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mccain about his decision to oppose the skinny repeal. did you have any answers? of course. always have concerns about an important vote like that. fox has confirmed president trump met with south carolina senator lindsey graham this morning at 10:00 a.m. to discuss health care. they talked about how best to use healthcare dollars. for house republicans who passed a healthcare reform plan, a bitter disappointment and it s led do some second guessing. pretty clear to me that this process was not a good one. one of the issues the president never laid out the core principles and didn t sell them to the american people. some republicans saying they cannot afford to make the same mistakes with tax reform. shep. shepard: much more on healthcare and the road forward. that s next.
federal spending, but there are consequences to that. it certainly means fewer people covered under the program. jon: if the states are getting block grants to cover their own people, doesn t that essentially do the same thing and perhaps, the idea being, it s a more efficient route? the first thing to understand about this per capita allotment system, it is not exactly like a block grant. it was actually first proposed by president bill clinton in 1995 as an alternative to the block grant proposal that newt gingrich put forward in that year. this is an idea that actually comes from centrist democrats, not from the radical right wing. the idea here is that that per capita allotment can follow the patient. a big element of free-market thinking on healthcare is put patients more in charge of the healthcare dollars that we spent on their behalf. if we do that, you ll have much more innovation, better quality, lower cost, and that is what republicans are trying to do. this medicaid ref
support it why haven t we seen that before. we haven t had a market in healthcare for decades. by whom. by the democratic party. respectfully, bill, if the people really wanted a different kind of plan other than say they do now. they do now. looks like just getting to see. healthcare dollars. they are just getting to see the tip of this disaster when the doctors start walking out, and not taking it, then j can t go back to the status quo, bill, that s the plan. explain to the american people. i predict this will be repealed. last word, sabryna,. explain to the american people what a system would look like where your healthcare dollars are not tied to your place of employment where you own and control those healthcare dollars where you can compete to buy in an individual marketplace the way that businesses can to get the same incentives. can t cherry pick the healthiest people. what about the poorest of the poor and sickest of the sick. you don t make a lo
seen that before. we haven t had a market in healthcare for decades. by whom. by the democratic party. respectfully, bill, if the people really wanted a different kind of plan other than say they do now. they do now. looks like just getting to see. healthcare dollars. they are just getting to see the tip of this disaster when the doctors start walking out, and not taking it, then j can t go back to the status quo, bill, that s the plan. explain to the american people. i predict this will be repealed. last word, sabryna,. explain to the american people what a system would look like where your healthcare dollars are not tied to your place of employment where you own and control those healthcare dollars where you can compete to buy in an individual marketplace the way that businesses can to get the same incentives. can t cherry pick the healthiest people. what about the poorest of the poor and sickest of the sick. you don t make a lot of money off those folks