so these deficits that you saw from mulvaney s budget those are stubborn structural deficits we saw before this discretionary agreement and baby boomers are retiring and we re not ready for them. we have a structural deficit increase because of our entitle ment spending and the biggest driver is healthcare. this is why one of the biggest casualties of a narrow senate of that bill not passing was not getting healthcare entitlement reform. we ve got to reform our healthcare entitlement so that s why we never give up on reforming healthcare because if you reform healthcare you take care of the structural drivers of our debt. maria: and then the graham cassidy obamacare repeal bill almost passed the senate last year this is one area where the president said this maybe should be the focus are we going to try this again this year? i think there are a lot of things we can do incrementally. we got rid of obamacare/funds so we repealed the original mandate in the tax bill and doing
the next few years. that would be dynamic scoring of how much house you can afford. that s what we re doing here. we ll stale on top of this. when more details come out about it. we ll get on top of it and bring it to you. this week also marked the defeat of grm cassidy. so while obamacare remains the law of the land, the trump administration continues to stab toj it. the department of health and human services has held up these cost sharing payments to insurer that go to subsidize wednesday was the deadline for insurance companies to notify the states of the premiums that they re going to charge in 2018 and since they don t know that the government is going to continue these cost sharing reductions, they are posting significant increases in the individual market. more than 40% in some states including florida, virginia, tennessee. so this concept about obamacare imploding being proved by premiums going up, it s not
american. meanwhile senate republicans are getting ready to repeal a, quote, forced arbitration rule initiated by the consumer financial protection bureau. i know you don t know what this means. i m going to tell you. this rule that they re going to repeal makes it easier for consumers to join together and fight financial firms in class action lawsuits but somehow republicans senators want to repeal that. while shaming republicans are even considering this reversal, senate democratic leader chuck schumer called the effort a quote, get out of jail free card for equifax and another company that is no stranger to controversy, wells fargo. this stuff makes my hair catch on fire. i m going to leave that there. i got to share this one last thing. this is like a what? you re probably tired of hearing about the graham cassidy obamacare repeal bill, guess who is not? president trump. he doesn t think it s dead. we have the votes for health care. we have one senator that s in the hospital, h
parlor in d.c. that doesn t count as election spending. no it counts as also. mark warner has his eye on twitter. after they came to washington this week he wasn t happy with what he learned so the story is the story s not going away. coming up, the president has the votes for an obamacare repeal, at least he says he does but he might be confused about. this we ll talk about it when we come back. are lawmakers trying to protect equifax from the very people it harmed. the senate is close to passing a bill that would do exactly that.
obamacare. it s the trump administration not committing to these subsidies. and this is so upsetting. this truly is life and death and it s health care and the idea that the administration could sabotage things to hurt obamacare which we agree is a flawed system that needs help, for example, we are going to see the website, the affordable care act website is going to be down for maintenance work during the open enrollment period. you ve got all yearlong to do it, yet open enrollment every sunday. it s going to be down. the sunday, sunday morning when you might actually want to deal with your health care because you work all week it s going to be down. 90% of the advertising spent that normally the government spends that s going away. while we appreciate tightening up the game and cleaning things up, 90%. yeah. senator schumer, by the way, says that this effort that was being worked on by republican senator alexander and patty