that if president trump refuses to make these payments he will be responsible for american families paying more for less care. he is the president and the ball is in his court. american families await his action. aren t the premiums going up anyway? yes, absolutely. they were going up under the last administration because you had fewer healthy young people buying in to the individual exchange and now they are continuing to go up because of the uncertainty. what s going to happen if he stops paying for these cost sharing reductions or stops subsidizing the insurance companies, the individual tax credits are going to go up as well. we are still going to be paying tax dollars towards insurance. you will be seeing premium hikes but that s going to be offset by the tax increase. this is really a temporary fix. this isn t a fix to be honest. this is a stop gap on a system failure. todd: when you go through the language of the cbo, it does mention that you see a lot of references to non-gro
program helping him out. he went to go get the treatment he deserves and they told him you don t qualify for this private care because the va is within 20 miles. the va doesn t have the specialized care that he needs. the one that does is 50 miles a day. i don t get a choice i get to die. to me, that s not a choice. how terrible is this? this isn t a fix. that s a very sad story. i will tell you the va is implementing the program as congress passed it. there was specific reasons for that, as i understand it. the cbo scoring for the program, if it would have been open to all veterans it would have been $50 billion. the way they set up the criteria 40 miles and 30 day wait time it was only $10 billion. it was a monetary consideration by congress. what sort of legislation would you support here moving forward? what would you want in there? there is a hearing coming up next week where they are going
is there the feeling they make it more palletable and more a permant part of the landscape? you may see that. but i think they will push back saying this isn t a fix, it is a change. because we allow more people to stay on private plans and some people could argue it hurts the affordable care act because you may have less people going into the exchanges and they need more and more in the exchanges if it will succeed. isn t a big part of the problem is that there are members of the house caucus that don t embrace speaker boehner and his management of their caucus? this thing was sneaked in there on a voice vote. a lot of these republican members of the house didn t know this particular language was in there. so by doing it on a voice vote,
do you think the president said it can go another year so the state insurance companies can snap their fingers and go back? he didn t say through 2014. he said into 2014. all he s doing is kicking the can down the road until he breaks his promise. why? this is why people despise washington. he s doing it for the 2014 mid-terms, not because he believes it that s the truth. can i tell you the fix? keep your word. the requirement to increase the coverage levels causes people to lose their policies. the idea was excellent to have coverage for pre-existing coverage and other essential requirements. what we didn t take into account and we made mistakes that have to be corrected is we impose requirements and we have to
the fix isn t a fix. it need as legislative enactment. this is a help get democrats elected. and they are rebelled saying we won t do this. i have to cut you off. thank you for being with us. up next tonight on hannity on health care, how about you go after the republicans who have 40 million people they want to commit to the emergency room. mr. obamagasm himself can t help himself. later we reveal your choice for the video of the day. the video of the day. i m vacillating between