we were debating the affordable care act, the republicans were all bashing us for cutting $750 billion out of medicare, which we weren t doing either. we weren t proposing any cuts in care. but that s not totally true of the republican cuts. and on the medicaid side, which i m particularly concerned about because of my state, i finally got the acting director to admit that people would lose coverage under the proposal that they ve made for medicaid. there s also a cut in social security disability payments. these are things that the president said he would never touch, and unfortunately, he s breaking that promise. also want to get your reaction to the acting budget chief defending the president s budget proposal. let s listen to that. washington has a spending problem, and it endangers the future prosperity of our nation for generations to come. this budget contains nearly $2.7
that gets some of the people, some of our people further on the right and moves them more towards a yes. so i think there s been a movement there. you know, there s also there s a debate between the people who would like the program to be bigger. the people who would like to cut back even further and also the parliamentarianian. we do have to comply with the reconciliation moves and some of the things we d like to do like selling across states lines, become a problem under the byrd rule and we have to work through that. so there are a number of sides to this debate and one of them does include the parliamentarian, able to get it done under reconciliation. one of the biggest things that seems to be scaring people even in your own ranks is the money taken out of the medicaid side. they re not buying the idea you can it take the money out and still provide better care for people. is that something that is
true? i know you hope it gets changed in the senate and saves you from the severity of this. you will have major leagillionse many who are poor, not have coverage and people with pre-existing conditions who won t get coverage who would have if it stayed as a guarantee as it stays presently. i disagree with that premise. how can it not be true? why do you disagree? if you are pulling money from the medicaid side and redefining pre-existing conditions? how can the numbers stay the same? is every dollar on the medicaid side spent efficiently to the benefit of patient care? i worked as a physician for 25 years. i can tell you the answer to the question. i know the governors came up here and talked to us. never in terms of controlling costs. you know you are cutting the raw payouts after a couple of years. you know from your experience. it has to effect coverage. that is what the cbo said.
are spending less money than we were before. it helps to have patients that not much of an increased cost. the president will find a way to make sure expanded medicaid stays in effect. it will not allow obama cared too can get you in the dirt because it s been a failure. the rates have gone on. thus people have access to the private insurance market. succeeding on the medicaid side. he might talk about the president getting things done are talking about the first 100 days in office. you would give the president to be. do you still feel that way? a lot of things on its plate right now. how is he doing right this moment? right this moment the president is doing pretty well. elizabeth: what could he be doing better? there s so many things that i think the staff has to do that,
we met the new cms director here at the capitol. she s ready to roll and improve what she can on medicare/medicaid side. you brought up the medicare/medicaid. according to your paper, the columbus dispatch, that covers nearly 14,000 in the ohio district you represent. what happens to those 14,000 folks if your bill passes? we allow the governor to continue to have medicaid expansion. we fade it out. until january 2020, they stay on medicaid expansion. the governor can decide to continue to allow them to stay on it as long as they are on it and we pay them as long as they are on it. we grandfather them in at 90% reimbursement. look, the most vulnerable, the people at 100% poverty and less