take that. i m a reaganite. i worked with jude and art and jack kemp before reagan was a supply sider. if i can get 80% this year by thanksgiving, take it. frankly economic growth will make the wealthy wealthier. they don t need a tax cut if the economy grows. we can go from the terrible obamacare growth rate to 3 or 4% growth rate. the wealthy will be just fine. newt, thanks for seeing me again. thanks much. optimism that everything will be okay for those legislative goals. the nasdaq, s&p 500, russell 2000 all closing at record levels. the dow not but up appreciably just the same. more after this including fall-out from the jeff sessions comments. if you re being publicly humiliated whether justified or not, at what point do you cease
first patient when i came into the office is a child with a brain tumor. her mom, who is a nail shop worker, had been able to get health care insurance for her children because of the affordable care act. and we looked at each other that day and just knew that it was going to affect her daughter s health and well-being for the next years. we did not realize how quick that how quickly that was going to take place. but these are the people, these are the working families that are going to be affected by the cuts that are going to be implemented if this bill passes. and these are not people who are too lazy or too they are working people, working families and their children. so that s one example. given my family s background, my
is wonderful about the republican plan. the only thing you hear is how terrible obamacare is, and it s all about the media. the point is that this debate does not seem to be about what it will mean for health care. what will it mean for the care of individuals and patients, rural hospitals. this all seems to be getting a win for the republicans and getting those huge tax cuts. that s got to be concerning to people on both sides of the aisle. it s also being debated and both sides are pushing for a win right now. then we have that roundtable that stephanie had conducted. you heard from five doctors. what did you take away from that? they re closer to the ground there, charlie. well, that was one of the few discussions i ve seen substantively about health care. because this has been done so quickly and so much in secrecy,
opioid crisis. you have a number of about 100,000 found access through medicaid. you re lose some $20 million in federal funds in fiscal 2021 alone. what this were means if enacted as-is. what would happen to those people? the $20 million you re referring to really effects the expanded medicaid program. one thing people have to realize, one of the problems with the bill, reforming obamacare, which has to happen. obamacare famed, i think that those horses are out of the barn. the cost implications. obamacare does not work. it has to be reformed and why what the senate is doing is commendable. the challenges we have, it s looking at traditional medicaid entitlement reform. again, a viable dofrconversatio
have but they re putting the two together and that s compounding the problem, if you will, and trying to force what should be a long and lengthy and involved discussion into a very short time frame. one of our arguments is, separate the two issues. look at if you re going to reform obamacare, look at obamacare reform for what it is and what it needs to do and take traditional entitlement as a separate piece. on the best-case scenario, $1.5 billion over ten years. cpi increased by a point or two, looking at yore billion or 2 billion to a small state like new hampshire is not practical and we need to be on the forefront. my job at governor, advocate for the people of new hampshire, that we have services, not putting people off services or pushed into a situation that drives us to taxes. i ll never let that happen as governor and making sure they understand the implications to a small state like new hampshire.