definition of essential health benefits is pretty important. most americans would look at that and say, yeah, people should have insurance for those things. governor, hold on one second because the control room is giving me information. can we go to kelly o donnell yet? not yet. i can report what you just told me? there it is in our panner. president trump telling the washington post the health care bill has been pulled. they will not vote today on this health care legislation. that is big, breaking news. we re working to get kelly o donnell in front of a camera. she s on capitol hill. do we have chris jansing at the white house, guys? goff pawlenty, as we wait for reporters to get in place and come to the cameras, obviously, it s a very changeable situation actually we have kelly o donnell. governor, forgive me for a second. can you tell us what s
essential health benefits mandated by the obamacare. are you comfortable with that? it s not eliminating them but giving the decision to the states. governor and isn t that getting rid of some of them, if you don t have all of thisem? some states may keep them all, add some or reduce them. amendment also puts five more billion dollars into the stability fund to make sure the states have the money to make their own choices. i put up the money on how many approved or disapproved of the bill and this was before it changed. what about the new report that estimates the changes costlier and even fewer people might end up being insured? i think the wall street
bring to the floor tomorrow and the president s team says he supports, no more negotiation, is not substantiative health care reform? i don t think it goes far enough and i m very concerned about the provision that may have been added today regarding essential health benefits. i favor that provision and i think there has been movement in that area that i do not favor. congressman, just so we re clear and this would be the last question, to john s earlier question, in terms of the changes though this will that you have seen, in many cases, to appease some in the freedom caucus, you think it s actually hurt the bill more? it is not my view. i respect the views of my colleagues, including those in the freedom caucus. i m a member of what is known as the tuesday group, and my views are based upon the views of my constituents. congressman lance, i appreciate your time. thank you very much. a lot more to discuss ahead. coming up, what we are learning about the how the white house u
lawmakers are talk about this bill failing by a big margin because at the end of the day it isolated too many members of the republican party. thank you. dr. sanjay gupta joins us now. we are talking about the so-called essential health benefits, one of the parts involves maternity coverage? yeah, you have that whole list of things that mj just laid out the minimal coverage that people get with their health care, you have choices when you buy your health care but no matter what it s worth looking at again, in-hospital procedures, for example wouldn t be covered under some plans that s a big problem obviously for somebody who gets sick or in an accident, but the most controversial is that mens would be having plans that cover maternity an pregnancy coverage
body. congress has as much power as the president does. that s what makes us special. last night i was more pessimistic this morning. i think we re at about a 51-49% chance. i think there s incredible amounts of pressure in the coming hours to turn these people around to make certain this isn t a loss of the first vote. this is the first of multiple votes not only in the house but the united states senate and they have to come back together. you don t want to deal your president a losing hand on the first vote. jackie kucinich, a couple of interesting things that have happened. jeff zeleny reporting he s hearing from republicans, the possibility that the vote may not happen today, pushing it back even further. just now we heard from moderate republican leonard lance from new jersey who is voting no. one of the interesting things is, we pressed him on the idea of essential health benefits,