macarthur amendment. we will watch closely. thank you. thank you, alisyn. from one wish list to another, the trump administration unveiling what they like to see for tax cuts. will they get support from the other side of the aisle? we have a democratic senator on the finance committee next. your insurance company won t replace the full value of your totaled new car. the guy says you picked the wrong insurance plan. no, i picked the wrong insurance company. with liberty mutual new car replacement™, you won t have to worry about replacing your car because you ll get the full value back
constructive conversations among our members that focused on how we can do more to lower costs for everyone. what this amendment does is it gives states more flexibility and tools to reduce premiums and increase choices, and it does this while maintaining and preserving protections for people with pre-existing conditions. this is the important point. those protections remain in the books, even as we add new ones. the goal here is to give states greater flexibility, if they want it, to lower premiums. we have not yet made any decisions on a vote, but this is more progress, and we will continue our progress as our work to repeal and replace obamacare. now, i am certain some of you have questions. are there any young people who actually have questions? [ laughter ] yeah, manu, you re not cutting no bar. no, sorry! all right, anybody else have any questions?
constructive conversations among our members the focus on how we can do more to lower costs for everyone. what this amendment does is it gives states more flexibility and tools to reduce premiums and increase choices and it does this while maintaining and preserving protections from people with pre-existing conditions. this is the important point. those productions remain in the books, even as we add new ones. the goal here is to give states greater flexibility if they want it lower premiums. we ve not met it made any decisions on a vote, but this is more progress and we will continue our progress and our work to repeal and replace obamacare. i m certain some of you have questions. joining young people have questions? [laughter] all right, all right. anyone else have any questions? reporter: how close are you on obamacare and what are your
mechanics and the science of insurance has come up with a very innovative amendment that we think works really well. it gets to where we all want to go. we want to bring down costs, want to preserve protection for people with pre-existing conditions, they want to respect the fact that states have different issues, different health care marketplaces, and we want to get states greater flexibility so they can get the maximum and policies and premiums so we can get the best possible health care system. what we ve learned as a cookie-cutter one-size-fits-all health care system doesn t work for america. it s a diverse country. different states have different roles in different systems. we need to respect that and that s what this amendment does. he is a leading moderate. he s a lead chair of the tuesday group. sorry, it was a good shot. that was pretty cool. he s a leading member of the tuesday group so this is a coalescing thing.
obamacare. we re hopeful there may be a vote soon. we don t want to put an artificial deadline on this, though. we learned that a few weeks ago. we want to keep getting this thing in a better place. shannon: good morning, doug, what is the latest on the passage of healthcare within days? the latest word from the president himself comes from an interview he did late yesterday afternoon with the washington examiner where he said republicans are very close to getting a healthcare bill done. but concerns about this new bill have shifted. shifted away from the house conservative caucus, the freedom caucus to the more moderate wing of the party after tom macarthur had an amendment. insurers can charge higher rates for people with pre-existing conditions. my concern is that we get the healthcare bill to a place where it gives states some