pre-existing conditions are going to see their coverage skyrocket, even disappear, because what happens when you have when you have plans that are not offering the essential health benefits or essentially are not robust, comprehensive plans, then the people who actually have pre-existing conditions are not going to be able to be covered. so you re going to have tons of people who are going to be kicked off their health insurance. i think it s going to be more than rocky. i think it s going to be a debacle, and trump is going to own it. so what happens next? i would just raise one point on that. the executive orders that he signed and is contemplating don t do anything to break apart the essential benefits that obamacare created. all this does is give people more options and able to have access to more insurance plans. right now, say if you live in the state of west virginia, there may be a cheaper plan available in maryland, but because you re constrained by
people still left in the exchanges. so let s discuss now. hello, every one. welcome to the program. hey, don. so, amanda, the president has said many, many times that republicans failed to repeal obamacare, if they did, that he would let it fail. is this the fix that republicans were looking for all along, do you think? well, here. i think trump is right on the policy, but again, the way he goes about things are a little questionable. i m not a huge fan of using executive orders to enact drastic policy changes. that said, as someone who buys health care on the individual market, who has seen the pain of premium increases with obamacare, i m extremely hopeful that now being able to buy insurance across state lines, possibly from different associations that can meet my family s needs, i m very optimistic as what s to come. i think it s going to be rocky
that s not factually correct. yes, they do. that s not correct. talk to people who have one choice and talk to people who have seen massive premium spikes. that s not true across the board, scott. a great many people is collapsing. that is absolutely pay fact. scott, that s not a fact. made his point earlier about the association health plans. they are not going to take effect immediately. agencies now in the federal government have to write regulations and that requires a comment period and so it will be several months before we actually see this take effect. so people are going to have a chance to see how the regs are written and they ll have a chance to prepare for it, is it won t be sort of an overnight change. this has been a stable of republican solutions on health care for a very long time. for as long as i ve been involved in campaigns for the last several years people have been talking about the con set of selling health care plans across state lines. it s a
idea of putting kelly and others out, i think the more they do that, you see the contrast teen those people and the president and they seem more presidential there, they re calming, their self-deprecating humor. they know how to, if they don t want to answer a question, to suck sipgtel change the subject, right? yes. and in ways that he can t do. well, all of that is a 100% true, but also we re seeing week after week the story is tillerson, this week it s john kelly. meanwhile, when is the business of the american people getting done? all of this is distraction. thank you. when we come back, president trump taking health care into his own hands signing an executive order to dismantle obamacare, but what happened to all of his criticism of barak obama s executive orders? what happened with that? when you think of saving money,
these state lines, these artificial barriers that keep consumers trapped in these plans that don t really serve them, it really just serves the insurance companies of the there s no reason that every insurance company should have to have a different agency in every single state. this isn t how auto insurance works. it s not how a lot of things works. if the cancer association of america decides to start offering their own plans that perhaps specialize in cancer treatment and can offer more bargaining for those medicines, by all means, it really could be wonderful. and so i think people should open ep their minds to the possibilities that exist here because clearly what we have now is not working. well, scott, but listen, there s discussion hang on. scott, there s discussion about getting rid of the subsidies that support obamacare or the affordable care act, and if that happens, isn t the whole marketplace collapse? well, the marketplace is already collapsing. we have almost half