donald trump would say, more mean than the house bill. it actually cuts the medicaid program more deeply. it takes a little time to get there, but it cuts the program more deeply than even the house bill. and just to say what that means, that means the most vulnerable americans children, seniors, people with disabilities are going to face getting shoved off health care, losing health care. women who are pregnant losing health care in order to pay for a massive tax cut for the wealthy. it is an upside down bill, and i hope republicans of good will will actually reject it because it is so wrong and immoral. adam, with your experience watching legislation move through the senate, being right there on the floor with it, what s your assessment of where this stands right now in terms of republican votes? well, as you mentioned, there were four republican senators who came out today and said they were not for it, which puts mcconnell, you know, a few votes
worry, republican senators saying, don t worry. this bill will be totally different from the house. it will be much nicer than the house. it will be more generous than the house. it will be a real health care bill. this bill is actually in fundamental ways more cruel, more mean as trump would say, donald trump would say, more mean than the house bill. it actually cuts the medicaid program more deeply. it takes a little time to get there, but it cuts the program more deeply than even the house bill. and just to say what that means, that means the most vulnerable americans children, seniors, people with disabilities are going to face getting shoved off health care, losing health care. women who are pregnant losing health care in order to pay for a massive tax cut for the wealthy. it is an upside down bill, and i hope republicans of good will will actually reject it because it is so wrong and immoral.
the house when it comes to these things always puts out the conservative bill and you know the senate will bring it back. what the house did is they started out in the middle. if you re a conservative you re thinking this is the best we re going do. that s why they re not voting for it. they know when it goes to the senate it will get worse. the house has to come out and set the pole saying this is the conservative bill. and they didn t do that. and that s the problem. neera? i can t even explain this bill. it doesn t seem too conservative or too liberal, it s an upside down bill. it charges people who need the most help the most. if you make $20,000 a year, you re 50 years old and you live in a rural community you have an eight-fold increase in costs. that s why doctors, nurses, the ama, hospitals are all opposing this bill. you have club for growth and the
doctors and the aarp all opposing this bill because it s an upside down bill. it makes so little sense. it doesn t lower cost. it makes it more unsustainable, the medicare trust fund. so it s uniting. it s not liberals versus conservatives on this bill it s the broad spectrum of americans opposing this bill and that s why it doesn t make sense to rush this process through. we took six months in the house to have hearings in the house. this bill is supposed to be introduced and voted on in three and a half weeks. one-sixth of the economy. three and a half weeks. a group backed by house speaker paul ryan, the american action network, is out with television ads pressuring members of the freedom caucus, your group, to vote with president trump on health care, take a listen. repeal and replace obamacare. tell congressman labrador to vote with president trump. do you think those ads will