not affordable to get, and what they get may not be real insurance in terms of the high deductible you are talking about. for some of those people, these less expensive plans, often one-third the price obamacare plans, might be a good option for them. laura: pre-existing conditions, what happens? these plans don t have those obamacare mandates about pre-existing conditions. laura: so if you have lung cancer. for somebody like that other options would probably make more sense. but for other individuals, these may be the cheaper laura: young people? young people, healthy people that are already being shut out of the obamacare marketplace. laura: because of the high costs. because the way the plans were structured, the premiums are so high for the young and healthy they ve artie been driven out of the marketplace. our opponents talk about this as if we are right now living in the land of milk and honey and everything is perfect and nobody is lacking insurance. we are tal
mandate. that will hurt some folks, a lot of folks, who can t get insurance. she is looking for things like subsidies to stay in place or even legislation to shore up the obamacare marketplace. this is the kind of thing that will be played out on the floor before it goes to a full vote. and john, perhaps, perhaps, as this goes, looking at the hours tick away, it may get to that vote late tomorrow as early as late tomorrow. all right. just before the weekend, so the senators can go home. suzanne malveaux, thank you very much. new friction with america s closest ally, british prime minister theresa may says president trump was wrong to retweet anti-muslim propaganda and at least one member of parliament there says the president ought to be locked up. this began when the president shared videos posted by the deputy leader of an ultranational group after he was rebuked by the british prime minister. the president responded theresa may, don t focus on me, focus on the destructive radica
companies. it s not accurate. the bailout term is used by republicans and you can decide this one at home, ladies and gentlemen, but it s money that goes to insurance companies that helps them, encourages to them to stay in this marketplace. so call it what you will, but the center piece of this is money, i ll call it money, to insurance company frs the federal government. you can call it a subsidy, a bailout, whatever you want, but it s money. that is what the bill is. is this proof that the president, the last the president talks to. he said he was for it the other day. that this is fixi ining obamaca. we are not voting on something that fixed obamacare. so then the white house said no, we re against it. and nourng he s open to it? it s intended to be if you walk the halls on capitol hill? how do they deal with this? from republican, this would be a hard vote for a lot of kopzs to take because they would be fixing obamacare. they would need to know the president was going to
stabilize the obamacare marketplace. he asked lamar alexander to broker the deal, then yesterday, the president tweeting he d against it, but now this, about an hour ago, from a frustrated sounding senator alexander. i talked to the president last night for the fourth time in ten days on the subject. he encouraged me as he has from the beginning to proceed with this. he said he s perfectly willing to consider it. he doesn t want insurance companies to be bailed out in his words. neither do we. help me? i mean, he clearly, the president you know, has been consistent on saying if we can t get anything, we ll work with democrats on this. so he has talked about a bipartisan bill a lot. i was in the pool spray yesterday when he was meet wg the senate finance committee. he said you know, he s for some type of agreement, but doesn t want to boil oail out the insur
leaders are counting on that to provide revenue in order to do tax reform. sandro? sandra: what about the next steps on health care reform? there are talks on capitol hill, bipartisan talks between lamar and as lamar alexander and pat murray. what they are working on and see if they can come up with a way to help stabilize the obamacare marketplace. if they can get enough support, they say they will bring in the proposed piece of legislation to majority leader mitch mcconnell. the senate s top democrat is encouraging the senators. our health care system needs it, our constituents need it. they do not want premiums to go up in coverage to go down. it would be a great start for some bipartisanship in this place, which i hope we can continue on issues.