here s the problem. some people on the left are going to say anything about the republicans propose is mean-spirited and blah, blah, blah, when in fact, one of the key architects of obamacare, he was on another network this morning and said actually, this is no longer an obamacare repeal bill, because it keeps so much of it in place and just sort of waters down. so i think my objections to the republican bill, a big one being how do you fix the risk pools and the adverse selection problems? the other one being i don t really believe that it is that different than obamacare, as it currently stands, but is a very different things and saying oh, my gosh, it is uprooting everything and hurting all these people. melissa: we are not going to solve this. can i ask you about one of the other big topics of the day? let me ask you about the pushback against nancy pelosi after the upset that we have seen. there are people saying that her time has gone by, that you would have to be insane to t
build of the senate has put forward so far, there is a big contradiction here in my mind, and this is what it is, it says that under the current bill, just like obamacare, insurers have to sell everyone, including with pre-existing conditions for the same rights as everyone else, while also repealing obamacare is individual mandate tax, there is no enforcing mechanism anywhere there. so i just don t understand how it is currently constituted the republican plan would reverse the fundamental flaw of obamacare, which is risk pools that are unsustainable. that to me is ultimately, should be important. melissa: looking third, this risk pool, they talk about the size and can they possibly it looks like the only way to do that is if they reinsure those risk pools. that is the map that gets you there, is that going to be too mathematical and too much alike i don t know it s
that is calculus we just got into there. the math is a little scary. i don t know that i want to get into calculus, but you know, you point out, when you put the burden back on states, they are going to start talking. they will say we don t have the money to cover this, we have to go to the federal government. and you have to find out who is going to cover it, especially when you are wanting to cut all of these obamacare taxes. the democrats on the liberal side of the fence, they are going to say this is just to get rid of things like the investment cap, which will help the rich, the republican arguments is that it will help to fuel business, and small businesses have been burned by obamacare, so they want this monkey off of their back to. it is pretty tricky business. melissa: that is true. let me ask you about this press conference earlier. i will let you listen to a little bit of it. again, he answered the question, he gave a timeline and
more he loves to tweets, i don t think that is ever going to stop. he wants to be able to jump over the who and get his message out there anyway he can. they re going to have to come to some sort of terms about how they do this, but you cannot by public pressure start cutting off that which allows people to ask questions of the president to end his communication team. see you and yeah, martha maccallum, thank you so much. we appreciate it, thank you. a fox news alert, senate republicans are unveiling of the flame to repeal and replace obamacare, g.o.p. lawmakers making the case for their bill. to begin with, the discussion draft of the senate health care bill makes no change in the law, protecting the pre-existing conditions, no change in medicare benefits, and it increases medicaid. at the rate of inflation.
have to get consent from both sides, so six committees were canceled today because of this obstruction by the democrats, so it is not just health care, it is everything that we are trying to accomplish in terms of jobs, the economy, national security, getting the country moving, head, the democrats are trying to solve all. melissa: before i let you go, you are there, you have a bird s-eye view, where does this health care bill stand? how much change do you think there needs to be? you think it passes? what is your bet? well, i am working to that end, i think it does, we had an hour and a half discussion earlier today and then just another hour today that so many of the members talking about ways to improve it, scraping it, deal with the fact that obamacare has undermined the health insurance in this country to the point that so many people have no choices, it has become a monopoly, the cost of skyrocketed, and what we know is happening are the rates that we are here and for what in