likely track close to the house passed bill. the moving parts are pretty well defined by reconciliation process. do i wish we had 60 votes and we could do something in the senate like they did? of course i do. they ended with reconciliation. we ll be beginning with it. this is beginning of this process. not the end. so we know what the moving parts are. something with taxes, something with mandates, something with medicaid expansion. all. those will be part of the senate bill when it is released tomorrow. here s my question to you. i want to put aside the exchanges. there are problems, they re very clear. those are facts on the ground in many places. let s take it out of the equation. you can t. the two big parts you can though for this reason. to get back to your point about the budgetary implications, there are two big moving parts. the taxt cuts that will happen
and i think it is a cut because a lot less people will be getting medicaid benefits. one of the key numbers from the last cbo report is that 14 million americans will no long he have medicaid. if you want to know about the cut, who is covered under the program. with the big changes being proposed in the house bill, it sounds like it will be quite similar in the senate bill, you can t cover the same number of people. it is true that clinton did endorse a per capita method like representative burgess was talking about, but one of the things is how quickly you growal of money for each person. and under the republican bill, it is a very small amount that states would be getting for each medicaid enrollee. the politics of this are in flux. what is your sense of how this will play out? it seems it is the riskiest part of whole process. we definitely have senate republican in addition position
can i say a couple things? first, it is good to be on with you again. it has been a little while since we ve had a chance to converse on things. the other thing i need to say, it is a week after the terrible shooting at the baseball practice. i don t know if steve scalise watches your show but i know his condition was upgraded to fair west miss you, steve, if you re watching, speedy recovery and we ll see you back here in the halls of congress. we all say things from time to time. i don t know that that was particularly helpful on the part of the senator before when the house was working on their bill. i would not expect it would be helpful for me to behave in the same way so i probably won t do that. there s been a lot made through the process. continuing situational hypocrisy is part of work you ve chosen. i used to be a student of
particularly helpful on the part of the senator before when the house was working on their bill. i would not expect it would be helpful for me to behave in the same way so i probably won t do that. there s been a lot made through the process. continuing situational hypocrisy is part of work you ve chosen. i used to be a student of medical irony a long time ago. i ve branched put into legislative irony. so i have the full gamut. i want to play this on the obama process. it was a year into it. take a listen. the white house has no interest in being transparent in this process because they have so much to hide about this bill. we probably have a day or two to look at the shell bill. a day or two to look at the phantom bill and no time see what s in the real reconciliation bill.
you were objecting to the way the process came together at the end. wasn t reconciliation process. it was the way the senate passed bill had come back to the house, where we could have no input. if anything changed, as you recall, if anything changes, it has to go back to the senate. they lost the senate seat along the way. he couldn t do anything else. everyone knew what it was. right now, as you and i are speaking can i can i correct you? that people do know. we ve had a reconciliation bill in the process for over two years time. everyone knows what the moving parts are. congressman, almostfully, i do not have in front of me, i do not have legislative language. and there are lobbyist who s do. we read the bill in the commerce committee if you were watching. i ll talk the senate legislation that you voted on in a week. what you heard from the previous guest is that it will