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Up regulations at nursing homes where people could get some redress for horrible mistreatment. >> right. >> and if you take cutting medicaid and maybe turning it into a bloc grant, which is going to mean fewer people working at nursing homings for all of those people who are there, were going to see more abuses, more bad care, and i think an enormous set of problems, all driven by this misguided tax cut. >> again, 7% of the, of federal spending is on this government support programs. 0.4 of 1% m...

Pre-existing conditions protections are treated in this bill or if they dont believe their state gets enough funding because of the way the bloc grant is formulated. its also the politics here. theyre keenly aware that theres a very good reason that they control the white house, the senate and the house right now. what will win out in the end, whether its politics or policy or some iteration of both, that will decide whether or not repeal and replace moves on through the senate. >> thank you ver...

Again as yogi berra would say. it would substantially increase the number of insured, that is moving outside the normal committee. and the thought that you would restructure one fifth without a score for the cbo is incredible. and is facing opposition from some republican as well as democratic governors because it would impose substantial costs are republican constituencies. the twist is this bill, more directly than the previous ones, redistricts federal dollars away from blue states toward rep...

Get an alternative, and looping in the president on their ideas. garrett tenney is live in washington with more reaction from capitol hill and more on the new proposal. hi, garrett. >> reporter: eric, you will remember senate majority leader mitch mcconnell said its time to move on from repealing obamacare. president trump made it very clear he has no intentions of doing that. in a series of tweets he urged republicans to vote on any other legislation until they vote again on health care, and to...

Date for a full vote in the house on the tweaked bill thursday. >> were trying to make sure we address as many of these concerns as possible without destroying the bill. >> reporter: several top gop aides tell cnn they believe the new changes with the presidents pushing will cobble together enough votes to get a majority and send it to the senate. >> i want everyone to know im 100% behind this. >> reporter: casting himself as the closer today, president trump eager to display his deal-making. >>...

Changing with the presidents pushi pushing will cobble together enough votes. casting himself as the closer, president trump eager to display his dealmaking. >> all of these nos, or potential nos, are all yeses, every single person sitting in this room is now a yes. >> huddling with members of the conservative study committee in the oval office to hash out their serious doubts. >> we made certain changes and frankly little although the bloc grant is very important. i want the states to get the m...

Hire because they have lower health care costs. >> yesterday secretary price you mentioned the speaker, yesterday we heard hhs secretary price guarantee that premiums would come down under this new plan. this was roughly this time yesterday. it sounds as if you are conceding that there will definitely be fewer people covered under whatever plan the republicans come up with. is that fair to say? >> no, its not fair to say. the major concern is i dont want a federal plan. if we bloc grant we can b...

Just about every american, one in five americans. >> generally somebodys parent are on it. >> somebodys parents are on it so now the question what do we do about the medicaid expansion. the aca says expand medicaid and the supreme court says you dont have to, its an option. 31 states expanded the medicaid program aund the aca. of those 31 states, 16 had republican governors. what are you going to do with the expansion? 11 million people of the 75 have coverage through this expansion. the questio...

Whether its working. its about stoking the base by repeating over and over, obamacare bad. >> the truth does matter and my party wants to get to the truth. the bottom line, this is a big government health care program, we know that. and at the end of the day, conservatives dont think a big centralized federal government can do this better than the states or the local government or the private insurance companies. youre sending millions of people new to the government roles they cant pay for in t...