reckoning that is coming. despite everything that you just outlined what it does to the debt, democrats also call it robin hood in reverse. why? because you have massive cuts to social safety net programs in here and programs that feed poor people, that block grant medicaid, about 675 billion cuts to federal health care programs. and we don t even get to balance. so this is what our future is. this is as a result of irresponsible decisions that have been made for the past decade. the bingeing on war spending. the bingeing on tax cuts. and the failure of our government to address the long-term programs the entitlement spending programs. that s a look at our future and now a look of the reality of the president responding to a complaint about campaign finance violation. president trump s personal attorney has acknowledged paying an adult film actress tens of thousands of dollars in the final days of the 2016
there has been no time for it to really amass public support. the same thing happened with the last bill. no one owned it, no one was amassing support for it. this is not a way to pass a bill that needs major support. you re trying to reflect your community as editorial page editor, are people i m outraged about obamacare, don t get rid of obamacare. is that what we have come to, don t change it, it s like the public is sending mixed signals. in michigan, we were a state that embraced the medicaid expansion. 700,000 people have signed up, and that raises the cost, considerably. a lot of those people will say i m against obamacare. there is a lot of misunderstanding for people
medicaid is given out in this country. is this the time to do that? medicaid is going to go broke. it cannot continue. it does not cut medicaid. it decreases the growth. all the groups you listed, chuck, they decided they would climb in bed with the obama administration to pass it. you know why? it mandated everybody have insurance. everyone is forced to buy insurance. so if you want it or not, you re forced to buy insurance or if you re a corporation you re forced to buy insurance. the american people are tired of special interests deciding what the vote is going to be in washington, d.c. shouldn t there be some pause that there is not a single medical health care group that supports the bill. there are millions of americans that will benefit, we think every state will benefit, you know why? because governors will be given the opportunity to allocate the
to keep it. once we do, the republican name is on health care. it won t work. we ll have republicans absorb the blame for a terrible health care system. so if block grant is in there, you re a no. there is no room for you to move? i would block grant at preobama levels. if you want to look at 2009 say do you want to block grant medicaid, i would say say yes. after you have doubled the spending on the entitlement programs, we have a $700 trillion deficit this year. we can t keep piling on money. we have to have some that are for repealing obamacare. you probably heard the speculation, but the national review put it this way about you. there has been widespread speculation that paul is blaing a game on obamacare. he does not wish to really see major changes to it and he will find libertarian sounding problems with the bill.
richest friends. that s what this is all about pay attention, ladies and gentlemen, not to his twitter account, which he uses to take us in another direction. the agenda is to hurt american people, poor individuals will not benefit under these plans, he s absolutely telling you what he wants to do. the former governor of arkansas thinks that health care is ultimately a problem for states to solve. listen to what he said on fox news recently. i got a big idea for this. turn most of these decisions over to the individual states. block grant medicaid completely with total flexibility for each state. take some of the other components and say to the individual states. live out the tenth amendment for once, and say, we don t have a federal solution. medicaid in mississippi looks different than it does in massachusetts, let s recognize