Conservatives arent thrilled because the plan falls way short of a full Obamacare Repeal. Moderates are mad because among other things the senate plan slashes medicaid funding for the elderly and poor. And at the moment, contains no money to help with the opioid epidemic. Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell calls the new framework a good start. While he says changes are welcome, he wants to fast track a final vote next week. Through dozens of meetings open to each and every member of the conference, weve had the opportunity to offer and consider many ideas for confronting the obamacare status quo. We debated many policy proposals. We considered many different viewpoints. In the end, we found that we share many ideas about what needs to be achieved and how we can achieve it. The president said the house bill was mean. The Senate Bill May be meaner. The Senate Republican Health Care Bill is a wolf in sheeps clothing. Only this wolf has even sharper teeth than the house bill. As you ca
clothing. only this wolf has even sharper teeth than the house bill. as you can see, the bill just out little more than an hour, the partisan debate starting very quickly. with us to share the reporting and insights cnn s dana bash, michael sherr of the new york times, cnn s reporter. phil, the secret negotiations are over, the bill is public. what are the biggest policy headlines especially when you look at the senate proposal and compare it to the house bill? yeah. you have to view it through the policy and what it means to that effort to try and get 50 votes, as you were talking about. look, no question, on medicaid you had a lot of expansion state senators who were very concerned about what the house bill did. they got a little bit of a win here. there s a more gradual phaseout of the obamacare medicaid expansion program. the same senators voiced a lot of concerns about proposed extended cuts to medicaid that had been out there for people like senator pat toomey. those are