to stop a march towards socialism. but getting this bill to the floor for an actual vote is going to be an uphill battle. i can t tell you the whip count but i do feel optimistic. are you confident that leadership is going to put this on the floor for a vote? well i m not leadership. like last time, three republican no votes will kill this bill in the senate. right now rand paul is no, number one. he says the legislation doesn t go far enough to repeal obamacare. susan collins is likely no number two. she says she is leaning against it because of concerns it goes too far, which means all eyes are on john mccain, again, lisa murkowski, again, and mike lee. all of them are undecided though for different reasons. as if the day wasn t wild enough, at his first speech before then u.n. genral assembly president trump threatened
toward obamacare. they have not been favored toward anything that the republicans have put forward so far in congress. i want to talk about essential health care benefits. there are not protections for essential health care benefits in this bill. there suntd be. there subject be. the essential health care can you assure people of wyoming that they are not going to lose their health care because of a preexisting condition? those are two entirely different things. this bill protects everyone with a preexisting condition. my wife is a breast cancer survivor. she has been through chemotherapy three times. can you tell them they are not going to get knocked off. you keep interrupting if you like. i m trying to answer your first question. the essential benefits was the obama approach that said you have to buy all of these different kinds of health insurance a lot of which you don t need, can t afford, don t want, isn t right for you and your family. but president obama said he kn
response. that s just russia. then there s the last-ditch furious hail mary effort to repeal obamacare which this time just might work. the white house and republican lead remembers feverishly whipping support for a bill spearheaded by republican senators bill cassidy and lindsey graham. senator graham huddled with vice president pence today on air force one. the party face as september 30th deadline if they want to pass legislation without democratic votes. at this poi at this point that deadline seems to be their best argument to pass this bill. i am encouraging every senator to vote for graham/cassidy because it is our best last chance to get repeal and replace done. everybody knows that the opportunity expires at the ends of the month. paul ryan told me to my face, if you pass it, we pass it. at the end of the day, this is the only process left available
what s going to restrict. graham/cassidy will enmedicaid as we know it, eliminate all the consumer protections in the aca by giving states the opportunity to repeal them. it will lead to a less healthy america. that s what i think we ought to be focusing on. i think pointing at the sanders bill is another attempt at distracting us from the very high stakes right before us in a vote that will be taken next week. given that, don t you wish senator sanders may have waited a few weeks so that that september 30th deadline passed and a bptd vote would have been necessary for something like health care? i do think it s important for us to focus on the very strong bipartisan efforts being made by patty murray and lamar alexander, and many others. i attended two not quite what i asked, senator. not quite what i asked. katy, what did you ask? i asked would you have rather seen bernie sanders wait until after september 30th to talk about medicare for all so that
only one insurance carrier is trying to sell insurance in wyoming. i m trying to get you to answer the question that i asked. obamacare made a guarantee. let me finish my question, and then you can answer it i m not talking about obamacare. i m talking about graham/cassidy. you should because it has failed. respectfully, this is the bill that you are voting for. this is the bill that your constituents. yes. the people of wyoming, the people of america will use if they don t get it through their employer. and they will be much better of. can you tell your voters, the people of wyoming that the costs associated with their preexisting condition will not go.so much that they will not be able to afford health care coverage? people can t afford it now, katie. that s what you don t understand. if they can t afford it now we re trying to get more people able to afford it, custom is why there is additional money coming to wyoming under graham catdy. it will be easier to af