going to be able to see the future king, the brand-new baby. in the meantime, they really are as ma tern its wards go gin the lap of luxury. yesterday i talked to a mom who delivered both of her children in lindo. here is what she told me about what it s like in there. when you walk in there it s like walking into a very five-star hotel. quite posh? absolutely. security guards on the door. very important people rushing around looking after you. and the room that you go into, again, you have your own bed with a duvet rather than the ordinary sheets and blankets. it has curtains and a television and fridge and freezer and bathroom and your hand soaps and bathrooms and towels. it is great and it s luxury. when i had mine, my consultant said you can go home now. i said, you know what? can i say an extra couple of nights? i didn t want to leave.
back and making less than men? well, it s working in a lot of different ways. in the first place, of course, there is outright discrimination. when you attach a woman s name and a man s name to the same job application, she is less likely to be hired. and if she is hired she is offered a lower starting salary. so another part of it is that we have been socialized, that it s rude for women to negotiate. and in fact we do get penalized when we negotiate. it s sort of a double bind. we don t ask for higher salaries so we start at lower salary, and that mounts over the years because promotions are based on your salary. but if we ask for higher salaries sometimes we re not hired at all because we re seen as pushy. in a man it s assertive and in a woman it s, you know, bitchy. one of the big factors is america has few systems to help women stay in the workforce when they have kids. we don t have job-protected ma tern tif leave, subsidized
in room why obamacare has to go. despite all the promises made, despite the tireless work of everyone in this room to stop it so many years ago, obamacare has allowed taxpayer money to be use to purchase health insurance that covers abortion, among all its other failings. tomorrow we begin the end of obamacare once and for all. the new bill also allows states to opt out of the requirement to cover a ma tern care, health coverage and hospitalization. there s still plenty of opposition, including groups like aarp. joining us right now, co-author of politico playbook, daniel t littman. they re going to say a previous version of the bill was scored recently by cbo. i think democrats will raise the red flag that why not wait a few days, get the final cbo score on this massive piece of legislation that is going to