Phases the reconciliation bill, the things were able to do at it department and more legislation is an overall plan that makes it so we can move in the direction of patientcentered health care where patients, families and docs are making medical decisions not the federal government. Shannon Republican Leaders with secretary price are speaking live so lets listen in. It was a topdown government takeover of the health care and thats what weve been working on for years. Its been an open transparent process every step of the way. Weve gone through the Committee Process and hearing through members and were on track. Were on track to bring this bill to the rules Committee Early next week and onto the floor next week. Reporter secretary price, this bill makes medicaid something the president promised he wouldnt do on the campaign trail is the president with this bill keeping his promise to his core supporters . The metric thats always been on washington about medicaid is we determine its succ
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certain pre-existing illnesses are covered and tax coverage and to encourage individuals to gain courage and give states the flexibility they need and have a transition that allows folks to have a soft landing and move from one system to another to get down drug prices, to address medical malpractice. all the things outlined by the president in his joint session and we re enthusiastic in our support of the plan. thank you. shannon: republican leadership and tom price wrapping it up and mike emanual has been listening in. they want it to a floor vote next week. what else do you see them picking up? you see them probing if there s cracks between the president and the capitol hill and tom price a former
holding a mark-up of the health care bill. that means they re trying to figure out what it s going to cost. that panel includes several members of the freedom caucus. they ve been less than thrilled what they ve seen so far and paul ryan encouraging them to speak their minds. we re getting feedback from various members how to improve the bill. now that we have the score we know what we re dealing with and we can incorporate feedback to improve and refine the bill and those conversations are happening between the house and members and before the score we weren t sure and now that we have the score we can make refinements to the bill. this is by the way the legislative process. bill: this is really an intriguing part of the story. mike emanual what are you hearing? the next plan to consider the
the make. they have a plan to replace obamacare to keep some of the affordable care act s more popular features and some republicans expressing reservations and the outlook on the senate side could be a bigger fight. mike emanual. good morning. what are the likely bigger battles ahead for this? we heard some people criticize the subsidies comparing them to obamacare subsidies. the tax credits they don t seem to like in the new proposal and other moderate members expressed concerns on the phasing out of the medicaid expansion if they re state has taken advantage of that expansion and while it does away with gop mandates one critic expressed this concern. the obamacare lite bill said you ll pay the penalty not to the government but an insurance