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Effectiveness research. this is great. this is where panelists get together and theyll have experience in a wide variety of areas, including economics. economics? wait a minute. i thought the problem with healthcare in america it was all about money and we werent going to have bean counters anymore. right. this bean counter no longer will be with your insurance company. this one will be a benevolent grant-writing bean counter from washington. youll be powerless over this guy. you cant leave his ...

Provision because we are dealing with the senate restrictions. those of the bean counters in d.c. and the senate that are causing this, not the economy back home. the individual rates -- i believe that clip were looking at five years down the road, no elected official will allow us to do that. >> real quick, give me the odds that the senate actually passes something before the end of the year. >> ive said it before. we are approaching 100%. they know what tax reform represents to the average ame...

Reed a little bit later and i asked him about the fact that donald trump all along has said that he would not allow people to lose coverage if he were president. we know, of course, that the cbo has looked at this plan and said that up to 24 million people might lose their coverage. here is what congressman reed had to say. >> under the existing path that we are on with the affordable care act, we are seeing scores that were predicting 24 million folks having coverage. now only 10 million folks....

>> we have so much legally to break down. right on time. lets get to the news. the federal bean counters at the congressional budget office are set to tell us how much the gops healthcare plan will cost. exactly how many people it will cover in the democrats already warning that millions of people will be cast off their healthcare plan. but republicans are down playing the significance of what the cbo may find. saying its gotten things wrong before. >> the cbo was right about obamacare to begin ...

Will not cut costs as promised. remember the 2500 number? it will raise insurance rates for a 11 million americans according to a government agency who is watching these numbers for us. good morning, everybody. happy tuesday, im martha maccallum. here in "americas newsroom." >> good morning, martha. >> hi, irrake. >> im eric shawn sitting in for bill hemmer. its a non-partisan report and predicts 65% of small business will supreme premiums go up. those plans cover 11 million people and employers...

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There is give-and-take. im bill hemmer. a big welcome back to martha. coming out of the mountains and back to the city. martha: out of the mountains and back to the city where there is more snow than the mountains sometimes. good morning im martha maccallum. this report is released just as the senate gets ready to debate the proposal to raise the minimum wage to $10.10. bill: my friend, this will cost a lot of jobs. how do you see it? >> raising a minimum wage is the mainstay of the presidents e...

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