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Reporter very rich, but not very punctual. Jeanne moos, cnn, new york. Thank you so much for joining us. Ac 360 with anderson starts right now. Good evening. Thanks for joining us. Breaking news tonight in the russia investigation. New reporting how interested the fbi seems to be in carter page. The story detailing how many times page has been questioned already, what hes been asked about and told investigators. Page himself, calling the encounters extensive. In a moment, the correspondent who broke the story. But we begin with the Health Care Replacement billion. 22 million fewer people with insurance by 2026. That, according to the congressional budget office. Also big Deficit Reduction. However, its that 22 million estimate that could be politically toxic to some republican moderates, one of
whom weighed in late tonight. So a lot to get to, starting with phil m ....
well certainly the process was pretty ugly process, you ll get no argument from me. the problem is that you know in terms of the fantasy that going to be some kind of a bipartisan solution. i mean here s the problem. there s not a single democrat in the house and senate that wants to repeal anything in obamacare. they don t want to get rid of the tax increases, they don t want to get rid of the individual mandate, they don t want to get rid of the employer mandate. they don t want to change the way medicaid works. what they want to do is enshrine obamacare into the law. so that we can never get rid of it. so i don t see any possibility, i wish there were, where democrats say okay even after hearing mccain, who made that impassioned plea that said there ought to be a bipartisan solution yeah. then hearing from chum schumer, hearing from charlie dent, the list goes on where there does seem to be a consensus. that there can be some ....
Medicaid. one thing that we are viewing this bill through the prism of, we re taking away, but maybe we ought to view it through the prism of we overextended ourselves and promised something we can t afford and now we re having to do reforms to bring it in alignment of what we can deliver. another issue is this. under the current medicaid system, you get more reimbersment for covering able bodied people than disabled people. under the way medicaid works, it is disadvantaging people who have disabilities in favor of people on the reimbursement rates that are able bodied. some reform is necessary to save medicaid for the people who actually need it the most. he did say there would be no more cuts, and we re talking over $700 billion. go ahead, van. i agree that there are all kinds of ways to improve our system. but play thing fuzzy math where we re spending a whole bunch of ....
Billion, so, there s more spending on medicaid. one thing that we re viewing this bill through the prism of is, we re cutting, we re taking away. but maybe we ought to be viewing this through the prism of, we overextended ourselves, we promised something that we can t afford and now we re having to do reforms to bring it in alignment with what we can actually deliver. another issue we re not talking about inside of medicaid is this. under the current medicaid system, you get more reimbursement for covering able-bodied people than you do for disabled people. one thing is true right now, under the way medicaid works, it is disadvantaging people who have disabilities in favor of people who are able-bodied. some reform is necessary to save medicaid for the people who actually need it the most. yeah, but he did say there would be no cuts and we re talking about $700 million of cuts. van, go ahead. well, i agree look, i agree that there are all kinds of ways we can improve our system ....
Ap democrats that get behind the telemedicine that could lower the cost of care and increase the quality of care without making massive changes to way that medicare or medicaid works. take is inside what you re hearing from members of the republican party, of the republicans that want to see progress on health care. what happens if members of congress, if senators go back to their home districts without getting anything significant done? i mean how much urgency is there to make sure they can show some progress, can tell votes hey, we re trying to carry out the promises that we made to you. well what we re seeing here from the people i have spoken to on the senate side, they know they ll end up passing some sort of a bill that s different from the house version of the bill. by july 4th, you think? are they saying by july 4th? i would say closer to bastille day. they want to be able to say ....