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This bill is not about expanding coverage. it a quick and easy way to put a republican on the spot to ask does this bill reduce coverage or not. but that s what their defense is. take a look at house spouse e s ryan when he was pressed about it yesterday. i m frankly encouraged. c.b.o. is telling us we stabilize the market, lower premiums, save money and of course they re going to say if we re going to stop forcing people they don t want to buy something they re not going to buy it. that s why you have the uninsured numbers. we expected it. they re saying we re taking away the individual mandate there are going to be people who aren t forced to buy something won t, therefore the numbers will go down. the reality is it s much more complicated. some 14 million people will be in medicaid. they would simply no longer have the option to be in a federal ....
We are making fine tuning touches to the reconciliation bill, working on getting the consensus in the house and senate to make sure we make this the best possible legislation. now that we have this encouraging score from the cbo, this gives more room to work on. moves through the committee process. we have gone through two committees, we have two more to go. then to the senate. this is a work in progress and we are excited about it. i am frankly encouraged. even cbo is telling us we stabilize the market, lower premiums, lowers the deficit, saves money and more importantly of course they re going to say if we re going to stop forcing people to buy something they don t want to buy, they are not going to buy it. that s why you have the uninsured numbers. bret: if you are encouraged by the cbo report, what is the cbo report you are discouraged by? i ve seen a lot. i ve been reading them half my life. the point i am saying is cbo validated. ....
We are making fine tuning touches to the reconciliation bill, working on getting the consensus in the house and senate to make sure we make this the best possible legislation. now that we have this encouraging score from the cbo, this gives more room to work on. moves through the committee process. we have gone through two committees, we have two more to go. then to the senate. this is a work in progress and we are excited about it. i am frankly encouraged. even cbo is telling us we stabilize the market, lower premiums, lowers the deficit, saves money and more importantly of course they re going to say if we re going to stop forcing people to buy something they don t want to buy, they are not going to buy it. that s why you have the uninsured numbers. bret: if you are encouraged by the cbo report, what is the cbo report you are discouraged by? i ve seen a lot. i ve been reading them half my life. the point i am saying is cbo validated. ....
Gains under the affordable care act will be reraced in three years. and what s more important is that this is all done to give $600 billion worth of tax cuts to the wealthiest americans and major corporations, and it s the largest transfer of wealth from the low-income to high-income americans in the history of the country. $1.5 trillion. let s talk, congressman, about those gains under obamacare that you just mentioned, because in your state, under the aca, uninsured numbers dropped i think from 28% to 7%, but the trump administration keeps hammering home the line that obamacare s collapsing. who s right? is there anything in this bill at all that you see as an improvement on obamacare? you know, i ve looked hard to find that and there isn t. of course, it keeps some of the most popular provisions of the affordable care act/obamacare, in that people can stay on their parents policy until 26, there s no discrimination for pre-existing conditions, no ....