Missiles are not used to bomb runways. Officials say the strike seen here from the two u. S. Navy destroyers was meant to sent a message to the assad regime and its allies. A russian drone was seen over the hospital where victims of the chemical attack were taken. On a lighter note, the fox news learned the skipper of one of the warships that launched missiles at that syrian airfield is a graduate of the u. S. Naval academy. The u. S. Ambassador to the United Nations would not rule out more strikes from the commanders ship. We are prepared to do more. But we hope that will not be necessary. Reporter im told one of those warships in the Eastern Mediterranean is steaming toward an undisclosed location where the ship will rearm. Kelly the u. S. Taking a closer look at the relationship between syria and russia. Nikki haley telling a special u. N. Session that syria was able to carry out the brutal chemical attack because of russias support. Assad did this because he those could get away wi
i know this is part of it. and that is if we get them to pay their fair share and stop free loading the drug companies can lower prices for the american patient which is what we want. so that s part of it. i think association healthcare, i think your viewers need to know is allowing people to pool together of like mind or like industry and you improving your buying power and leverage and you get lower prices. rick: how much cooperation does the president need from drug companies to make this happen? well, i think when you bring the drug companies in, i ve talked to them as well and say listen, if you get other countries around the world to start paying their fair share we no doubt will lower our prices in america. they made that commitment. i ve heard them say it privately and i think they ll say it publicly. this is patients and driving down the cost of care and open up waivers for state. in wisconsin where we had healthcare that worked. a high-risk pool that helped take care of t
prior to. that s about a half. so they cut premiums in half to two-thirds by instituting an invisible high-risk right. right. which is a great invisible high-risk pool. two things. one, they put an assessment on. like 4 bucks per person. and two, they have a different demographic p demographic perspective. that s why susan colorado i believe so, one of the senators from maine, said the money you re putting into the senate bills right now to try to affect what they did in maine is not nearly enough. well need much, much more money. it s very expensive to do a high-risk pool. this shows it works. we had high-risk pool in wisconsin, worked very well. we can work on the details of that. the point being, what obamacare did is forced a small percentage, about 5 to 6% of the american population to bear that full that disproportion of costs. covering people with high cost, preexisting conditions. what i m saying is spread it out over everybody. yeah, do an assessment. premium
mentioned, the essential health benefits. let s see if we can show people what they are. these are the things that every obamacare policy had to have. let me put it this way, every insurance policy after obamacare was had to have these things. senator ted cruz has a plan that you can offer something that doesn t cover these. we re creating two tiers of insurance and putting the people who most need it into a big high risk pool. the end result is their premiums will skyrocket, while some people will buy policies for 10 bucks a month or something. why is going to be so hard to get this through? specifically medicaid. those massive cuts to medicaid are still in this bill. when republicans go home and don t want to face those town halls, it is because millions of americans now rely on getting their health care through medicaid and the medicaid
medicaid is possibly one of the closest ways in which america gets to a universal healthcare system. but i want to go to the cruz amendment, the idea that bare bones shurps policies that doesn t cover essential health benefits are going to be sold. which means in theory, and i m making the number up, somebody could sell you or me an insurance policy for 10, 20, 50, hundred dollar bucks a month with very little coverage. and that s what healthy people will buy, which means the sick people will be in what is essentially what was before obamacare a high-risk pool or uninsurable. right. and even one more point on that is that the premium kind of tax credits that we talk about, in this version of the bill you will actually be able to use premium tax credits to pay for those catastrophic plans that do not coverage essential hell benefits. so, i mean, think about that. it s exactly set up first of all, the tax credits aren t that