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Is next week while the congress is on its fourth of july break, the senate will send the congressional budget office a couple versions of the health care repeal and replace bill. the president this morning throwing everything open to a new idea. if republican senators are unable to pass what they re working on now, they should immediately repeal and replace at a later date. this is a nod to rand paul who said this on fox news yesterday. what about dividing the bill in two? do the repeal which no democrat will vote for, repeal the taxes, repeal the regulations, reform ....
To use an emergency room other than going to the states that had medicaid expansion. and the opioid epidemic can also be linked to the overuse of medicaid. 15% of medicaid patients have a substance abuse problem. anyway, it s enabling the opioid academic. jon: is that medicaid essentially on a growth pattern right now that is unsustainable? no, first of all, this is in a bill that does anything to reform medicaid. generally speaking, democrats will want to talk about improving coverage and it will probably be generally wanting to talk about how to control costs. they are both doable goals. the problem with this bill as it doesn t do it either. it takes 22 million people and adds them to the roles and on the other problem is it increases costs. for a person who is buying a silver plan today under ....
Knew, healthcare back to the states and lowered premiums, give healthcare back in the hands of the american people, reform medicaid, reduce taxes by $1 trillion. reporter: if i may interrupt, it does sound great on paper but wouldn t the senate would we have seen any progress in the chamber? that is our democratic process, how we legislate. we pass a bill in the house and take it to the senate and reforms come back to us. we had to go to first base. we didn t get to first base. beyond first base, the secretary has the right to address 1200 rules. the secretary of hhs to ....
Medicaid is restricted in many respects, i get that, i don t think it s that s a legitimate critique about medicaid and its delivery services. if people don t have medicaid, if they go from medicaid to not having anything, then they get to buy insurance but they have less money to buy that insurance and they can t afford the insurance, how have they been made better off? you re only looking at one aspect. you re only looking at step one of what the gop what the republican plan is. when competition and innovation enters the market, when the individual market recovers and they have better options at lower cost and let s not forget, chris why do we think that s going to happen, congressman? i would love it to be the case and i think everyone watching this program would love a universe in which there was more competition and lower cost but there s nothing in the mechanisms of this bill that suggests that s going to be the case and that s the finding of the cbo as well. ....
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 ....