flights get canceled. like that presumably has been true for every other hhs secretary, and everyone else who takes commercial air. that s right. we talked to the staff for secretary burrwell, secretary sebelius, the last two administrators under president obama. between eight years of their time in office they were only able to identify one charter flight, when secretary sebelius was in alaska and trying to get to a rural village. and as you voted, chris, there have been at least 24 flights that price has taken since may alone. and that is the floor. at least 24. yeah, why do you say at least 24? does that mean that we don t actually know the full total yet? it means that we re in the middle of our reporting. and i don t want to step on any stories that might be coming. okay. one of the dazzling details here is that in june, according to your reporting here, in june, price spoke at a physician s association conference in san diego where he vowed to wring out wasteful spending
it s a ritz-carlton in laguna beach. it strikes me that it s a little bit of a tough sell to say, i need to take chartered jets because sometimes commercial flights get canceled. like that presumably has been true for every other hhs secretary, and everyone else who takes commercial air. that s right. we talked to the staff for secretary burrwell, secretary sebelius, the last two administrators under president obama. between eight years of their time in office they were only able to identify one charter flight, when secretary sebelius was in alaska and trying to get to a rural village. and as you voted, chris, there have been at least 24 flights that price has taken since may alone. and that is the floor. at least 24. yeah, why do you say at least 24? does that mean that we don t actually know the full total yet? it means that we re in the middle of our reporting. and i don t want to step on any stories that might be coming. okay. one of the dazzling details here is that in jun
difference here of 18 million americans. cbo saying that under obamacare, 18 million more americans will be insured ten years from now than under the republican plan. that s still an awfully big number, isn t it? well, let s remember something else, steve. the cbo is scoring the plan that we have now that s been passed through my committee on energy and commerce, heading to the house floor. that s a snapshot of one-third of what we re going to do. the cbo is not looking what tom price is going to be doing to making insurance more affordable and all the things he can do as secretary of health and human services, much like what secretary burrwell did. none of the changes that we know that secretary price will implement to make insurance more affordable and more competition. none is factored into the score because it hasn t happened yet, but it will. the third specie, we re going to be moving legislation to have competition across state borders and to deal with to reform. things thacan
likely know, house speaker paul ryan is talking abo ing about p out medicare. he s arguing it is a drag. there s a better way to insure those people. medicare is an incredibly important part of our nation s financial and health security for our seniors for over 50 years at this point. we know that what has happened and what is the truth is the life of the medicare trust fund or our ability to pay for those benefits has increased since the passage of the affordable care act. we also know medicare spending since the passage of the affordable care act, we saved $473 billion and that s for the taxpayer. secretary burrwell, thank you so much for being here this morning, we really appreciate your insights. thank you so much for having me. obama s deputy national security adviser has to say about donald trump s transition of power.
change as part of their campaign to boost signups for obamacare. tweeting out this video encouraging people to enroll for health insurance under the affordable care act. there was a big surge in signups. more than 100,000 people enrolled the day after the election. i am joined now by secretary burrwell. secretary, thank you for being here. really appreciate it. thank you for having me. so president-elect trump and the republican controlled congress have said they ll repeal and replace obamacare. although of course we did hear mr. trump soften his stance, saying he wants to keep things like making sure people can stay on their health care even if they have pre-existing conditions, making sure that young people can stay on their parent s health care until they re 26 years old. my question for you, can you have it both ways? or if you essentially gut obamacare, does that mean that you can t pass those other things mr. trump wants to keep in place? no, those things, the things like t