will again raise the screen as the kind of people they want to take, even the direction of medicaid coming to them at this point? we seen that in obamacare. they re bailing out because it s been too expensive and they have their hands on the thoughtments of power. i don t sister to tell you that. so the positive thing about this bill that s truly positive is that it attempts to lower private insurance rates immediately by giving certainty to the insurance companies in that insurance market. for example, we found the cost fair i sharing reduction payments, that have been a big source of contention, insurance companies have been raising rates because they re not sure they re getting those payments. now they can set him down those rates. there is also $15 billion a year for the first two years to create so-called invisible high rick pools. if the insurance companies have high cost patients, aids, kidney failure, pros stated cancer, then there is 15ple to put in reinsurance pools so that
it s a new kind of network. xfinity mobile. we have republican senator bill cassidy of louisiana and tom brokaw. senator, first, let s obviously, there are a lot of people in your state that depend on obamacare, that depend on medicaid, just like rand paul, we had on healearlier.
doesn t go far enough we ll talk to him in a moment. but then you have the dean heller camp that says i can t go back with this prol of burr staj they re staying can t sort of the dean heller and rob portman camp? reporter: it s basically obamacare. they ve accepted that people who can t quite afford insurance and are medicaid are going to get federal help to buy insurance. that s what has rand paul so angry. i do think there s a private perception that rand paul might be the only hard no of this group four but that he may just be ungettable. and as you point out, the challenge on the other side is
are you going to vote to repeal obamacare and to put this plan in place, that the senate unveiled yesterday? i have not finished reviewing the plan. i m on page 97 of 142. so i ll be able to answer that before should you have probably been given access to that plan along with everybody else? if republicans are going to criticize barack obama for lack of transparency in 2009, shouldn t our party have been more transparent? joe, i m not going to defend the process. i don t think the process was the best. on the other hand, i can either curse the wind or put up a sail. so as much as i could, i tried to figure out what was in there, setting the stage for reading the bill. ultimately, we have to make sure patients are taken care of in a way that the federal and state taxpayer can sustain. if we can take care of patients and at the same time sustainable for the federal and state taxpayer, it will be a good bill. from what you ve read, what do you see? there are portions of it tha
covered him for years, what do you think is going through his mind with regard to past presidents not interfering with current presidencies, how eager is, if he is, to jump in on what s going on? i have to think this is somewhat frustrating to him. he s watching his successor come along and brick by brick, take a sledgehammer to his legacy. just yesterday plan to repeal obamacare, just a week or so ago, president trump said he was reversing at least part of his cuba policy. we ve seen the trade deal with asia thrown away, the paris climate accord. these are things that president obama is obviously unhappy that they re being dismantled. at the same time, though, he s struggling with how public to be. he thinks, i think, if he speaks out too much, that he creates he puts himself in the position of being the enemy that president trump might actually want. that president trump is looking for somebody to, you know,