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Least for the next two years what this compromise lamar alexander and patty murray legislation is all about. reporter: that s right, they do not have the votes. the republicans do not have the votes on their side of the senate or they would have passed it and moved it through. we, of course, know the house supported this version of health care, the senate did not. but by the president saying that he supported this short-term deal in principle between democrats and republicans, it s certainly a sign that he wants to move forward with this. he wants to get something done in health care. but wolf, it s so interesting here, he say os obamacare is dead, it s not coming back. the reality and worry here among the president s advisers is he will own the collapse of health care. that s something he s not eager to own in its entirety. he s blaming it on the predecessor, the obamacare legislature, but the reality is he and the republicans control ....
The one who is taking on the insurance companies. the stuff just doesn t add up yet. what is your analysis? let s not forget what the strategy was behind ending the payments last week. and they were pretty transparent about this. he talked about it being a bailout for the insurance companies, but he also said i m going to end these payments. and then the democrats have to come to me and cut a deal. to improve health care because obamacare will fail. now it seems like he s agreed to continue the payments for another two years. if he thought that democrats had any incentive to cut that kind of deal with him, it would be gone now because the payments are going to continue. and it s not totally clear to me either whether he s on the same page with a lot of senior administration officials we have talked to in the last few days, weeks leading up to the announcement to cut off the payments, they have said in order to continue the payments, we ll need to get something. that s either going ....
The funding and the money for obamacare. senator schumer referred to that as well. the regulatory piece of this is crucial for republican support. and what senator alexander was essentially to get out of the deal, at least as it has been read to me out to this point, the regulatory waivers allowed under obamacare would be allowed to be sped up, they wouldn t have to be approved by state legislature, just a governor would be able to do them, if another state had gotten a waiver related to exchanges or how they could change the exchange to make it easier for individuals to apply to that exchange or to get coverage, they would be able to simply get waivers approved. the speed to get the waivers approved and the types to get approved are important here. and there is an expansion of people s ability to get catastrophic plans based on this deal. those are the components that will make or break this deal. because this deal now needs to be sold to republicans. i m told that what they don t hav ....
Evaluated it, and i think we are doing good work there. and it can and it must be upgraded, enhanced. thank you to the prime minister. he said, this is so beautiful. and i said, this is the rose garden. and i think even the media likes the rose garden. that s hard to believe, but even the media likes it. mr. prime minister, it s been a great honor having you, and we look forward to many, many years of friendship, working together, and keep up the good work. thank you very much. thank you very much. [ applause ] the president of the united states and the prime minister of greece wrapping up a press conference at the rose garden at the white house. as they wrapped up, we just got word that there is a deal in principle that will allow the obamacare health care subsidize to insurance companies to continue. the chairman of the house ....
Patty murray have put forward, namely to continue the subsidize for the next two years. i suppose he would like the credit for sticking it to the insurance companyies see yeah executive order and to dismantle obamacare. in his mind obamacare is dead because of the executive actions he took because republicans couldn t get it done on capitol hill. but there s a striking thing about this that gets into health care policy, which no matter how you slice it, if you want universal health care, insurance companies have to get it taken care of. that s what the obama team understood. one way or the other, they have to get taken care of because they have to extend coverage to more people than they would rather not give coverage to, they have to give it to everybody, and they only do that if young and healthy people take up insurance, buy insurance to drive up profits to give it to people with pre-existing conditions. and trump, even through block grants, wants pre-existing conditions to be tak ....