policies outside the confines of affordable care act regulations. it adds more money to state stabilization funds to help lower premiums, particularly for the sick. the bill also avoided repealing obamacare taxes for wealthy americans, a reversal from the previous gop plan, and it boosts funding to combat the opioid crisis. while the mood coming out of an all gop senators closed door meeting was positive, there are still concerns that the bill doesn t go far enough. the old version repealed most of the obamacare taxes, this repeals about half. reporter: the bill is now in the hands of the congressional budget office which will forecast how much this bill will cost and how much it will impact insurance coverage. the first vote, a critical stoep allow debate on the bill could come as soon as tuesday, and even undecided senators like tom tillis of north carolina are asking their colleagues to allow that vote to go through. i m willing to take that position that we should debate it,
conference, meeting with constituents and intensive conversations with members, our conference has updated the last month s better care discussion draft with additional provisions to make it stronger. reporter: but the plan is not the major overhaul that some senators were looking for. it keeps in place many of the sharp medicaid cuts proposed. it includes a version of the so-called cruz amendment that allows insurers that sell obamacare plans to also offer policies outside the confines of affordable care act regulations. it adds more money to state stabilization funds to help lower premiums, particularly for the sick. the bill also avoids repealing obamacare taxes for wealthy americans, a reversal from the previous gop plan, and it boosts funding to combat the opioid crisis. while the mood coming out of the it all was positive, there are still concerns that the bill doesn t go far enough. no version repealed most of
five principal areas where money was spent was on unemployment insurance, social security, medicaid, state stabilization funds, meaning rescuing states from financial collapse and providing student loans and look at those five things and that is 80% of the money spent so far and not one of those things really creates jobs, and, in a traditional sense but what it has done, white house economists concede is rescued people from even more dire economic circumstances. and they point to, here at the white house, teachers who were not laid off and troopers who were not laid off and people who got extended unemployment insurance or had that he medicaid bills paid by their states because, the recovery act funds were there, to back-stop what would have been enormous budget cuts at the state level and might have denied them medicaid, health care. and that is really the component that is sometimes missing in all of this. and why weren t more jobs created? well, because the kind of funding that wen