visits of members up to the white house, meeting with president trump in the west wing. they are desperately in need and desire this victory. this legislative victory. it can demonstrate to their constituents when they go home after today for another week-long recess. we re into procedural votes here in the house floor. there are three measures they ll be coat voeting on today. first o all, fred upton, the member from michigan who got the $8 billion t help pay for those with pre-existing conditions, helped them out with their premiums, which are expected to skyrocket under this legislation. the mcarthur amendment will allow the states to waive essential health benefits if they can explain how the waiver can reduce premiums. that, a very contentious provision. here s an interesting one. representative mcsally has an amendment that would correct an oversight they didn t knnotice until the last member. it would have allowed congress to be exempt from the american
i mean, look, the affordable care act is like any large piece of legislation. it s had really big successes. the lowest number of uninsured americans ever recorded. at the same time, a lot of people are paying more for their premiums. in many states, iowa is one of them, tennessee, they are running into real problems with losing competition. so one approach would be to say, all right, it is working in a lot of parts of the country. works real well in california, michigan. iowa has a big problem. what can we do in those states? what can we do for those people who were not helped by the affordable care act? in a normal political time, this would not be hard to fix. it is so easy to imagine democrats and republicans coming together and saying, look, democrats want a little bit of this, republicans want a little bit of that. to do that, you have to keep the law in place. republicans won t talk about that. jonathan, thank you so much. i appreciate that. jonathan cohen, who has written e