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To what the house is. from my perspective, the bill needs a lot more than tweaking or tinkering around the edges. it needs some major overhauls so that they no longer would have 22 million people losing their insurance, sweeping cuts and the medicaid program which helps our most vulnerable citizens. so fundamentally, i ve been trying to get to the bottom of this. a lot of democrats don t want to work with republicans because they say they re obsessed with repealing obamacare. but fundamentally, the issue is there will be 22 or 23 million people, whichever bill you look at, by 2026, who wouldn t have insurance compared with obamacare. and insurance premiums will be up by less than they would be by obamacare. but i ve been hearing premiums will be down. that s misinformation. by 2026, they would have gone up by 5.5% a year. ....
Closed, closed meetings, can they come up with a solution that you think will fix this enough to win your support or do they need to really do it over and bring democrats into the conversation? from my perspective the bill needs a lot more than tweaking or tinkering around the edges, it needs some major overhauls so that we no longer would have 22 million people losing their insurance, sweeping cuts in the medicaid program which helps our most vulnerable citizens in our rural hospitals, nursing homes and home health agencies and we need to also to focus on the cost of not only premiums but deductibles for lower income people. so from my perspective we need a major overhaul. we have had several meetings this week, we are going to have another one today and i haven t hesitated to speak up and give ....
It s happening but it s happening slowly. democrats are not inclined to help unless it s on their terms on issues like health care. i don t think that the republicans can do this themselves. i don t think they should be doing it by themselves. i think we should be working in a bipartisan way on this very, very important issue to everybody. with congress slow to put points on the port on major overhauls there is concern about republicans seeking reelection in 2018. vice-president mike pence will criss-cross states to help republicans who are supporting the agenda. if congress were seeking to do all of health care form, a complete repeal or replace it would require 60 votes. ....
Happening slowly. democrats are not inclined to help unless it s on their terms on issues like health care. i don t think that the republicans can do this themselves. i don t think they should be doing it by themselves. i think we should be working in a bipartisan way on this very, very important issue to everybody. with congress slow to put points on the port on major overhauls there is concern about republicans seeking reelection in 2018. vice-president mike pence will criss-cross states to help republicans who are supporting the agenda. if congress were seeking to do all of health care form, a complete repeal or replace it would require 60 votes. ....
Social security and medicare, despite the fact that they face major financing challenges. that means there is a huge amount of pressure on a very small sliver of the budget. the areas where we have public investments and programs for kids and welfare programs. and, yes, many of these things there are savings to be found, there are overhauls, but you can t balance the budget from that small a piece of the budget. so we need to not take things off of the table when figuring out how to get to balance or bring our debt down. we need to look at this much more comprehensively because you cannot focus on these tiny slivers of the budget and come up with a real fix. not touching medicare and addressing solvency of social security is exactly what alan simpson s issues were with this budget proposal. we ve got to take a break. thank you so much, maya. you guys are sticking around. next, much more on the russia investigation. a friend of jim comey speaking out and saying the former fbi direct ....