is what the white house is saying and maybe trying to tease out some more specifics. what we have right now is a frame work. i think it s a frame work. i like the messaging. i think tax reform is essential. we re off to a good start. but there are some big policy questions that need to be answered, and some holes that need to be filled by congress. and maybe a question that i would ask is what type of direction the president would want to give the bill writers in the house and senate on questions like the size of the tax credit, the child tax credit is one example that jumps to mind. sandra: speaking of the hole in the deficit, nancy pelosi verbalized her criticism for the plan. she said this, after republican tax plan blows a multitrillion dollar hole in the deficit, they will sharpen their knives for social security, medicare, medicade. bernard, heavy criticism coming from nancy pelosi, chuck shumer.
expressed concerns about the opioid crisis. we caught up with two on the watch list. [ inaudible ] there are many concerns that i have about the graham-cassidy proposal. they include the fact that they make fundamental changes in the medicade program for the first time in more than 50 years. reporter: with kentucky s rand paul a firm no, gop leadership can only lose one more republican senator and pass this bill. harris? harris: mike, thanks for the update. russia s military generals are showing they are ready for war, putting on fire power for president putin. is this the real reason he skipped the united nations general assembly this week? the message he may be trying to send. and a live report on earthquake rescue efforts in mexico as we continue to watch the frantic movement to try to rescue children entering their third day trapped under the rubble 37
meaning everybody s premiums go up and the system gets turned over. that s the problem with graham-cassidy. harris: if that s the case, why were democrats against the risk pools? i hear you using almost the same terminology. guy? well, i would just respond first of all, hospital and er visits went up under obamacare. we were told they d go down. the opposite was true. it s been another dishonest or inaccurate sales job of obamacare. where do you get the 70 million number? the number on the exchanges is way lower than anyone had anticipated in the obama administration. it s at 10 million. thaepb you have medicade expansion. that does not add up to 70 million. medicade expansion plus the exchange plus the individuals that coverage through whatever state coverage they got. states expanded medicare some how, some way. the reason chris christie is against graham-cassidy it s not 70 million. the reason chris christie is against graham-cassidy, not only does his state lose $4 bi
cuts to health care by 2027. it would cause millions to lose coverage. millions. it would radically restructure and deeply cut medicade. it would bring us back to the days when insurance companies could discriminate against people with preexisting conditions. would get rid of the consumer protections that gives americans access to maternity care, substance abuse of prescription drugs, and it would throw the individual markets into chaos, resulting in 15 million people losing coverage. if they let the cbo do its work, the cbo wasn t pressured to put out something that s just a few lines, this would all be told by cbo. how do we know? but a similar bills in the past have been scored by cbo with similar provision. they re afraid. they are afraid that the public
if you re in a state which is not expanded medicade, you re gonna do great. all those lower north carolina texans, virginians, floridians will have dollars in their state to get health insurance that they currently do not have. if you re a state which has expanded medicade we do our best to hold you harmless. we run it through the chip program. i hear no one complaining about the chip program. the chip program is something on a bipartisan basis has been recognized to be an effective way to provide access and quality care to those in need. we con patient protection. whatever waiver a state wishes to have, they must ensure the secretary that they continue to provide adequate and affordable coverage for those with preexisting conditions. that is our back stop. we preserve mental health parity. ultimately we give the dollars to the state for the state to be