battle the opioid epidemic, and the ability to buy cheaper plans with less coverage for those who want it, while conservatives hope will bring down premium costs. maine senator susan collins doesn t want to allow mitch mcconnell to even bring the bill to the floor, tweeting a short time ago, quote, still deep cuts to medicade in senate bill. will vote no on mtp, the motion to proceed. ready to work with gop and dem colleagues to fix flaws in the affordable care act. that makes it impossible to update, improve, revise the bill, if you don t even allow the majority leader to bring it to the floor. after having some healthcare struggles of his own, house speaker paul ryan said he s staying out of it. as tempting as it is to comment on a sense deliberations are in process, i want to give them the space to get their job done. we have a promise to keep. we kept that promise in the house. reporter: ryan s counter part took this swipe at the updated
bill. this senate bill now that is circulating does even deeper damage to americans with medicade. president has called the house bill mean. this is even meaner. republicans will do all of this to damage seniors, children and working families just to hand tax breaks to the richest. reporter: one to watch, ohio senator rob portman who said he is undecided on the motion to proceed. if portman decides he s a no on that procedural vote, then the senate is stuck again. harris? harris: wow. i mean, you ve heard it a couple days in a row. we ve had lawmakers saying, nope, they re going to get beyond this point. we ll watch it as it happens. one of the four missing men now confirmed dead. he was 19 years old. his remains were identified after they were found in a mass grave. investigators say they re working to identify other remains discovered on this pennsylvania farm. a person of interest is now in custody and could face serious
consciences. what did you promise the american people? what did you promise people who supported you? reporter: he did not want to be rushed into voting but now it sounds like he s getting on board, getting ready for the possibility of a vote next week. harris? harris: so the obstruction charge and healthcare, what are democrats saying in response to it? reporter: welsh democrats are firing back. they say republicans have been working on healthcare reform since january, have not been able to get it done. they say it s not democrats getting in the way. they say it s the substance of the republican healthcare plan. two weeks isn t gonna solve their problems. the way they can solve their problem is very simple. get rid of all the tax cuts to the rich. get rid of the cuts to medicade. and work with us to improve the existing system. reporter: schumer fired back at mitch mcconnell, the majority leader, ab the obstruction charge saying republicans probably do not want to go home and
that many people understand the intricate details of this bill and how it s different from the house and people have lives to live. they re not able to study this stuff all day like we do. this doesn t ring true to me. well, the polls show that we now have a low of 12%. that s the number, 12% of americans support this. i think melissa: my point is they don t know what it is. leslie, do you think that they really understand enough of it to say 11% may say they support it because the rest are like, i don t really know what s there so i can t say i support it. no question that they re not gonna know as much as the three of us. however, they do know when the cbo says, look, 26% decrease in medicade by 2026. then has more information showing the longer this goes on, you then have a 35% decrease by 2036. they understand less people and more people getting kicked off. they also understand that
they call it the grass eater movement. the men would rather stay home and play video games. it sounds farfetched. but there s a report out just two days ago under scores this. i ll give you a key stat. recreational computer time is up 45% for this group. overall leisure time is only up 40%. they don t go the work. they stay home and play video games. melissa: that s are people that are of prime working age, 25-54. they are not disabled. and they are on medicade. they are not working. this was from peter cope, who wrote this, thinks a better long term solution would be eliminate all forms of public support except for those who are unable to work and eliminate all poverty programs since they have not reduced poverty since they were established in 1965. the argument against that would be, what about people trying to