so this morning we re following a new flash point in the fight over abortion rights. the last remaining abortion provider in missouri, the planned parenthood in st. louis sounding the alarm at new state rules are taking effect. starting this week any time an inspector finds a violation, they can report it to social services. it reckulates medicaid in the state. they can yank medicaid for that planned parenthood. that affects other services like cancer screenings and other services. take us inside that fight, and what this means for the thousands of women there and people really who depend on medicaid. planned harnt pood says they are considering legal action here, but really they say they need the biden administration to speak out on this. obviously this is dealing with federal funding.
philosophical and then say, well, actually, no longer. well i don t think he said no longer. he didn t say no longer. is there any chance that there is a risk of him flipping on this issue? no. and in politics there is an old saying, christi, when you explain, you lose. now, the most important thing is that former vice president biden is a strong supporter of abortion rights. so the core issue here is whether or not this hyde management is impacts the core position that biden, as every democrat person running for president now has to protect and support abortion rights. the federal funding issue erodes that right for women who depend on medicaid, that state federal program. i don t think there is any risk now of biden publicly saying he
the senate bill may be meaner. the senate republican health care bill is a a wolf in sheep s clothing. only this wolf s teeth are even sharper than in the house bill. somewhere in america, mr. president, there s a family who takes a trip each friday to visit grandma or grandpa in a nursing home, who sacrificed all of their savings to pay for their health care until they had no more savings, and now they rely on medicaid to help pay the cost of long-term care in the nursing home. somewhere in america, president trump, there s a father who s eaten up inside watching his son struggle with opioid addiction, who knows in his heart that his son would be able to go on and live a healthy and fulfilling life if he could only afford treatment to get him out from under the devastating addiction.
cbo, $880 billion over ten years for medicaid, these would be more dramatic cuts. now regulations, these were a huge issue in the house, obviously a very big issue for conservatives, as well. they took a different track. they didn t do the state waivers like the house bill did. they tried to use an existing affordable care act waiver to give states the ability to get out of things like the essential health benefits, the top line ten benefits required in every obamacare plan. that could help, but they don t touch pre-existing conditions or try not to. something that essentially by extension they did in the house bill. those are the key areas there. they prerepeal the taxes and employer mandate. those were always going to be in play here. i think the question remains as they try and give a little bit here and a little bit there to the specific ideological polls of their conference, does it result in 50 votes? i can tell you senator susan collins, one of the key moderates, put a statement
at dire risk maternity care, mental health coverage, by allowing states even more latitude to get out of covering essential health benefits. fourth, itty de-funds planned parenthood making it hard for millions of women to afford the health care they need and deserve. why are they doing all this? to provide a giant tax break for the wealthiest americans. simply put, the bill will result in higher costs, less care, millions of americans will lose their health insurance, particularly through medicaid. it s every bit as bad as the house bill. in some ways even worse. the president has said that the senate bill needed heart. the way this bill cuts health care is heartless. the president said the house bill was mean.