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Participate, put back in place kind of risk pooling and protections. that would be a very good way to go forward. most of the consumers, over 80% of consumers who signed up in 2017 actually paid no increase in premiums because there s subsidies increase with the premiums, but there are still some people who can t afford the coverage in the new marketplace. providing, again, some additional help, that would be a good thing. i think what s really dangerous that is part of the republican agenda is blowing up the 50-year-old federal-state partnership around medicaid. nothing to do with obama care in the expanded medicaid population, but the proposal on the floor of the house that was pulled yesterday would have taken almost $900 billion in federal funding away from the most vulnerable citizens in this country. ....
Goes to a conference committee. this is the legislative process. that s why i keep asking folks, you and your colleagues and folks on the hill, it s important to concentrate on the folks affected by that. that s the patients and moms and dads across this land who aren t able to gain the kind of care they need with the current system on the exchange. you have governors across this nation who tell us they aren t able to care for their medicaid population, their full neshl population in the way they see fit because of all the rules and regulations. that s where we re going to concentrate our efforts, on positive solutions to make certain we move in the direction of patient-centered health care, not washington centered health care. dr. price, as i said, the popularity of obamacare has ticked up recently. here is the latest fox news poll. it shows more people like it than dislike it. this is just from this month. 50% give it a favorable opinion. 47% give it an unfavorable opinion. given t ....
Health care. we have integrate physical and mental health and makes no sense to divide those. we have emphasized preventive care and now we have coaches to help you improve your weight, your activities, your use of alcohol, and these preventive cares have allowed us to drive down the cost of care. i mentioned this before. we have gone from a 16% inflation rate down to a 6% statewide. this is maegs amazinamazing. 2% inflation rate in our medicaid population. what we have shown if you bring a dose of innovation to the system, you can get better outcomes at reduced costs and washington can show you how to do that. i know you have to run. i used to play basketball with harold ford. especially he is not here to defend himself, what kind of player was he? as we talked about, as long as you have two balls, one for harold and one for everybody else, then you re fine. just bring an extra ball. good defender too, was he? he does the wave defense. ....
Think anyone can but i can tell you in a district like mine, rural appalachia where the average income is just a little over $30,000 a year, the preponderance of the people come from my rural district. the estimates if you aggravate the county numbers, it s 60,000 people at least. here s my question to you, there s no way the cbo can score this bill as cutting $880 billion from medicaid over ten years and for no one in your district to take it on the chin. well, i tell you what they can t do, either, you know, that s the same cbo, chris, that said that 20 million people were going to sign up for the exchanges and they haven t so i don t think i think we have to take with a grain of salt what cbo says. but what we re going to do, chris, is we re going to give governor john kasich the flexibility and the controls to manage his medicaid population. we re not going to pull the rug out congressman, there s going to be less money spent in your state on medicaid. that s an arithmeti ....
Governor john kasich the flexibility and the controls to manage his medicaid population. we re not going to pull the rug out congressman, there s going to be less money spent in your state on medicaid. that s an arithmetic inescapable fact. don t take it from me, paul ryan the speaker of the house was on hugh hewitt show in which he boasted about a fact, about capping the growth of it, reducing the spending and called it bigger than welfare reform. there is no way under this bill that as much money in medicaid is going to be spent in the state of ohio tin years from now as it is now. that s going to hurt people in your district. chris, if we don t do something to reform medicaid, to make sure it s sustainable, what s going to happen by 2026 when the cbo tells us it will cost our nation a trillion a year. it s better to give these people an opportunity to purchase health care they can afford that s of their own choosing, not something that s mandated and handed out. let s don t fo ....