now i would like to bring in andy slavin, from the centers on medicare and medicaid services. and thank you so much. under president obama. thanks for being here, andy. i want to first off get your reaction to what we have just been discussing. where you think we are in the process. because you saw it with obamacare. yeah, thanks, richard. thanks for having me here. you know, i think the president and the vice president and congressional leadership, you know, they re asking their members to take a very challenging vote. i think the number of the day is we saw that an estimated 55,000 people per district, per congressional district, are going to lose coverage under this new plan. and seniors and a lot of low-income and rural people are going to be squeezed. their pocket books are going to be squeezed pretty significantly. that s a very difficult first domestic vote for the administration to ask their congressional rank and file to take. and i think that s why you re seeing the squea
if that vote is going ahead on thursday. is it too late? no, it s not too late. we have already seen he made a big show of bringing in members of the republican study committee, another group of powerf repubcahouse members, to the whiteou on friday. and he pronounced they werell on board with him now. all of them had had misgivings beforehand and now because of his five minutes of talking to them, he changed all of their minds. we ll see. we ll see if that comes about. i remember that headline. it seems he has that power and if he chooses to press his presidential purgative forward with these republicans and said i need you, it can probably pass. that s what congressman ryan needs right now. he s a wheeler and dealer, certainly. he knows how to make a deal. he can givum some things we don t know he ll give up, at least by our cribbing we re looking at so far. great conversation. thanks so much, beth, evan and kevin. have a fantastic and marianna, as well, on the groun
doctors and the aarp all opposing this bill because it s an upside down bill. it makes so little sense. it doesn t lower cost. it makes it more unsustainable, the medicare trust fund. so it s uniting. it s not liberals versus conservatives on this bill it s the broad spectrum of americans opposing this bill and that s why it doesn t make sense to rush this process through. we took six months in the house to have hearings in the house. this bill is supposed to be introduced and voted on in three and a half weeks. one-sixth of the economy. three and a half weeks. a group backed by house speaker paul ryan, the american action network, is out with television ads pressuring members of the freedom caucus, your group, to vote with president trump on health care, take a listen. repeal and replace obamacare. tell congressman labrador to vote with president trump. do you think those ads will
this bill. you have the doctors and the aarp all opposing this bill because it s an upside-down bill that makes so little sense for people. it doesn t lower costs, it makes it more unsustainable, the medicare trust fund. so it s uniting, it s not liberals versus conservatives on this bill, it s the broad spectrum of americans opposing this bill. and i think that s why it doesn t make any sense to rush this process. we took six months in the house, six months to have hearings in the house. this bill is supposed to be introduced and voted on in three-and-a-half weeks. one-sixth of the economy, three-and-a-half weeks. a group backed by house speaker ryan is out with television ads pressuring members of the freedom caucus, your group, to vote with president trump on health care. take a listen. repeal and replace obamacare. tell congressman labrador to
i want to get your reaction. what did you think? well, i m happy to see it finally,. we passed the same legislation in the house on thursday. senator stabenow and peters have been working to get this done since last january. almost a year. just seemed like there was always a reason to not take care of the people of flint. we broke through that. this is a big step forward. it is not everything we need. but it is a big step forward for the people of flint. so talk about life on a daily basis in flint right now. have there been improvements since we spoke last month about how the residents were drinking, cleaning and bathing in bottled water? it has been slowly improving. people there still use bottled water, there are still warnings to not drink the water if it is not filtered or for somebody who might have a compromised immune stem or a young child to continue to use bottled water