his supporters say is false. and now this failed attempt at passing health care. what is happening? and have you seen other administrations have this rockiest start? no. if you go back to the passage of obamacare in the first obama term, the negotiation was between the democrats in the senate and the democrats in the house, and they came up with a compromise. now the negotiation is between republicans in the house who are saying no, and those who are saying yes. if you go back to trump s old days when he used to build buildings, he knew that you have to agree on what the foundation is. it s going to be 400 feet by 300 feet. now they are debating what the
know, kind of stripping obamacare of some of the most popular elements and not enough to, you know, actually look at cost control and actually free market reforms that would help improve coverage. yeah. elise, that is the important thing. no free market reforms here. the conservatives, real conservatives could be excited about, that heritage would be excited about, that the freedom caucus would be excited about, that americans for prosperity would be. why does a conservative put their political careen e line getting behind this bad bill you owlast night, the cbo numbers, steve rattner, comes out and it ends up we don t know the exact numbers but the guesses are the changes will not improve coverage but will actually make the deficit go up even higher. take us behind the cbo numbers. it looks on bleak there too. well, as you know in the cbo report originally came out they said it would improve the deficit 337 billion. now they are saying it s 150
are feeling right now? it s a long, long way from passage of a bill in the house to getting the kind of market on the other hand patient centered health care that republicans say they want to use to replace the affordable care act. and most of these members are not afraid of the consequences of voting no. as you suggested, they are more inclined both ideologically to vote most. punctuated with a exclamation point with the president saying today is the day is if you don t vote for this bill today, you re going to keep the affordable care act. i don t think there is any doubt that while committees will try to do smaller things on health care, the president is going to move on to tax reform and a lot of republicans are goung ing to why say we had a plan to change this and in our first big effort, rush through, we
you still are a hard supporter on this. not a promise kept but good policy and gives every american who wants health care coverage the ability to purchase it so you re talking there about access. are you confident that bill will make it allow through the house of representatives today? i m not totally conversation. we had a great conference last night and a lot of enthusiasm. this is very close. as it should have been. this bill has been debated hard. not just a short period of time but years now. there have been changes and tweaks made at the very end for some people who need the votes. but let me explain in my district what has happened. with the aca, i m a physician, i practiced 31 years before i came to washington, d.c. but a third of the counties in my district have no option next year to purchase insurance. 160,000 people from tennessee paid a fine becse it was not affordable for them. the third largest county in my state there are no options to
make it affordable. the data actually shows it s not going to decrease their premiums. what do you say to the trump voter who will be disproportionately impacted by the passage of this legislation? i don t think it s goin to be negatively impacted. the cbo look and fill out forms and make projects. remember, their projections in 2010 were 20 million would have health insurance on the exchange and the actual number is 10 million and half of those had insurance, including me, and i now have obamacare. that s what i have right now. i can pay the out-of-pocket and copay, not a problem for me. but for other people, it is. i think we have to make the plans more affordable and i whathey want to will le to buy absolutely do that. look. we have, in medicaid reform, we haven t talked about that, but that is a huge issue here and we have now first class people in this country. i took care of many of my friend back home for getting second