runs into traffic in southern china. one girl passes over here one car passes over her and then another lying face down in the street. going to be okay, her grandmother picks her up. when you re that small the cars go right over the top of her. shannon: unbelievable. just bruises? that s a miracle. glad there is a happy ending on that one. my goal in offering the amendment was to bridge a divide not in one part of our conference or another part, it was to try to get people that were against the bill before to favor it from wherever they come from and it has had some movement in the conference overall. shannon: co-chair of a group of moderate republicans known as the tuesday group cautiously optimistic on negotiations on healthcare. a new amendment announced yesterday winning the support
held accountable. last month, the house passed the va accountability act to make it easier to bring the kind of study leadership that va medical centers so desperately need. lastly, the president signed legislation to reduce out-of-pocket costs for veterans and promote better access to care. these are all very positive steps to deliver the kind of fundamental reform that is needed at the va. this adds to a z already been an active 100 days. under the president s leadership, we have cut red tape at record levels, cutting red tape saves families dollars, it saves businesses jobs. in fact, we have saved families and businesses more than $67 billion just already. yesterday, the administered and put out its sensible for tax reform. that s the next step for overhauling our tax code and we continued to make real progress in our work to repeal her place obamacare. as you saw, we posted an amendment to the health care act yesterday. this amendment was a result of
bridging down t bringing down the rate is someone everyone wants and it s time to bring down the tax rate. most democrats every democrat we ve had on the show. they agree is just how much and how you will pay for it. before you go, paul ryan said something that struck us at the top of the hour. listen to this on health care. we want to give the states the ability to customize the reforms to maximize the ability to lower premiums and protect people with pre-existing conditions and that is exactly at the heart of what the macarthur amendment does. he s promising that this new deal that s being worked out between the tuesday group and freedom caucus would protect pre-existing conditions, no question. you are one of the architects of obamacare which did that. do you buy that argument because that s not how we read the agreement. this would give states these waivers to get out of that. you re absolutely right. look, let s be clear. people talk about pre-existing
failure of health care? no, no. we ve been this is something we ve been talking to them all along and we had a good meeting yesterday and the house and ways and means in the white house will work regularly to make sure we get together a bill that s unified and we ve been briefed on what they re going to do and it s basically a long and you see this as progress being made showing we re moving and getting on the same page let s do that again. wow! that was very interesting. so no, we see this as a good thing. does macarthur get to 216? so tom macarthur, one of the leaders of the tuesday group also has a lot of experience in insurance, knows insurance marks inside and out and worked in high-risk pool settings. so we think the macarthur amendment is a great way to lower premiums, give states more flexibility while protecting people with pre-exists
make sure it happens. whether it is this friday or next week or the week after that, i can tell you, real reform is coming. it s a matter of days, not months. so, i m very optimistic we ll get it done in the right fashion. martha: what happened last time was that the things that made the moderates happy made you folks unhappy. now that you are happy, are the moderates unhappy again? some of the states will have the ability to charge people with pre-existing conditions for further health care and also to opt out of some of the requirements that were put in place for these plans under obamacare. have you gotten moderates on board? obviously, they are whipping their group. i am responsible for the freedom caucus. i think that is the beauty of the macarthur amendment. but it does, it gives governors, individual states, the rights to do that. you talk about pre-existing conditions, that coupled with high risk pool we are putting in place, actually makes sure those pre-existing condition