yesterday in the executive order where he opens up the insurance marketplace and that is my legislation, hr13d, across state line purchase of health insurance. i m thrilled that he has done this by executive order. sandra: you ve been calling for that for quite some time. yes. sandra: the president is moving forward here. democrats aren t happy about that. one could have assumed that but they are speaking out. nancy pelosi and chuck schumer issued a statement saying it s a spiteful act, a pointless sabotage leveled at the middle class and hard working families. well, what you have to realize is the affordable care act marketplace is imploding. there are 10.4 million americans in this marketplace. 9 million get a subsidy because
with me now is marsha blackburn. is the big message in all of this is difficulty in trying to take back an entitlement after it has been signed into law? the difficulty is trying to unravel. the american people want to see it off the books. the escalation rate in insurance premiums is something that makes it unaffordable. the deductibles make it unusable and we knew it would be tough and we d have to do it in phases. phase one is what we re doing right now, the reconciliation bill. budget reconciliation. we can do things that fit within that framework and we re already working on our third phase which is medical malpractice reforms across state line purchase of insurance, my bill and bill: those are big deals. do you get a sense of disappointment the senate did not move forward? we re all disappointed they didn t move forward. we sent them a great foundation
bill: 100 bills. maybe that s the problem. maybe there are too many ideas. i ask you that because mitch mcconnell just yesterday said there is not a cohesive plan to paraphrase his comment. i heard what leader mcconnell said. i disagree with him on that. the way you bring about consensus is by putting different ideas on the table and saying let s do this and let s not do that. my hr314, which is the across state line purchase of health insurance and the president mentioned it last night, that is legislation others worked on prior to 2008 and i have worked on it since that time. some things take a little while to get right. we have legislation. what we re doing now is not arguing over how you want to go a certain direction. what we are doing now is the finish work, the details, just deciding are we nuanceing this way or another way and you are
yet known. bill: donald trump now vowing a replacement plan for obamacare would include healthcare coverage for all. it s not going to be their plan. it will be another plan. they will be beautifully covered. i want to be able to take care of people, end quote. what does that all that mean? martha blackburn. member of the trump transition team back home in tennessee. thank you for coming back here. what does that mean? it means he wants to open up access to affordable healthcare across state line purchase of health insurance, my legislation. association health plans, health savings accounts and let s let the states take the lead in delivering medicaid services for the constituents and the citizens in their states. bill: okay. again, insurance for everybody is what he is quoted as saying. i don t want single payer.
plans, are those the same plans? absolutely. absolutely. across state line purchase of health insurance. association health plans, expanded health savings accounts. now all that is there on health insurance side. leland: will there be individual mandate, yes or no? there will not being an individual mandate. leland: okay. but on the replace side, some of the things that we have already done, 21st century cures, is the precision medicine bill already signed into law. president obama signed that in decent. that is a big step towards reforming delivery systems and payments. leland: are the democrats all wet in their argument they don t really know what the republicans are going to put forth? do you feel you have a really grand idea that we just all haven t read? what is it? i m trying to figure out where this is coming from? there are plenty of bills. there are several bills that these ideas have been brought together in total. you have the american health