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security, or medicaid. so it s i think to our a lot of our colleagues, a surprise that they come up with a plan, particularly as the issue is really the individual market. so how do you stabilize the individual market. it s almost like they re proposing a hat trick, oh, well, let s go over here and destabilize the medicaid market. so i think to our colleagues, no matter what state you represent, the notion that you ve had stable health care in the medicaid market was no reason to support this legislation because it is literally a cut to that program. and they all had they all came from states, all 50 state medicaid directors opposed it. they at least had that going for them. i want you to listen for a moment to what the mayor of san juan had to say tonight. i want to discuss the situation in puerto rico with you before we go. let s listen to this. my wish is that we focus on the issue at hand. and the issue at hand is how do we get lives and how do we get things needed to save
and senator, you ve been in the meetings with the democrats on the finance committee and with all the democrats in the senate. how difficult has it been for the democrats in states where donald trump won to stay with the party on this position? well, i think we ve tried to talk about, you know, principles. the president had tweeted during his campaign that he was not for cut canning medicare, social security, or medicaid. so it s i think to our a lot of our colleagues, a surprise that they come up with a plan, particularly as the issue is really the individual market. so how do you stabilize the individual market. it s almost like they re proposing a hat trick, oh, well, let s go over here and destabilize the medicaid market. so i think to our colleagues, no matter what state you represent, the notion that you ve had stable health care in the medicaid market was no reason to
medicaid. no, what it does is say there s a better way to do things. imagine a system if you will where if you have insurance through your employer, but you fall on tough times and you fall into the medicaid market, that that transition is seamless. imagine if you go the other way, from medicaid to employer sponsored insurance that s seamless. imagine you go from medicaid to the exchange market that that transition is seams will. right now there are huge holes in the things. we don t want to pull out the rug from anybody. but you found with all due respect, you found $880 billion. isn t this another way to come up with the close to a trillion dollars the president said as much to on fox business. you re finding almost $1 trillion in savings in order to be able to pay a tax cut that is that is revenue neutral. andrea, andrea, in the medicaid system right now, one out of every three physicians in this nation who ought to be seeing patients in medicaid are not. we ought to as
accounting and budgeting office. 880 billion cut from medicaid. that goes against the president s promise not to cut medica medicaid? no, it says there is a better way to do things. imagine a system, if you have insurance through your employer, you fall on tough time, and fall into the medicaid market, that transition is seamless. if you go from medicaid to employer sponsored insurance, that is seamless. medicaid to the individual market or exchange market. right now, there are holes in these thing, we don t want to you found 880 billion, isn t this just another way to come up with a trillion dollars, the president said as much on fox business, you are finding a trillion dollars in order to pay a tax cut that is revenue neutral? in the medicaid system right