Andy Slaft News Today

Analyst dr. leana wen. also with us is andy slaft, former senior adviser to the white house for the covid response. mr. slaft, you helped to lead the white house not long ago. shoulder this push against the spread of misinformation, should the have started long ago about things got this far? >> well, it did. today is the day that it reached anew level with the surgery putting out a report effectively saying that we have to call this out by name. we cant just accept the fact that this is part of ...

Premiums, things like that will bring down costs and perhaps as much by 30% or 35%. >> andy, whats your thought? >> i think the big struggle that the senate has right now is democrats generally want to push health care policies to cover more people. generally speaking, republicans want to push down costs. this bill does neither. this bill causes people to lose coverage and makes the coverage more expensive. so, the problem that mcconnell has isnt a political one. its a political one borne out of...

Used to advise the trump campaign and andy slaft, once the acting administrator for the centers for medicare and medicaid services, he managed the affordable care act in the obama white house. you guys are numbers guys so let me throw a few out there. we have the cbo score that came out yesterday. 22 million more americans, it says, will not have health care in the next decade under the current senate plan versus what is current law, obamacare. also said $321 billion will be reduced from the def...