issues, many are saying these bills, not just the senate version but the house, as well, they have their issues, as well. you look at the political consequences for so many of these senators, you know, you look at just the overhaul of medicaid, that factor in the senate bill, 20 senators represent states that went ahead and incorporated the medicaid expansion into their states. 18 of them, 18 of those senators are up for re-election in 2020 and 2022. there s trouble if they vote for something constituents can t get behind. right. republicans understand that full well because they ve been profiting off obamacare for the last three election cycles. they ve seen what happened to democrats. i think what people what a lot of republican voters may forget or not understand is that when democrats pass the obamacare passed obamacare, they thought eventually it would all work in such a way that voters were going to be very
trying to force in one-sixth of our economy remake in a week. from the politics to the policy of it. you talked about trying to bring premiums down. trying to bring insurers back in the market and make health care more affordable. what about the policy of it? does it answer the chief challenges left over from obamacare? well, it depends on who you talk to. the critics of the senate bill on the right argue that it doesn t in this regard. that without repealing more robustly a lot of the coverage protections and regulations about how health care functions that exist in the affordable care act, you re not going to have the kind of market situation where premiums go down because you re going to have a broader array of coverage choices that will make it more affordable for young and healthy people to buy insurance, to motivate them to buy insurance because the prices will be better. on the other side, there s a
obamacare is a disaster. it s dead. the way this bill cuts health care is heartless. give us a chance to fix this system. we can do better than this. senate republicans are trying to con americans into thinking that they are fixing problems. what they re doing is causing new ones. are there tapes? you re going to be very disappointed when you hear the answer. don t worry. he has known for weeks that there were no tapes, and yet he strung the american people along. does the president regret the tweets? i don t think so. a reality talk show host. this is not designed to be entertainment. this is new day with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. this is new day. friday, june 23rd, 6:00 in new york. chris is off this morning.
this. some people believe without a mandate you don t have healthy, young americans in the system that enables the health care system to pay for older people and sick people at rates that are not unfair and punitive. one of the reasons why the obamacare market never worked as envisioned is that the penalties for not having insurance under obamacare were never enough to get the young and healthy into the system in the numbers that were projected. and that has been part of a problem. so let me switch gears quickly. not only health care made the headlines but the fact that president trump no tapes. what tapes? there are no tapes. tapes? how is this going to backfir backfire? look, i think that the president s impulsiveness in trying to corner his adversaries may have gotten the best of him at this point. and they eventually needed to say some being this because it
the bill in its current fashion. among them senators rand paul and ted cruz. you have to be honest with people, and it has to be paid for. if we re not going to pay for it and keep a lot of stuff that was in obamacare, i think we can do better. my hope is not to defeat the bill but to make the bill better. it s not enough just to pass a bill with obamacare in the title. we ve got to have legislation that fixes the underlying problem. the key to getting an agreement, to getting a bill can pass is we need common sense reforms in the bill that lower the cost of premiums. reporter: this group of four conservative senators have said that they are willing to negotiate on this bill. the timeline here is very brief. we have yet to hear from the congressional budget office. they re expecting to weigh in sometime at the beginning of next week. mitch mcconnell has said that he wants the bill passed before the fourth of july recess. if you look at the calendar, that likely means that this