proposal next wednesday, it will drop right in the middle of a legislative battle to keep the government running and the possibility the president s health care plan may rise like a phoenix from the ashes. it is evolving, you know. there was never a give-up. the press sort of reported there was like a give-up. we started. remember, it took obama care 17 months. i ve been negotiating this for two months. reporter: sources tell fox news, the language of a new amendment could come as soon as tonight. congressman tom mcarthur and mark meadows have reached an agreement in principle on language that would preserve essential health benefits for subscribers, guaranteed coverage for preexisting conditions, allowing dependents to stay on their plan to age 26, regardless of health status. it will also allow states to opt out of provisions, in the interest of lowering premium
it ll happen. we ll see what happens. no particular rush, but we ll see what happens. but health care s coming along well, government is coming along really well. a lot of good things are happening. thank you, folks. you re going to get a health care vote next week? don t know. doesn t matter if it s next week. next week doesn t matter. reporter: there has been some progress on health care. the leaders of two house republican groups who clashed on the last bill have reached an agreement on language of a new amendment to the replacement plan, and that language would preserve essential health benefits for subscribers, it would guarantee coverage for pre-existing conditions, allow dependents to stay on their parents plan to age 26, it would keep insurance rates equal regardless of health status, but it would also allow states to seek limited waivers to opt out of those provisions. passing a health care bill and spending bill all in one week, that is a very tall order. but then pr
see, what we re not discussing is under the current plan states have options to go for waivers for many provisions under the affordable care act. what we re saying with this last reported issue that we have addressed is there still would be a requirement on ehbs and essential health benefits. i am not going to be for a plan that s going to allow for pre-existing conditions to not be covered. waivers can be requested, but that doesn t mean they re going to be. and they are very limited in this discussion. and if that becomes the discussion point, the key thing we lose sight over the fact that we are talking about covering pre-existing conditions. our plan covers those who want to remain on their parents insurance until age 26. our plan does not discriminate against those who have had a disease they didn t ask for like my wife had 18 years ago and implementing taxes.
his last version was wildly unpopular and was wildly unpopular for really good reason. it would have driven up costs on everyone. it would have taken coverage away from more than 20 million people. would have done away with essential benefits like maternity care and pediatric care and emergency room care and it would have gutted medicaid. that s why only 17% of the people in this country thought it made sense. that s why the percentages were so low. now he s taken he s coming back and taking the by all accounts, we haven t seen it of course but he appears to be taking the same legislation and flipping it on its head to acknowledge that all of the things that we hated about the that the american people hated about his last effort to overturn the fordable care act, that they are actually positive and that we re going to keep essential health benefits, we re going to keep the pre-existing condition language because people like it until you get to the fine print where he then points
and this by virtual of negotiations that have been going on between these two people, the chairman of the tuesday group, tom mcarthur, republican of new jersey and congressman mark meadows from the house freedom caucus of north carolina. they have agreed in principle on a deal that would provide for these essential health benefits to stay in the american healthcare act. those are provisions that were instituted on obamacare the conservatives hate. they re ty bone to conservatives. states would get unlimited waivers so they could open out of these essential benefits provisions. also something called community rating and guaranteed issues, which guarantees that people don t pay more money than others if they re sicker and make sure that people get coverage for pre-existing conditions. it s a different process this time. it s like something i said last hour. the language that is being worked up in the house in this amendment which we have not seen