the speaker of the house will bring to the floor tomorrow and the president s team said he supports is not substantive health care reform. i don t think it goes far enough and i m concerned about the provision that may have been added regarding essential health benefits. i favor that provision. i think there has been movement in that area that i do not favor. just so we are clear, to the earlier question in terms of the changes to the bill that you have seen and you think it hurt the bill more. it s not my view. my views are based on the views of my constituents. a lot more ahead as we are learning how it came about.
from the white house is telling members to vote their conscious. we re trying to get votes in the no category to yes. once we he do that we can move forward with passing it on the house floor. those concessions announced early this week mainly focused on appealing essential health benefits from obamacare a move that will lower premiums. but congressional budget offices most updated estimates of the gop plan will cut deficit savings in half to $150 billion over ten years and result in 24 million more uninsured americans in 2026. that estimate does not include the most recent changes to the bill. changes that would give more power to states to determine what they consider essential benefits and provide $15 billion to states to use for mental health, substance abuse and infant and maternity care they
and we re talking about some key provisions that have been taken out of this now that really strike at the heart of obamacare, the affordable care act. and that is to require insurers to provide maternity coverage, to provide birth control coverage and mental health coverage. these are these essential health benefits we talked so much about. that s what it means. they basically say the states can decide this. that s why this is so controversial. as we do the politics of this, the substance so important to all of this. but at this hour, the president now starting to change the subject. he ll be talking shortly about the keystone pipeline. he ll be having lunch with the treasury secretary talking about tax reform. guys, all of this is is incumbent, hinges on what happens today here with this health care bill, john and poppy. jeff zeleny at the white house. again, live pictures from the house floor where they re debating the rule for the bill to repeal and replace obamacare.
getting to a yes and feel the elimination of the essential health benefits coming out of the bill it helps with that. and they understand the president would have a certain amount of frustration with individuals and with the conference. he has engaged in this. he has tried to help with negotiating this package and what he would like to see is passage of this move to the senate and see the house begin the process with tax reform, be successful with that and then getting into those other infrastructure items, securing the border. and i ll say this for any constituents rebuilding the u.s. military which is any emphasis they ve come to me with every single week. ed: you won t be surprised nancy pelosi the top democrat in the house disagrees with you. here s what she said about president trump said.
babies, right? because half of them are men, that s how the population of the world breaks down. when 100% of people have prostate cancer coverage, only 50% of them can potentially ever have cancer but as a result the insurance company knows that 50% will never claim for prostate cancer and 50% will never claim for maternity and everybody gets to pay a relatively low rate more to a single-payer system like canada s a rate the size of the shape of my head. zero. the other thing that s the shape of my head is the number of free market health insurance systems there are in the world. it s a fallacy. it simply doesn t work because as wendall can tell you, for-profit insurance companies exist for profit which means they will not willingly insure people who are high risk without some sort of offset. and the offset has to be a big pool or everybody or a bunch of not-sick people. so now when you carve out these essential health benefits, ten of them that you had on the screen there, for most