basic health care provider for women. if you asked a woman who is your doctor, they think about their obgyn before they think about a general practitioner. medicaid pays for half of the births in this country, and they re defunding medicaid. we really have to go, steph has seven shows tomorrow, you will see her all day long. you ll be watching tomorrow morning at 9:00 and 11:00. coming up, a break in the ranks for their leader, but nancy pelosi says she is not going anywhere. we ll be right back.
exchanges and also keep in mind the lobby, the health care lobby is three and a half to four times bigger than any other lobbying effort out there. mitch mcconnell met with lobbyists in the health care industry before meeting with the 13 members of senate who are writing this with him. but if you re a hospital out there you see a temporary boon, maybe this is a positive. when people go to the emergency room, especially in low income areas, medicaid pays for that. if people are without that coverage hospitals are still going to see people who need emergency care. so at the end of the day this is a repeal with no replace. you are making massive cuts really to pay for the corporate tax cuts which is really what the president wants to do. it s like replace with what? let me ask you that, i think my theory on president trump s instinct on health care, they were not that far from president obama, i remember sean hannity said what do you think we should
that far. i would say i m going to do my best to push back as hard as they re going to push on their side. i do have concerns, particularly in the area of medicaid. i m going to go back and read the bill. i ll be reading it all weekend long. with me now, associated press correspondent, erika warner, and under secretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs and full-time managing editor, and our own msnbc, brilliant about everything, especially health care. erica, i want to start with you because you worked for a lot of the same of senators we just saw. if you make it more appealing to the four conservatives that pulled away today, jonathan, cruz, paul and lee, you lose colins and merkowski.
pair medical care for all. you didn t think obamacare went far enough? it needed a public option oh so you had true competition. we added a public option to the worker workers a compensation in plan in oregon. cutting the cost in half machine rhode island copied oregon cut the cost in rhode island in half. we should have had a public but i think the complexity of the health care it creates so much stress. medicaid, medicare, the exchange, the exchange for worker s co worker s com and so forth. the people that need it most understand it the least pch i want to ask the politics about this. are you privately routing for mitch mcconnell s bill to pass and be able to run against