and particularly at an enormous drop in the percentage of americans who had health insurance with the passage of obamacare. this bill would take it all the way back to where it was before obamacare and then some. it would take it to 19%, which is the highest it has been since the 1970s. we talked to mark halperin about some of my friends going on the air this weekend and saying things that were verifybly not true. i was surprised that paul ryan went on the air and said, this is not going to impact what are we worried about? when you had the cooked political report adjust 21, 22 seats. you ve got 23, 24 seats that hillary clinton won. and anybody that knows anything about politics knows that vote last week is going to make the job of republicans tougher. and they they re admitting it off camera themselves. they are in no-man s land and supporting something politically
when we started the process faster than anyone in the house expected. it is also up to the senate to make the improvements. and i have talked to 6 of the 12 members of the senate committee yesterday. the working group, including leader mcconnell and others, and everyone is excited and ready to go to work and take the time necessary to look at the bill, make improvements where they need to be made, and then the bill will be brought back for conference. the house bill is not going to come before us. the senate is starting from scratch. we re going to draft our own bill. and i m convinced that we re going to take the time to do it right. my goal is to actually expand coverage for those 28 million americans who still lag coverage today despite the aca. all right. the health care overhaul is set
they would do that. the symbolism of cutting for the media and giving huge taxes to wealthy and republicans not telling the truth makes it difficult for democrats to convince them. but by election day they will. they say it is so grotesque. you can talk to republican conservists, the fact that the rich have been getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. and alan greenspan himself says it poses a risk to the continued strength of western capitalism. and here you have a program that cuts $80 billion from the poorest americans and gives it to the richest americans. that s just bad policy. it reinforces your right to
medicaid, rather, more sick people are on it, that their cuts would still leave an increase in medicaid. this is a cut from whab prowhat has been projected to be needed. they are moving subsidies into tax credits and changing them from being more income based to being more age based, giving more subsidies to wealthy people, less to poor people. that will have an affect i ll show you in a second. and all that money is going to, most of the money is going to rich people in the face of $622 billion of tax cuts. define rich. define rich? is it $250,000 and above? $250,000 and above, investment-income people, medical devices, businesses, things like that. so $622 billion in tax cuts. $622 billion in tax cuts for the wealthy americans. okay. okay. what does that mean in terms of what happens to insurance? so listen, go back to the
championed, this is donald trump s health care plan. this is every bit as much of a divide from what he attacked barack obama for saying, if you want your health insurance policy, keep it. if you want your doctor, keep it, et cetera, et cetera. i mean, that is a problem. and the biggest problem for republicans is, this debate is not about the cost curve, it s about whether government pays for health care that spends too much money per person is inefficient, or whether insurance companies pay. instead of saying, how do we put more forces in the system to drive down overall costs, save medicare, save medicaid, save middle-class americans from the runaway bills. mark said earlier that republicans like the bill, but several members who voted for it are praying the senate changes it. so they don t necessarily like it. that s what they are all saying. they are basically saying, don t look at this bill, the senate is going to save us. so they don t like it.