cbo issued its report three weeks before any committee voted on affordable care act and. so i think senator mcconnell is going to have real difficulty. his mainstream republicans don t like it because it cuts back on medicate and, remember med dade is for poor people, but 60% goes to people in nursing homes and it affects their kids. you re a kid, 40, 50, your mom or dad are in a nursing home, you could be kicked out. what would you do? you have to take them home. maybe mom and dad has to stop working to take care of them. maybe they have to shell out thousands of dollars out of their pockets. so it s a what about opoid coverage? so many of our republican senators have made a campaign, just identifiably of getting opoid coverage since medicaid
introducing the secretary of health and human services and the director of the office of management and budget, getting their reaction to the congressional budget office report. we ll obviously have more tomorrow as we go forward. with that, let me turn it over to dr. tom price, the secretary of health and human services. thanks, sean. thank you so much. it was a good cabinet meeting that we had. during the meeting the cbo report came out. i think it s important that we ask the question compared to what. and the fact of the matter is that this is about real people. it s about real people s lives, the health coverage that they have and the health care that they receive. the fact of the matter is that right now, current law, we have individuals who have health coverage but no health care. it s incredibly important to appreciate that. the coverage numbers are in fact going down. if if obamacare if the aca went away there would be 20 million who would not have coverage. the cbo loo
the 28 million who would lack insurance that year under the current law. let s get some more on this blistering assessment of the impact of the republicans obamacare replacement plan. tom price saying we disagree strongly. the report is not believable. cnn s sunlen serfaty is on capitol hill. walk us through the report with specifics. wolf, certainly these numbers are much worse for republican leaders on capitol hill than what they were expecting earlier today. showing that millions of americans, as you said, could potentially be facing losing their coverage if this republican plan is signed into law. now, the top lines of the cbo report, the non-partisan cbo report, just out in the last hour. the big top-line number. in 201,814 million more people would be uninsured under this legislation than under the current law. that would rise to 21 million in 2020 and then a staggering 26
plan. the entire plan includes the regulatory apparatus that we have the ability to use that the previous administration used significantly. we want to use it to make se certain that patients are helped and costs are decreased. they ignored completely the other legislative activities that we ll put into place to make certain that we have an insurance market that actually works. we disagree strenuously with the report that was put out. we believe our plan will cover more individuals at a lower cost and give them the choices they want for the coverage that they want for themselves and their families, not that the government forces them to buy. i am pleased to be joined by the omb director, mr. mulvaney. we haven t had a chance to read the entire report yet. we are seeing some of the same top-line summaries that you folks have seen. i want to talk about one of the parts i have seen that deals beyond coverage. and that deals with premium costs. one of the things we have said about this p
coverage. then you have the conservative conservative republican senators who think this bill goes too far. so senator mcconnell is has got a very, very difficult job behind him for ahead of him. and he only has the bill to blame. not anything we re doing. he, you know democrats to a person are not voting for this bill. he s got to get the votes, they asked for that when they asked for reconciliation and the bill made it extremely difficult for him to do it. i would like to say that the leadership in the house and senate as well have made fools of people in congress when they denied that they write it all night without seeing a cbo, congressional office budget report that was imminent was a matter of days away. why couldn t they ask for a and