regulatory reforms to accompany that. the president was glad to see the national federation of businesses announce their support the the american health care act. and fib has identified health care as long with small business taxes as their two biggest priorities. the president s health care agenda will address many of their concerns for small businesses. yesterday of course the cbo released their report on the american health care ability. i know there have been significant concerns about the cbo report. i want to give a little bit of context to the numbers that have been going around. in 2013, the cbo estimated that 24 million people would have coverage under obamacare in 2016. they were way off, off by 13 million people. over 50%. in fact, only 10.4 million people were actually cuffed. reports now suggest that number has dwindled down to 9 million. cbo coverage estimates are confidently wrong and more importantly did not take into conversation the comprehensive nature of the three p
pat toomey now joining the conferring saying i can t be for this unless you make changes. let s bring in congressman joe bart ton of he texas. congressman, thank you for joining us. i want you to jump in on this conversation. as a member of the freedom caucus, is this a bill that you can vote on as it currently stands or do you need the see obamacare repealed wholesale? well i vod for it in committee in the economy commerce committee i m the vice chairman but i offered an amendment that i withdrew which i hope to offer again at the rules committee that ends the medicaid expansion, in other words adding new medicaid enrollees in the healthy adult population. instead of ending that in three years as the current bill does, my amendment would end it in one year and then i would go back to the original approximately two thirds federal match one third state match beginning in 2023. the current bill never it
the exchange is sought out the to cover that s people. we are finding out that you have got 9 million plus who are getting it right now. they have no coverage. for more and more 345er7bs they are losing their coverage, their choices are gone. tax credits and competition that will come in phases two and three in the prongs we talked about will further drop prices further increase competition. cbo s score didn t take into conversation that. again if you look at their numbers you have got roughly just over 9 million people on exchanges. the cbo number says that 14 million people in the first year alone will lose coverage. it doesn t take a ton of analysis to recognize that that doesn t make any sense logically. you can t only have 9-plus million people on the exchange and say in the first year alone where there is no touch to medicaid or anything else, you are just removing the individual mandate that forced people to buy something they didn t want in the first place that it s going to le
we continue working with congress. we will be releasing a budget later this week it s part and parcel of our approach forwards fiscal responsibility talking about the path forward how we address both the ending of fiscal year 17 that goes until september 309:this year and then the budget which would be fiscal year 18. but how we address our budge deficits, our debt and spending going forward is a holistic conversation that the secretary and dr. mulvaney and others, the president and vce president, are engaging with congress on. our job under the law was to notify them under the authority that they passed. when it will expire. and i think the secretary will continue to work with congress on a path forward as far as our debt. let me get your reaction to jonathan gruber one of the architects of obamacare. he put the plan that you put forward if it s implement a quote scam. your reaction to that would be
yeah, i would love to have every member support this on both sides of the aisle. i think the president s principles and goals are going to benefit every american. obviously the more support we get, the better. as we continue to meet with them and talk with them and get their ideas i think we will have an phenomenal outcome for this bill. there is a lot of ways that we continue to get gather input and ideas. the more that we can get that will achieve that goal, great. i hope that he continues to provide us with constructive ideas and we look forward to getting as many of them in as possible. major. let s continue that conversation. the manage s amendment is a testament that the bill as written can t pass. i don t think that s no, it is an admission of what we stated at the beginning of this process, which is that the president was going to engage with members to hear their ideas, he welcomed them. director mulvaney stated it several times, and secretary price, the vice president.