the majority of republican gofshs nor are against it. steve is doing an admirable job of not talking about the bill. the reason he is doing that nobody is excite bed the bill. it is a healthcare bill that causes fewer people to have healthcare. that seems like a really bad idea. why do you say fewer people will have healthcare? you turn this money over to the states and they will find ways to provide coverage? why would texas, florida or other states drop people from health insurance? because it s a fact. everybody knows it s a fact. the reason the cbo the reason they ll try to act among any other reasons on this before the cbo comes out with the full report, which as you said would include coverage, is because they know that it is going to be really bad news for the bill. what they learned from this last debacle on trump care was not that you should cover more people or be more generous and more compassionate, you should employ for secrecy. they ll try to move faster through t
the state an governors. ten governors, five democrats, five republicans opposed the trump care to so called graham cassidy bill and more in favor of a bipartisan negotiation such as that that senator alexander and senator murray are going forward with. second, i just heard our republican colleagues speak. there was a word missing. people. patients. care. all this stuff democrat, republican, governors, washington. how about how this affects the people? millions will lose coverage. no guarantee of preexisting conditions. and an end to medicade as we know it. tens of millions of people could well lose coverage. people who desperately need essential services would lose it. our republican colleagues don t
president, the party, the blame and the tweets. do you know why they re going back at it and do you think they have a better chance this time in. the issue of repealing health care is kind of like the zombie apocalypse for the republicans. it won t die. they remain worried about a sliver of the republican base that may give them trouble when primary time comes around. the overall numbers are the same when polls come out about this version of trump care. it will be at a 17%, 20% approval rating. they re worried about a small segment of trump loyalists and the republican party that may come after them if they don t pass this. it s all about politics, nothing to do with policy. and the end result is a lot of people are going to get hurt and die if this bill passes. turning to russia while i have you, new reports that paul manafort may be a target of the mueller investigation, this is to say he could face few chaur indictment and he was wire tapped with his contact with
will hate this bill so they re trying to rush it through in the dark of night. we want, above all, a bill that protects average americans, not slashes the healthcare they need, whether the governor or washington should try to do that it s wrong. we want to work in a bipartisan process to make things better. we want the house, the president, republican leadership, to stop pressuring those who want to come up with a bipartisan solution to refrain from doing it. we can make this work in a bipartisan way. the final thing i say is this. we have seen some very very hopeful sprouts of bipartisanship in the last month. going back to this trump care 2, graham cassidy, would shut down that bipartisanship that
you re a republican or a democrat or something else, we all agree on that, right? i mean, we do. then republican senator ben cassidy pledged to uphold a kimmel test about niz health care bill he would support. now many analysts say that cassidy s bill doesn t come close to passing that test and late today jimmy kimmel tweeting this song writing, i ll give our thoughts on the grahamcassidy health care bill. i m joined by senator chris murphy, a member of the relevant committee speaking out on this all over the place. thanks for making time on a busy day. in your view, does this fail the kimmel test and thus is senator cassidy going back on his word? this is a big fat f. this fails the kimmel test worse than any other version of trumpcare. and the irony of this is that the reason that bill cassidy was on that show is because he