vulnerable republican senator in 2018 and his concerns with the biller with medicaid. this concerned the cut rack in the rollback of the expansion in 2021 will have harmful effects. it turned getting more spending to help the medicaid expansion and go back to a really tall order that the medicaid funding is an issue that the pullback a lot in this bill. dean heller will want more money and more federal funding to help the people in nevada. rand paul has been outspoken about health care from the beginning. rand paul is the most frustrated. he considers that obamacare light. he doesn t like the tax credit, how people afford insurance. he doesn t like he thinks they don t go far enough in rolling back medicaid. he wants a complete overhaul, complete repeal and he s the
right now you re a no vote. the four of us said we cannot support the bill. i m not a yes for it. i need a lot more information. is a week enough time to figure out whether you can support this package? i have my doubts. the pressure on senator mcconnell started early this morning. protesters summoned wheelchairs sitting outside the office. democrats reeling against the bill. these cuts are blood money. people will die. let s be very clear. senate republicans are paying for tax cuts for the wealthy with american lives. it s every bit as bad as the house bill. in some ways it s even worse. we re asking that the american people have more than a discussion draft, more than ten hours to debate. this is deplorable. the bill repeals the individual mandate, phases out the medicaid expansion, removes
it s a $1.5 trillion tax cut for rich people. if you re for that, vote for it. there s one provision for high income people. there s the medical device tax. do you think the manufacturers are eating that or passing it along to the customer who is are everybody in the middle class and everybody getting health care. that s characterization is wrong. there s a cut on capital gains for people that make more than $350,000 a year. there s a single provision of high investor for high income people. it s not hundreds of billions of dollars. by cutting medicaid. you don t have to take my word for it or doug s word for it. go read it. that s the best thing that democrats have is that people will look at it. can i throw in my two cents? it s your show. i think you should. i m that s a much better.
medicaid across the country and you try to get more people to participate in the exchanges. that s the most important thing. the republican bill is not reasonable at all. if your objection is about the cost, why include massive tax cuts for high income people in it which are going to hammer at the budgetary cost and why do things that will increase the prices and going to hack away at the medicaid expansions which almost every one agrees were positive developments. all right. you want to respond. the medicaid expansions are unsustainable. we just going to do for poor people? this is what happens in the bill. first of all, there s an enormous amount of money, the cost sharing money that is put back into this for 2018, 2019. that s the cost for poor people. there s $80 billion in the first four years to stabilize these individual markets and target
low. the only way they can be successful in getting this health care bill passed is no one finds out the top wealthiest people get a tax break that comes out of addiction treatment and maternity care and grandma and grandpa to be in a medicaid supported nursing home bed. he doesn t want people to be able to get the details of the tax breaks for the wealthy and the harm that s done to the working poor. i got to go but thank you senator for joining us tonight. thank you, sir. thanks for having me on. one of the worst part of today s tweet s the president seems to be still floating theories about tapes. his tweet suggested that maybe someone else is recording those conversations. quote, with all of the recently reported electronic surveillance intercepted, unmasking and