the idea is that they would let people who are younger, healthier, who maybe don t want to spend as much money on the plan buy into the system at a lower level. so you d still get more people getting insured but getting much less for their coverage. so this is one of the two options that the cbo is looking at now. a plan that includes that amendment and a plan that doesn t. when i spoke to someone in senator mcconnell s office earlier today they re going back and forth about different options here as they try to make this math work. that s sort of lining up with what we re hearing from the white house here. over the weekend, the legislative affairs director mark short was out on the tv shows. he said look, the white house is open to working with mcconnell. they like the cruz amendment. but they re not going to rule out sum porting supporting this entire effort up and having repeal done first as ben sasse has suggested with a long runway until it goes into effect and then a replacemen
by the president, more face-to-face interaction with the senators, some more working the phones. we ve been told he s been working the phones. reporter: he has been working the phones and will continue to work the phones. the question is whether or not he can make the math work and part of the issue is, anderson, and you know we ve been talking about this debate for several days, can he make adjustments to the bill that satisfy moderates when it comes to medicaid funding while at the same time appeasing conservatives who really want to repeal and replace obamacare just begs the question how many times can they rinse and repeat on repeal and replace. jim acosta, thank you for the update. on that new polling, the most recent is from fox news, showing just 27% support, 18% say they are ensure.
said it s suspected this might be another case of empty rhetoric. keep in mind, this is a health care bill. we had a number of polls come out today, all of them, if you average them together, show that this has about 20 to 25% approval among the american people. those are legislative dog food numbers. to think that you re going to have 50 republican senators, some of them up for re-election, that will sign on to this, he might be in for a big surprise of his own, anderson. should we expect more effort by the president, more face-to-face interaction with the senators, some more working the phones. we ve been told he s been working the phones. he has been working the phones and will continue to work the phones. the question is whether or not he can make the math work and part of the issue is, anderson, and you know we ve been talking about this debate for several days, can he make adjustments to the bill that satisfy moderates when it comes to medicaid funding while at the same time ap
degree or a lot of a degree to the idea of these tax cuts. having said that and i like to be dispassionate and do some of the math. this plan today, this is not a plan. we re 100 days in. this is a piece of paper, which i m surprised it didn t come on a napkin at this point. i mean this is not the math here andrew s right. this should offend anybody s sense who s ever been to a math class. you d have to hire david copperfield to make this work out. okay. let s go to a couple things. there s no way to make the math work. i m going right into your heart on this because i know where you re going, i think. what good does it do the economy to get rid of the estate tax? any good? it doesn t do something good for the economy, just like reducing the number of brackets doesn t. when you look at this thing, it looks like it s written like a book report, tick, tick, tick. but how do the numbers actually add up? andrew hit the perfect point as far as regulation. one thing that co
make money on this, too many people are old and sick, we re tulg. in that sense time isn t really on the side of obamacare. yes, on the one hand you get people used to it. listen, i don t like this, my premiums are too high, my copays are too high. that gives you pressure. the question of this whole required benefits of health care, republicans need to level with people. these are part of what s making things expensive. this is part of what s making premiums up. i you say to insurance companies you have to cover all this, you decide it s important. we can take it way, premiums will go down. flip side is they like this stuff, maternity care, pediatric care, that kind of stuff. this is the choice before consumers. the problem of health care politics is there is always somebody who is going to come along and promise a better deem. they don t give specifics, details down the road. that s what trump did. what democrats did with obamacare. i will give you the best possible deal, you ll love