think graham/cassidy does. do you think it is easier for you to get your bill a hearing your bill an opportunity to pass if this alexander murray compromise goes through? is that making your job easier or harder to get your larger overhaul bill to be considered and passed? i haven t thought that through, chuck. i do think, if there s flexibility given stakes to lower premiums and if the cost-sharing reduction payments aren t a free windfall for the insurance companies, but can lower costs, that would be better for some of the folks, those struggling families and i am all about those families. my bill will take care of itself because the problems of obamacare will only worsen s if we can do something for the working families i m all about that. let me ask you this. you guys have a lot of stuff piling up by the end of the year. and there are some things that seem as if they re must-passes. but some things are must pass that may not pass. let me ask you. when you prioritize, we have
how to make csrs come from congress to bring down premiums for individuals in the marketplace come from congress and not be subject to the executive branch just for the reason that the president moved a couple days ago, that he could cancel them. so here s what the deal entails right now, what democrats want, they get two years of funding for the subsidize, the cautionary reduction payments. they also get a little north of $10 milli $100 million in obamacare outreach funding, so the ability to more or less get people into the exchanges, let people know enrollment is happening, those sorts of things. what republicans get, this is extremely important if the deal has any future whatsoever, is on the regulatory flexibility side. with eheard a lot about this during the repeal and replace debate. and we heard the reiteration from 1.0 to graham cassidy at the end. states what the ability to apply for waivers and get waivers from obamacare related to tailoring the regulations to better serve k
thousand people who will benefit. most people will not benefit. rick. yeah, i would say this. first off, the act of itself of not funding the csrs, i agree with you, it s not going to make premiums lower. all right, so we just unmasked the president s justification. false justification. no. what the president is doing is saying number one, it s illegal. number two, congress, you have to act to lower premiums. he s done some things that will lower premiums, but the congress needs to do more. and that s the point that ron johnson and mark meadows and a group of republicans are going to put something on the table this week that s going to lower premiums, in exchange for conservatives voting for these cost-sharing reduction payments. if the democrats are serious about trying to lower premiums mr. santorum the gentleman you just talked about, they need to do that. been waiting seven years for a republican proposal that will lower premiums. there has not been one republican
effectively to think the affordable care act through administrative action? the president first let me flashback. the president is not getting the affordable care act. blessed take the cautionary reduction payments as an example for their unconstitutional. a court has since opened and with the president is focused on, middle-class families. they are paying 30 or $40,000 a year for premiums plus deductibles on top of that. think about that. $30-$40,000 a year.something damaging the credibility of the affordable care act. these premiums are unaffordable. center comments on the go you cancel the president is the very healthcare decision that he made this week. let s listen. plans to continue to think about the family on the kitchen table cannot afford the premiums of the affordable care act as it now is. we do not wish to do anything, we do not want to make it worse for them. the short-term continuation of the payments for cost-sharing reduction will
effectively to think the affordable care act through administrative action? the president first let me flashback. the president is not getting the affordable care act. blessed take the cautionary reduction payments as an example for their unconstitutional. a court has since opened and with the president is focused on, middle-class families. they are paying 30 or $40,000 a year for premiums plus deductibles on top of that. think about that. $30-$40,000 a year.something damaging the credibility of the affordable care act. these premiums are unaffordable. center comments on the go you cancel the president is the very healthcare decision that he made this week. let s listen. plans to continue to think about the family on the kitchen table cannot afford the premiums of the affordable care act as it now is. we do not wish to do anything, we do not want to make it worse for them. the short-term continuation of the payments for cost-sharing reduction will