what is the bottom line on better days ahead for health care? look, this bill has been ground up. we ve been watching it in real time, ground up in the collision between the gop s historic ideology and its modern coalition so on the one hand you have the voices on the right, mike leigh, rand paul saying it doesn t go far enough in uprooting obamacare and a larger group of moderates and main stream conservatives who say look we are taking away coverage largely from people who vote for us. look at the numbers the urban institute on who lost coverage under the senate health care bill, 80% don t have a college degree, 70% in a household where someone works full time and 60% of them are white. who does that describe? that describes the modern trump coalition. there is no way around that conundrum for the republicans. where does that leave them, ron? what is next? we heard m.j. and everybody describe a repeal and delay strategy, we ve heard that s one option. right. we ve also heard
further in that direction and the estimates have been consistent from cbo and others that if you are younger and healthier this will reduce your initial premiums and for older people it will substantially increase your premiums and it s likely that if the premiums are lower the out of pocket expenses will be higher. in essence what we re talking about is rolling back the degree to which the insurance is comprehensive and that does allow me to bring down premiums on younger, healthier people but the debate so far has been from the right saying this done go far enough fast enough in uprooting obamacare. coming in and saying it s 24 million fewer people with coverage and you re back to the preobamacare levels of uninsurance. that has to give pause to people on the other side of the republican party. so the question of which plan is better can only be answered by how rich or poor you are. how old or young you are. and part of the big sell here in phase 2 and 3 that we haven t