have speaker ryan s plan. is it clear to you whether you would still be able to get treatment for cancer at this point? well, it s all kind of up in the air. the interpretations, you know, it s kind of a fresh piece of legislation. i guess as long as you can afford to pay the premiums, i guess i could still get treated for cancer. i turn 55 next month or this year, excuse me, not next month, thank god yet. but one of the provisions of the new law is that they can charge up to five times the amount that they charge younger people for a policy. right now, under the patient protection and affordable care act, it s three times. so, i equate that to almost two thirds, you know, jump in my premiums. so, similar question, katie, because you suffer from a rare condition that s called elsers
up. that s what they re counting on and also counting on the president of the united states, donald trump, who they feel gave them a little more clarity than they maybe had before over the course of the last 24 hours. there s a lot of muddle about exactly what he wanted, exactly how they would try to sell this, were they waiting for the congress to come first. they feel like they now have some signals from the president that he is going to be all in on this and on helping them get to 218 votes in the house that s the critical first number for this health care bill to hit and now we know this morning i talked to congressman charlie dent who is a more moderate republican from pennsylvania, where they expanded medicaid and he said look, i m concerned about how fast this moves and about this medicaid provision that could really hurt people in my state. so they have a lot of work still to do, but you know, that fundamental promise is there, and will work in speaker ryan s favor. and peter
speaker ryan, hhs secretary tom price, mick mulvaney, andrew brinberg, and the committee chairmen of the two committees that will be moving on this. guys, everybody has to be on the same page if they re going to move forward with this. that can t just be speaker ryan s plan. they need to know that president trump, health secretary tom price, are all in line with this. they feel like they re in a good place in terms of having a unified front going forward. what s most important is that the legislative process is starting. that s when it gets really complicated inside the republican conference. one thing is true, as you talk about the rank and file who are concerned about what s actually in this bill, that rank and file and not all in line. they are not all yoouveunified. those are the issues that will have to be addressed to even get this process started, let alone across the finish line. phil mattingly, do keep us
interesting and important thing, i think, he kept pointing over toward the democrats and he realized he s got to negotiate and deal with the democrats here to get some of this through. that s going to be the test. and there was a kind of silence on the part of the democrats. yeah, bob. it wasn t as hostile. i think i certainly heard it. there is a realization that donald trump is a product of new york, he s a product of manhattan. he is more comfortable culturally talking to nancy pelosi than, say, paul ryan. i wanted to ask you one other thing, though. the only time i ve been sitting there where there was sort of this noticeable shift was bill clinton when he said the era of big government is over and we republicans laughed. and clinton got us again and again and again. last night of course, he didn t mean it.
done first. i think tax. we re working closely with the house and the senate on coming up with a combined plan that we ll be coming out with that in the near future. our objective is to pass tax reform by the august recess. that s a very aggressive timetable. realistic and something that the president and i are very committed to doing. neil: so by august, voted, done, agreed. and signed. neil: and signed. effective retroactive to the beginning of the year? it s too early to tell whether it s retroactive or not. those are the details that we ll work through as we get through drafting. neil: all right. the reason i go back to obamacare is this feeling that i wouldn t call it a revolt but a dramatic difference of opinion we re seeing play out on the hill between those that like speaker ryan s plan complete with tax credits and other say that s obamacare-like