mainly because he has said very specifically he will seek to destroy a woman s right to health care. he s against the affordable care act, in favor of repealing it without effectively replacing it. he s in favor of block granting medicaid. all of these kinds of stands and others lead me to vote against his nomination. he is, in effect, against many essential programs and policies that he s been nominated to carry out. and i think that is a disservice to those programs and the people they serve and to the nation. senator, i assume you acknowledge that the republicans, they have the majority in the senate. they have 52 republicans, 48 democrats. unless some republicans bolt, all of these individuals who you oppose, they will be sworn in. you appreciate that? i not only understand and appreciate it, but i have to
what we have after the repeal is trump care. price often deflecting questions, including whether he supports turning medicaid from a guarantee into a grant program. i don t know why you won t be willing to answer whether or not you are in favor of block granting medicaid. that s not complicated. i m in favor of making certain that medicaid is a system that responds to patients, not the government in another exchange, price dodged a question about whether he was working directly with trump on a plan to replace obamacare. president trump said he s working with you on a replacement plan for the aca, which is nearly finished and will be revealed after your confirmation. is that true? it s true that he said that, yes. [ laughter ] and refused to say how he would implement a trump executive order, giving the hhs secretary the power to weaken obamacare. yes or no, under the executive order, will you commit
system that is now not responding necessarily to the needs of the recipients. consequently, it s incumbent upon all of us as policymakers to look for a better way to solve that challenge. are you in favor of block granting medicaid? i m in favor of a system more responsive. are you in favor of block granting medicaid? it s a simple question, congressman. for the most powerful job in health care in the country. i don t know why you re unwilling to answer block granting medicaid. it s not that complicated. i m in favor of making certain medicaid is a system that responds to patients, not the government. i don t understand why you won t answer that. and i don t have time. i know i m over. i will probably i don t know if we re going to get another round, mr. chairman. should i ask my last question or are we going to get another chance? i m going to allow additional questions. i hope that not everybody will take the opportunity. i will digssappoint you, i m
else. if you take all the sick people and put them in to one pool and the healthy people in another pool, the healthy people get lower premiums because they are in a pool with just healthy people but the sick people suffer and that s the opposite purpose of insurance which is to spread the risk. that s the scam of high-risk pools. it never worked. dr. dean, i m going to ask you a governor s question now. kellyanne conway mentioned block granting medicaid to the states. what s your reaction to that? it depends how it s done. the trouble is when republicans talk about doing it, they are usually talking about eliminating care for poor people. when democrats talk about this, they are doing it as a budgetary model. it s not a crazy idea but it can be a crazy idea and it was a crazy idea when reagan tried to do it. i d say it is a mixed bag.
150, 200% more than everybody else. if you take all the sick people and put them in to one pool and the healthy people in another pool, the healthy people get lower premiums because they are in a pool with just healthy people but the sick people suffer and that s the opposite purpose of insurance which is to spread the risk. that s the scam of high-risk pools. it never worked. dr. dean, i m going to ask you a governor s question now. kellyanne conway mentioned block granting medicaid to the states. what s your reaction to that? it depends how it s done. the trouble is when republicans talk about doing it, they are usually talking about eliminating care for poor people. when democrats talk about this, they are doing it as a budgetary model. it s not a crazy idea but it can be a crazy idea and it was a crazy idea when reagan tried to do it. i d say it is a mixed bag.