co-pays. we need to stabilize the individual market place and that s big to the democrats. jon: what does it take to stabilize the individual marketplace? there s a think on cost-sharing reductions, the president is saying that it s a helpful thing and saying we re going to pull off those reductions, if that happens, the whole thing collapses. jon: is that propping it up? yes, it is. when you have an insurance company, one of the big things behind the affordable care act in the first place was you want to have as many people injured as possible, especially healthy people, healthy, young people, because that helps balance the costs for the insurance industry so the sick people in the healthy are together in the marketplace helps to balance all the costs. we think that by propping up
look, i think in this case, i think charlie is absolutely right. the republicans are in their own quagmire. and unlike with the passage of the affordable care act in the first place when president obama was very invested in the policy itself a part of putting it together, the president in this case doesn t really care what passes. he has shown no you know, favoritism for one plan or another. he just wants to win. he just wants to put something in the win column and call it a success without really thinking about how it will impact people. and meanwhile, we re having one measure after another with predictions that millions of people will lose health coverage and premiums will still go up. but meanwhile, have you people like john mccain like a group of governors today bipartisan governors including charlie baker from massachusetts where my paper is, calling for people to say look, enough. let s come together. let s nick skinny repeal and all these other plans.
process has been so dysif you thinkal. this is reckless because basically what it does is it will force the existing exchanges should this become law into a death spiral. the republicans will own it. it is almost literally politically suicide dal. it s an example of their desperation to get a win no matter what. i think at this point, people like john mccain have to be as good as their word, return to regular order, some sort of rational form of legislating. he can make that han by vogt against this later this week. kim, what republican superior is this president going to be able to count on be? look, i think in this case, i think charlie is absolutely right. the republicans are in their own quagmire. and unlike with the passage of the affordable care act in the first place when president obama was very invested in the policy itself a part of putting it together, the president in this
desperation to get a win no matter what. i think at this point, people like john mccain have to be as good as their word, return to regular order, some sort of rational form of legislating. he can make that han by vogt against this later this week. kim, what republican superior is this president going to be able to count on be? look, i think in this case, i think charlie is absolutely right. the republicans are in their own quagmire. and unlike with the passage of the affordable care act in the first place when president obama was very invested in the policy itself a part of putting it together, the president in this case doesn t really care what passes. he has shown no you know, favoritism for one plan or another. he just wants to win. he just wants to put something in the win column and call it a success without really thinking
in terms of pleasing their constituents and rushing something through that s unpopular. arthel: if they step back, even if in trump loses the healthcare battle, his presidency is young. president trump stands to win some major political victories. he won t face a do-nothing congress for the next 7 1/2 years. let s remember the presidency is only 6 months old. it s still early in the presidency. it took a lot longer to pass the affordable care act in the first place. i think there is a lot of time to win on some of these other issues. a lot of republicans want to get started on infrastructure. in terms of healthcare if it doesn t get done before the august recess. i don t think that s necessarily a loss for republicans if they are able to couple with a plan that s more popular that fixes a