non-able-bodied. what about his promise, where he promised no money would come out of it? remember, you re calling a cut something that is being reorganized over time in a way that allows states more flexibility and still guarantees people the coverage that they are accustomed to. not really, kellyanne. if you cut $800 bill out of it it doesn t mean the same coverage? we re effecting why we re doing this in the first place. what about the 20 million americans last year who opted out of this wonderful thing calmed obamacare? 600 million offered to pay the tax and penalty rather than get obamacare. everyone knows it s not perfect. true. i won t fight you on that point, but about that not affordable, not sustainable and you have insurance companies even this week pulling out of wisconsin and indiana in most of the markets there. i hear you. it s not perfect and lots of democrats say we should work on fixing. it s not working. fixing obamacare.
bring up. let me get evan to weigh in on some of this. talk about the fact that a lot of this is being done behind closed doors. what do you make of that apro p approa approach? is it effective? i make two things of it. first, i think doing it behind closed doors is because the republicans fear the pr fallout. this is a toxic bill and nobody likes to see the sausage made and that sausage is really bad on top of that. and doing it behind closed doors is not helpful to the overall goal of fixing obamacare. in you look at it in 2017 one-third of all counties in the united states have only one insurer or even no insurers. and in 2016 that number was 7%. so obamacare is clearly broken. when you do it behind closed doors it doesn t allow input from people who have good ideas. this should be written by the committees that deal with it. the health committee would be a great place to do it and we could get ideas from republicans
replace obamacare by ourselves, go to the democrats and say thi this. 10% of the sick people in this country drive 90% of the costs. let s take those 10% and put them in a federal system. if we can t do this ourselves. that s a good place to start. as for senate democrats, they talked about fixing obamacare but they don t sound willing to work with republicans. the focus is on scrapping the health care law. he senate democrats ripped republicans for the lack of open hearings and for the lack of transparency. we may be days or even weeks away from the republicans moving directly to the floor. a significant bill that would affect tens of millions, even hundreds of millions of americans. big tax cuts, cut back on health care, defund planned parenthood without a single public hearing. that s also wrong. many republicans i have
there a long time. so bottom line, the reason they re talking about not wanting to change the rules is republicans remember what it s like when they were the minority party and harry reid was the majority leader and they wouldn t want the democrats passing everything with 51 votes. shepard: for now, they don t have the votes. what are we hearing from democrats? democrats feel like they have leverage here since there s a range of ideas among what is next on healthcare. they re trying to get the gop focused on fixing obamacare. so what you re hearing from democrats is repair, not repeal or replace. shep? shepard: mike emanuel on capitol hill. thank you. the pop star ariana grande promised another concert after last week s deadly terror attack. what she didn t say is that she will be bringing a lot of her friends together. today her team revealing an all-star line-up that s coming up nor a very good cause in manchester. stay with us.
health which is they said 23 million fewer people are going to have health care. what are you joking? you know thing that matters to people? tucker: i think it does matter. 850% increase. tucker: you re kind of missing the point, democrats just lost last election on obamacare. obamacare was in place, the same program all of us live under right now was in place on election day and it failed the middle class. that s why michigan and a bunch of other unexpected states went for trump rather than hilary. my only point is where is the reflection here? wears a concern about actual issues, the unemployment number numbers? carter pages russia ties bring a single job to a single american? what is he campaigning on right now? is he campaigning on russia? what he s talking about is health care. he s talking about fixing