jason bailey who is the ceo of this health care system. oxner is implementing a new spousal covid vaccine as part of the 2022 medical plan premium f a spouse is covered by one of our medical plans in 2022, unvaccinated against covid-19, a 100-dollar per paid period fee will apply. $200 a month to keep your spouse on the health care rolls. rachel: quite unbelievable. warner thomas is the ceo. pete: i believe it is ochsner. my wife is from louisiana. rachel: it is the system. this is what he has to say. this is not a mandate as non-employee spouses and domestic partners can choose to select a health plan outside of oschner health plan. that is disingenuous. pete: it is. rachel: your spouse is part of the plan, you don t have to be
didn t happen then. i ll wrap up for you, christi, the fact is, every reputable source, the cbo, others have said it would throw millions off health care rolls and we know that will cause death and illness across the country. the republican party doesn t care about that, i understand that, and democrats have held solidly, not a single democrat will vote for this, and quickly on the 90s, part of what happened is there was no safety net, which would happen here, there was no safety net. when there was a recession, in fact, many people fell out of work and there was nothing to support them. so the republican strategy of the 1990s to disenfranchise and impoverish people is now exactly the model they want to use here, and i urge senator collins and senator murkowski, vote no next week. they are as far as we know so far. jonathan, stephen, sorry, we ve run out of time. i know we could talk about this for an awful long time, but thank you so much for being here. we ll be right back. get
also because they are the once on the ground having to implement these laws, and the reason and back to again what he said the reason why there isn t unity here and why, you know, even after years of promising of years of repealing and replaceing is there is still a bad bill. it would take millions of the health care roles, it would have drastic cuts to medicaid funding and big drug companies and big insurance companies, no one wants that. the american people still support obamacare. they want to see fixes to it. they do not want to see millions of people kicked off the health care rolls. i know you spent a lot ton of time, this is enormously complicated to the point of being maddening. i want to turn to what we mentioned in the intro. that is this cruz amendment. so now have you the cruz amendment which got him on board, now you bought the the insurance companies saying we can t work with that. can you simply describe what that is and what it would do and
apparent and page points the fickif i can finger of blame towards president trump. it s whole array of emotions but confusion on why he s doing this to the people who really need it and then anger of why he s doing it. reporter: medicaid expansion added 700,000 ohioans to the health care rolls with intended benefits, percentage of people with high blood pressure and obesity and elevated cholesterol dropped. in ohio where opioid addiction have reached alarming levels, significant decreases in medicaid funding or likely to have widespread impact. we ll make sure we still give the care to the patients but it s going to be huge financial burden. spending cuts will affect oep yad treatment nationwide especially in ohio where the rate of fastal overdose was twice the average in 2015. for courtney taylor, much simpler, dire needs, only filed
america and also 27 million adults adults, 11 million part of the medicaid expansion program. and there are nearly 19 million disabled or elderly. moment of the money is spent on the disabled or elderly. more than 60% of all medicaid dlarps go to care for these two groups. checking the numbers and running the facts. context, that s critical as we know for a number of republican senators especially from states that didn t used medicaid expansion to add people to health care rolls. look at the numbers. is inevitable. have a philosophical argument and part of it is about the role of government in health care but inevitable if you scale that back that the numbers, the access to health care goes down. i would add one more number to your list here. that is, that two out of three residents of nursing homes are medicaid beneficiaries and we have a population that is aging as baby boomers get older. this goes to the point that refuting kellyanne conway what