protection fls this healthcare bill for those in need. the fact is, let s remember why we are doing. this obamacare is unaffordable. unsustainable. 20 million people just last year folks opted out of obamacare. 6.5 million freeferred pay $3 billion in taxes to the irs. you know what they could have done with that money? bought healthcare through the market. we have 83 insurers have left the exchanges just last year with two dozen more promising to do so in 2018. it s collapsing. it has benefited some americans. millions of others who were left out of the process. brian: i want to you to hear senator durbin who he blames for insurers dropping out. listen. when you go to the insurance company executives and say why are you pulling out of markets? why are you raising premiums? they say out uncertainty in washington since the arrival of president trump who from his first executive order has been undermining health insurance and the affordable care act. brian: so have you a response? ye
if this does pass the house. who gets the w? who gets the l? look, i think i want president trump to get all of the credit and by credit i mean blame. i mean, look right now president trump is at 37% approval. the lowest approval of any president this early in his presidency. and obamacare is in its highest approval ever. what he is going to get, brian, is blame for transferring a trillion dollars from people who are getting healthcare now to insurance company executives and to the wealthy. and for taking away healthcare from 24 million people. brian, donald trump promised that one would lose coverage, no one in his replacement. 24 million people are going to lose coverage. so i hope he gets all the credit in the world for that. brian: very interesting. because is he getting things in for conservatives that they wanted. we saw some of that already with the making people on medicaid who are single work. the same way they did in
care, the president met with the nation s top insurance company executives at the white house. but insurance companies didn t just get attention from the president today. they also got a nod from the house. in the form of a bill called the keep your health plan act. the bill is passed. today, house republicans and a few dozen democrats passed the keep your health plan act. a bill that doesn t guarantee you can keep your plan, but does allow insurers to keep offering plans that aren t up to aca standards. and even offer new ones. the debate today on whether to support the bill comes down to a very simple question. why not? it s an embrace of the status quo that has allowed insurance companies to sell junk insurance for years. bankrupting millions of americans. and right now, those companies are celebrating. talking points memrow writes, the affordable care act was designed to make sure all americans had a certain level of
power does the federal what can he do if he decides me or my firm crossed the line in opposing him on the financial regulation bill? no one in washington should be talking about lobbyists, everyone is up to their eyeballs on both sides. the second, are you saying that it is unseamly for him to do it? are you saying it is wrong and has a real impact? i think it is wrong. this with the insurance company executives. questioning their motives in opposing his bill. at the same time content to receive tens of millions from insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies to pay for ads in support of health care. i think there ought to be some restraint. the president ought to people can disagree him and still have good motives. he ought to recognize it is good to have a vigorous debate. just because the president lays something out doesn t