foundation is and you just can t build a building unless you agree on what the base is. and so this probably doesn t pass, as people seem to think. in a way, it s better for trump that it doesn t so he can move on. right. because this could be a giant mess. as they say, obamacare is. bob costa, your reporting last night was that the white house and paul ryan s office assume that if this bill went to the floor last night, they would feel the political pressure and want to help this new president have a legislative victory and ultimately vote to pass the bill but when they checked who was with them and not with them last night, they saw that wasn t happening. that s right. my top sources within the white house told me late last night
billion. 50 billion of that roughly is simply giving more tax cuts to the rich. that is, obviously, not going to improve health care. they created a little bit of a piggy bank for the senate, a little bit of legislative slide of hand for the senate to then give back to the house that might improve coverage at the margin. but look. the cold hard fact is that there is nothing that the freedom caucus and the other far right conservatives want that would actually improve the number of people on obamacare on health care and, in fact, the cbo scored this as being no change in the number of people on health care. what they are trying to do is, in effect, roll back the whole insurance market whether it s preexisting conditions, whether it s kids under 26, whether it s ten essential benefits back to where it was before obama which means that essentially a health care system of what it was like before obama, 24 million people, fewer people insured and a lot of them on very inadequate plans tha
on. they go into the no column because it s a lot easier to explain why you voted against this bill than why you voted for this bill. paul ryan is right. a lot of the republican base, they have been waiting for seven and a half years for republicans to replace, repeal and replace obamacare but they most definitely have not been waiting for this bill. mark halpern, i think that is the mistake that both paul ryan and the trump administration have been making and it s a false choice that newt gingrich and his team would always give to us. either vote for this bill or we all go up in flames. no, actually, we can vote against this bill and then it goes back to committee. we watch schoolhouse rock and we understand how this system plays. we will just go back to the committee and this time we will do it right. isn t that the feeling that a lot of republicans on the hill
welcome back to morning joe. on a friday morning, by popular demand, steve rattner has his charts. we are talking about the cost for americans under the american health care plan. one reason tom may not be trump s friend on health care because of every passing day you see new analyses how this is tough for certain kinds of americans. take a look at the newer studies. this shows you the average loss of tax credits under the trump plan would be about 2200 dollars which feeds into an increase in premiums of about $2,400 as well as increase in out-of-pocket costs for copays and deductibles and things like that. you would see an increase in the cost of your health care and not what the white house is saying is going to happen. this was the argument against obamacare? exactly. the premiums are going up and costs too much? exactly. because you re taking a trillion
place where the insurance companies can offer these skinny packages and allow them to say there are still people on insurance. do you think that is part of their strategy? it is. when you talk to members of the freedom caucus, when they want to strip these essential health benefits and what insurance companies have to provide they say they will replace these elements of the affordable care act with conservative provisions, but many moderates and just rank in file regular republicans in the house, gop, are uncomfortable with the way the freedom caucus is pursuing some of this, believe that the current law will become too thread bare in what it requires insurance companies to do. bob woodward, internally, within the house, i mean, you ve been in washington a long, long time. have you ever seen an internal struggle within one party over such a major piece of legislation that affects so many people in this country run amuck the way this has? well, it seems to have. you go back to the