i talked to rand paul on friday. for him and other like minded conservatives this is nothing more than entire entitlement program. it doesn t accomplish why they wanted to get rid of obamacare in the first place. that was the cost. you heard the acknowledgment they don t have any kind of estimate from the congressional budget office. when mick mull vinny went out for the white house today to talk about it he acknowledged they didn t know what the cost is. and on the senate side you also have four members of the senate who sent a her letter because they are concerned about medicaid expansion in their states. they are worried about people losing coverage. so even though you have this situation where the president it sunds like is completely all in. as sean spicer put it there is going to be a very aggressive laser like focus on this it has involved tweeting, heating with health care people,nd it looks like he will be in charge with
when i spoke to him a couple minutes ago. hi mr. vice president. is this plan conservative? i m sorry? this health care plan is it conservative? this is the right plan for america. it is a framework we believe will repeal obamacare which has been a disaster. heritage says it doesn t do that, heritage action. and we ll replace this with a plan that will handwritings the power of the free market, will give states resources and flexibility to reporm medicaid, will help americans be able to purchase health insurance but the cost of health insurance will go down. we are looking forward as i told leaders in the senate today 50i78 going to be meeting with members of congress this afternoon, we really do believe this is a historic opportunity the repeal the failed policies of obamacare and replace it with the kind of reforms that will lower the cost of health insurance en while we insure that the most vulnerable have
complicate gop plans to repeal obamacare. i want to run through your article. you said older americans because they could be charged more than younger people. you said conservative lawmakers, because it doesn t go far enough in getting rid of medication expansion for some of them. you said governors, you say you think some governors think it s stingy on medicaid. another group you are looking at is people getting affordable care act coverage particularly those with low incomes because they might not get as much help as they did. voters, democrats who don t want to see changes to the law because they like obamacare as it is. and people who support abortion rights or planned parenthood because federal plans are cut off to planned parenthood for a year through medicaid. which is the biggest challenge? we are talking about a process in congress. the biggest problem i would say is that moderates in the senate thinking it s too conservative,
controversy. in his first address to his new department, housing and urban development, carson referred to slaves as immigrants. a lot of blowback over his comments. we have a lot to get through. our team is in place. chris jansing, kasie hunt, perry bacon, nice to see him again. let s start off with a hard look at what is in this obamacare replacement plan. before we get started here i want to run through the basics of the new bill. no more individual mandate. coverage for individuals with preexisting conditions is still in. young people can remain on their parents coverage until age 26. the expansion of medicaid that happened under obama, that gets frozen in 2020. and people who let their coverage lapse could see their premiums go up by 30%. finally there is still a system of tax credits to help pay for health care on the individual market but those credits are now based on age.
having our deputy whip team to the white house. and thank you for your commitment on following through on what to most americans is probably one of the most important promises that were made not only by you, but by all of us in getting this majority vote in the house and senate and the white house. and that is rescuing the american people from the failures of obamacare. we ve heard the message for years. we ve seen the dramatically skyrocketing costs. double digit increases every year in most parts of the country in health premiums for families. many families are seeing deductibles that rise above the $10,000 range. which means people don t have acce to hlth care. people don t have the ability to choose their own doctor. you talked about this the other night, and just one of the best speeches i ve heard from a president standing out that well in the house chamber when you addressed the joint session and gave an inspirational speech to the country laying out the things that need to happ