maria: i want to ask you about your timeline because we know or at least the public understands that you can t move forward on things like tax reform and some of the other priorities on the agenda without getting this done. so this really takes on that much more importance and tomorrow we will hear from the cbo in terms of its analysis. i want to get your take on that because people want to understand how significant you can get the costs down. i m being told that the affordable care act, obamacare in general costs a trillion dollars more than the original cbo forecast, is that true? it is and, you know, cbo is the only referee that we are able to use, to allow to use and you have to go with numbers. they have been off on healthcare estimates a lot over the years, i would say and on other things. under obamacare they said it was doing to reduce the deficit and increased.
a make sense. one, having a copper plan available for consumers. i support that. that already existed. that already existed. that was the bad apple plan the president wanted to get rid of, this high catastrophic-type insurance. low premium, high deductible. we need to offer that to consumers. this plan, obamacare in general is a great start. it s not an end to itself, it s a means to an end. why didn t they do it that way to begin w why didn t they allow people to keep plans to begin with. the whole idea is so cynical when you think about democrats pretending this is a legitimate strategy when even senator manchin himself say can t offer any bills with obamacare. the president doesn t want legislative fixes. why did they not put the copper plan in the first place, they called these predatory plans. the idea was to get young people off cheap plans and have to buy into bronze and silver plans to
it s hard to say how regular that will be. but as you mentioned, there are larger questions beyond that about obamacare in general. will enough young people sign up? we still don t know this. to subsidize the old. medicare, will they find doctors. will the people that signed up be able to see doctors on a regular basis or will they like a lot of places in europe have to wait mochtsed a months to see a specialist. we don t know this yet. it starts today and we ll begin to find out what exactly obamacare will do to our health care system and that of course will have political consequences. . quality of care could go down. but some americans are suffering not one, but two of the president s broken promises. you can keep your plan and your premium will go down. today s new york times recounts the 1k3er7s of one woman who was actually kicked off of her plan because of obama care. the best she could do on the
failure. check this out. with obamacare comes something else that americans really don t want to face and that s new taxes. taxes that will be on our tax bill because we were talking to charles payne about this earlier this hour in our first hour of the show. he wanted to tell us about 2014 to bring in new tax fees. 2% tax on every health plan. 2.3% on medical device tax. 3.5% fee on insurers for plans sold on healthcare.gov. isn t that amazing? we have got to go to the web sight to get our insurance. and by doing so then, there is is a 3. a% fee for using the web site, that ends up getting passed on to us eventually. what this really hurts, as charles talked about earlier, it research and development from our medical companies to perhaps find cures for things or to treat people better. that is one of the big complaints about the affordable care act obamacare in general. if this all gets watered down and everybody is in
that pool. that there is not enough money for research and development. that s one of the big concerns about obamacare in general. remember, we were supposed to be saving about $2,500 per family year and you are seeing these premium that was are multiple times what you re normally paying in a year and then you are finding out about these taxes it doesn t stop just at those high premiums. bottom lining, everybody would agree that something has to be done about healthcare in this country, however, they would probably like to take a better approach than what we are seeing right now. senator joe manchin, one of the leading democrats from virginia has put together a bipartisan bill to try to address this issue to come up with a better plan of iment plementing good healthcare that people can feel good about that s the master idea. they have put their lives on the line for our freedom. dealing with another pay