administer for in the senators for medicare and medicaid officers. andy, i don t know how much of a chance you ve had to look at the revisions to this bill, but the politics aside, the part that garrett is talking about aside, one of the things that will interest most people is that it s got this cruz lee amendment that says that as long as you offer some policy that meets the obamacare standards of having the essential health benefits in them, you can offer other low value, low cost policies that don t. so, in other words, you could end upbringing the archl cost of policies down because there are $10 a month policies that basically don t get you much. right. so i think we have three basic take awaist coming out of this
out. i don t necessarily think there is a lot of appetite for that here. i this i this week is consumed by debate over the cruz lee amendment. a conservative package aimed at selling plans that don t meet obamacare requirements in an effort to lower premiums. that is what everybody is fighting about. we have senator flake he may support that. so i think that s the shape of the debate you will see over the course of the next couple of days. they are still hammering out details behind closed doors. i think the question is how many moderate members are there? i talked to is you is not collins today at some length. she said look, we need to start over entirely. i m watching the republican party make the same mistake when he passed obamacare with no republican support. so i think that s going to be kind of the push/pull tension going forward here. thanks so much. kasie hunt from capitol hill. if republicans don t fall in line they risk getting a