caucus is committed to working with the president to get this done. this artificial deadline that we have at this particular point of a vote tonight actually is something that we imposed on ourselves. i am very encouraged and optimistic that, if we continue to work together, and by that, we plan to reach out to some of the members of the tuesday group to have some real discussions on how we can come together and have consensus realizing there are different motivations for different members of our conference. aren t you handing the president a loss? what s the procedure now going forward to try to what s the sort of the further discussions to take place, what s on the table? the procedures for going forward are still fundamental and have not changed for the last couple of weeks. if we can make sure that there is an adequate safety net, that preexisting conditions are taken care of, where truly premiums start to go down for moms a
what we want to do is fix the remedies of the broken affordable care act that is going to throw people off. it s unsustainable. we want to go something right for the american people. i have confidence that we re going to do it. i don t know if we ll do it today but i know we ll get it done. what are you specifically hung up on? i mean, the white house is saying this is it, the vote is going to happen tonight and they believe they gave you we don t know what happened in that room. maybe you can shed some light on what happened in that room at the white house. did they give you something to work with? it s still in an ongoing process. it s still negotiating. there s a give and take type of deal. one of the big things and i heard one of your commentators talking about the essential health benefits. i think that s something that has to go away for me to be cler to a yes. it hasn t gone away yet? i m sorry to interrt. my understanding is that was on the table and and going to be tak
a yes, but, indeed, we ve made very reasonable requests and we re hopeful those reasonable requests will be listened to and ultimately agreed to. vote today for the vote to go down? there s not enough votes as of 1:30 today. will you delay it? i m expecting we re going to negotiate in good fate to hopefully get to a yes before 7:00 tonight. reporter: so, the good news in that, indicate, hopefully get to a yes keeps this ball in play. at the same time if you look at the most conservetic group, historically they ve went the toughest to move. so hab the white house will look from republicans from hillary clinton won districts or more blue-leaning parts of the country who are not on board and look to find something to atrablgt th aattract them. at this point it appears to be
people from the other side fall out. it s a tricky deal. the fact it has to be done through reconciliation with very strict rules, there s only certain things that we can send to the senate that they can pick up with 51 votes. it s a struggle to get it right. i still think we ll get there. is it a tweet for the trump administration? no, no. if it ends up we re not able to do something, it would be but its not. to be fair to the president, it would be more of a defeat of the republican conference. look, we have 238-odd votes with the vacancies. we ought to be able to get 218 to fill a basic promise. this bill has improved tramdyly along the way. i think you could make a pretty good argument it s a lot better than obamacare. it s not going to be finished, whatever this vote is. it has to go to the united states senate. i think it would be a cardinal mistake to kill the baby in the cradle, so to speak.
around. a man won t have to buy something that includes marnitcoverage. what s wrong wh that? so, ali covered it really nicely by covering the risk pool. it s really important to remember that you could try to say, well, we could shop around and get lower plans. this is exactly what we had before 2010 when you ll remember that people shopped around and actually got plans that had barely any coverage. and then when they really need haesh health care, because we can never predict when we need health care, they found those cheaper insurance plans didn t cover it. let me say about the whole issue with men, you know, paying for women s services, in general, as we get older, women tend to be healthier. men have always tended to be a little sicker. we could actually see people being discriminated and paying even more out of pocket if you were, let s say, an older man. interesting. so, it s not the whole