got this through the house. and, you know, he basically denied that anyone would lose coverage. he pointed to this $8 billion from the upton amendment and said that was going to fully cover people with pre-existing conditions. but most of the not to interrupt you, but what about medicaid as well? there s a problem there as well. so how can you deny that 24 million people coming from the congressional budget office could feasibly lose their health care under this? it just doesn t make sense. the republican line right now is to say that everyone is going to be adequately covered. and it really goes back to a corner that trump painted himself into on the campaign trail. when he came out and said he was going to repeal obamacare and he also said that people were going to have better and cheaper health insurance. so he needs to do both of those two things while also saving money to fund his later goals of a tax cut and infrastructure spending. democrats are not holding back atall. t
right here in the same community but just see these issues so differently. the maga hats, supportive of congressman reed in sticking up for him and his assertion this new gop health care plan would be better than obamacare and those folks who were fans of obamacare not wanting to hear it and there was a real friction between them. earlier today when you were at the town hall that we saw the sound bite from, when you spoke to in of those people, did they express they had some issues with obamacare? not in the morning meeting but th afteoon, a fellow got up who, just a family man and he said, i don t want to get in a fight over this but the affordable care act isn t working for me right now. his family was paying $1,000 a month premium and that he had an $11,000 a year deductible. he said this just isn t working for me. this is not health care i can use. he did bring that voice into this discussion. just because the obamacare plan does do lots of good things for
you did not come on here to agree. we want to you butt up against each other. it looks like i m the only one that s an interrupter here. this will go a big problem for republicans. democrats to have take oh a lot of seats the get majority back. so congressman tom reid in new york at a town hall earlier today. i want to take a listen to him. i ll let the politics take care of itself. we know that the affordable care act is collapsing as we speak. i know it is going out in our community in the next couple of weeks. we know that people aren t having access because the co-pays and deductibles are going up. at least i can look them in the face and say i m trying to be part of the effort to fix this.
and hearing him say that, saying, hearing people s personal stories and seeing that reflect in his earlier town halls and how those people were so personal and so angry about the change in health care policies going forward as well. it s got to be tough for him. beth fouhy, thanks. i want to bring in yahoo! news national correspondent hunter walker and jennifer epstein to talk more about all about this. hunter, i m going to start with you. let s play a bit of president trump from thursday s rose garden ceremony, and then we ll talk. as far as i m concerned, your premiums are going to start to come down. we re going to get this passed through the senate. i feel confident. there are a lot of questions about this. it could lead to some interesting, internal fights within the republican party. people like rand paul and ted cruz who really wanted a full repeal of obamacare, and they don t think this went far enough. at the same time you have other
social sizthr losses and privatize their gains and those those are things i still don t like about the product. i do believe we need to reach a conclusion because we promised the american people and i promised the people of arizona we d repeal and replace obamacare. at the end of the day, i think there will be a senate bill and those two bills at some point will have to come together. joining us now, representative steve kohn who voted against trumpcare. he has a pre-existing condition as a polio survivor. thanks for joining me. happy to be with you. so you saw how some senators reacted to the health care vote this week. what was your reaction? i thought it was one of the most mean and cruel, harmful things that congress has ever done. they repealed a bill that gave a lot of people health care, will take 24 million people off of health care, will give a billion