care program that is ensuring millions and millions of people, that is giving people access to doctors and say let it fail, it seems the height of irresponsibility. so it is possible that republicans and democrats will start to work behind the scenes to shore up the exchanges and to do the things that need to be done. on the other hand, that s going to require leadership. hillary, your friend senator chuck schumer is speaking about this very thing on the senate floor. let s listen. we ve proposed a bill by senator shaheen that would guarantee the premium reduction payments that insurers say is the number-one thing we could do right now to stabilize the individual marketplace. second, we ve proposed a bill by senators carper and tim kaine that would create a reinsurance program that would create a program for the individual health insurance market, again, aimed at stabilizing the marketplace. and, third, we ve proposed a bill by senator mccaskell that would enable any american livin
will again raise the screen as the kind of people they want to take, even the direction of medicaid coming to them at this point? we seen that in obamacare. they re bailing out because it s been too expensive and they have their hands on the thoughtments of power. i don t sister to tell you that. so the positive thing about this bill that s truly positive is that it attempts to lower private insurance rates immediately by giving certainty to the insurance companies in that insurance market. for example, we found the cost fair i sharing reduction payments, that have been a big source of contention, insurance companies have been raising rates because they re not sure they re getting those payments. now they can set him down those rates. there is also $15 billion a year for the first two years to create so-called invisible high rick pools. if the insurance companies have high cost patients, aids, kidney failure, pros stated cancer, then there is 15ple to put in reinsurance pools so that
insurers tell the federal government how much they want to price their plans for next year and if they want to participate in the obamacare market. the states have seen insurers say they want to hike rates 20% where they don t want to participate next year. by next week they need to signal what they want to do. what goes into that decision to give if you re a health insurer what goes into that? they want to know is the affordable care act going to be around cost-sharing reduction payments, $8 billion in payments. this is cost-sharing reduction payments to help low income people pay for their co-pays, this is focused on a lawsuit the house brought a couple years ago, the obama white house, the trump white house continuing the lawsuit and what donald trump has said, he hasn t said much. he said they will continue the
closed door meetings on a variety of initiatives. his administration has to decide today whether or not they ll keep paying insurance companies to participate in obamacare s exchanges. there is a long running court battle over cost-sharing reduction payments. a lot of house republicans don t like the subsidies. the white house has not staked out a clear position about them. if the payments stop, though, insurance companies are expected to flee obamacare s marketplaces. shannon: as peter mentioned vice president mike pence is heading to capitol hill for a series of meetings with lawmakers to help push the president s legislative agenda. his press secretary mark lauder. can you tell us what the vice president will focus on in the meetings today? when the vice president heads to capitol hill this afternoon the budget proposal rolling out later this week and also on tax reform, something
chris: i want to ask you a direct question, sir. sure. chris: will he sign a government funding bill that does not include funding for the border wall? i new i think you saw his answer, which is we don t know yet. we are asking for our priorities and, importantly, we are offering to give democrats some of their pyreties as well. priorities as well. they want cost-sharing reduction payments as part of obamacare. we have offered to open the discussions to give the democrats something they want in order to get something we want. chris: okay. let me pick up on that, because on friday you did offer democrats a trade, funding for the border wall in return for continuing sub city byes subsidies that already exist to insurance companies to help pay for lower income people who get health insurance. here you are. we d offer them $1 of csr payments for $1 of wall payments right now. that s the offer that we ve given to our democratic colleagues. chris: democrats say that is a non-star