schumer s doing it is he wants to save the obamacare subsidies and the president wants a deal on health care in some fashion. it s going to take a long slog to get this lamar alexander and patty murray fix through congress. and when you look at the calculus that would have to be made equal, this president continually undercut his leadership has has been said and reported, and if he wants to bring along democrats, fine but the criticism is you also have to bring along key leadership on the republican side to get to that number 60. exactly. and frankly, he would have problems reaching either of those goals. looking at this from, say, the perspective of the democrats, and peter touched on this in his report, the trump administration has cut by 90% the budget for doing ads for health care.gov,
jet setter on the taxpayer dime. that seems pretty wasteful right there, especially since his resignation was accepted. but when we think about the check, $51,000 written to pay everybody back, in comparison to what was spent, wouldn t have price have known better as a career politician? someone who raled against, you know, the type of overspending that we witnessed in d.c. for decades? yes, he definitely should have known better. but i do want to emphasize as embarrassing and wrong and wasteful as all of this travel was, it is far from, in my view, the worst things that price has been up to. by which i mean deliberately and methodically undermining what is the law of the land, the affordable care act. and we re not even talking about any of the things that he s done there by which i refer to cutting outreach spending, making sure that health care.gov is taken offline for 12 hours a day every sunday during open-enrollment period, using money that s been earmarked for
republicans have concentrated on is the actual are premium. that s the number most health care consumers are aware of, how much they write in that check every month to pay for their insurance policy. and what s less visible are the deductables and the other aspects the noncovered care for which deductionables and preemious don t matter, out of pocket. all of that. when you look at the overall cost of what would be left of health care policies under this new system, that has gone up enormously even in the cases where some of the premiums have gone down. yeah, the crucial thing to understand is that when the premiums go down it s only because there is poorer coverage. so if you had a silver plan under obamacare in picking up from health care.gov that 70% of the costs. the proposal would make it so
yeah, the crucial thing to understand is that when the premiums go down it s only because there is poorer coverage. so if you had a silver plan under obamacare in picking up from health care.gov that 70% of the costs. the proposal would make it so the standard plan available with coverage would be just over half of your cost coverage. that s a big amount that s really left for you to have to deal with. and that s what hurts people s health. and i think this is what mitch mcconnell knew was going to come out in any debate this week. and if the bill comes back to life we ll be hearing a lot more about all the other numbers beyond just the premiums. doctor, thank you for joining us tonight. i really appreciate it. thank you. the 11th hour with brian williams starts now.
focus on the patient, not on above the but on the patie. i want to bring in shari isley who voted for president trump in large part because of his promise to repeal obamacare. you have a question, shari? yes, and the reason for that is i now don t have health insurance anymore because it went from $1081 last year to $2,132 a month for a family of three. because as you get older it is more expensive in pennsylvania already under obamacare. in 2017, not one plan in pennsylvania offered on the health care.gov website qualified to open a health care savings account, under the new plan, what will the parameters be to be able to save money tax free to help with medical expenses. i m sorry that you ve had that challenge, but it s one that we predicted when the law was passed, and you probably