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Insurance under obama cared that this would imperil. this was the nail in their coffin. these are the headlines a few weeks ago. now, the white house is coming out saying basically these are all fake numbers to begin with and we shouldnt be paying attention to it. >> it goes to what were talking about earlier, that they have to proactively send out statement to say to the american people, jesse said he knows cbo comes out in the media talks about this, a lot of it isnt actually accurate. you can...

Of premiums. thats extremely critical, making sure that the cost of premiums are reduced. and so i think thats important. make sure deductibles are reduced. and take the medicaid discussion off the table at this time. >> julian, would you agree with that compromise that christopher is saying, hey, republicans in the senate, how about this idea? >> i think its a great theoretically. its whis ling past the graveyard. this is a bill that is having a great deal of difficulty getting enough republica...

Replace legislation in the senate to get this done. go get them fired up and say, hey, there are a lot of folks who would like to go with 100% repeal. i think he may have been lighting a fire under them and drawing more attention to the overall need to get this done. we saw another provider pull out of ohio and another out of nevada. we have to get this right and fix this. i think thats probably what the president was speaking to. hey, bottom line, im glad we are talking health care. this is a b...

Something they dont want to buy? >> jonathan gerber? >> so its hard to say where to begin. start with the last point. first of all, cbo estimates that the individual mandate itself, getting rid of that will cost about one-third of the total amount. moreover,s that not people forced to buy insurance. part of that people who will drop insurance because its become more expensive because the healthy left the market. point one. point two, cbo, there were two key rejections had to do with this law and...

Deficit between 2017 and 20026. when it comes to the premiums, they will go 10% higher in 2019 but drop 30% in 2020. steve: if you believe the cbo estimates. they have been historically really wrong. for instance back in 2013. they were estimating in the year 2017, this year we are in right now, there would be 25 million people on obama obamacare. do you know how many they there are? 10 million. they are off by 15 million people. ainsley: some senators say they are going to look at the cbo repor...

Hasnt worked in the past and wont work in the future either. >> the claim is and question heard from mick mulvaney there, because of the tax cuts you will see increased gdp and the questions were very pointed. the focus is goi to be moving it to 3%. most thinkers though s thats not likely. >> well, we saw the cbo still keeping it at 2%. normally theres not much of a gap omb and cbo estimates but theyre talking about fanciful numbers here when you have that big of a gap of 1%. its just this idea ...

Shield of kansas city has pulled out of missouri and kansas. there are people there who have no options to buy health insurance at all. wyoming were down to one choice. places around the country where nobody is selling because its such a bad deal that so few people are buying. >> shannon: there has been a lot of question about the cbo estimates. these arent perfect numbers. we want to give you examples so people know what we are talking about when they were off about obamacare. 20 million people...

Modifications are ongoing. we have to make sure, we have to get it done. >> of the bill gets to the senate floor, it is open to changes, the congressional office budget report, 24 million people, scaring away some republican support and the white house firing back calling the cbo estimates, quote, consistently wrong. abby: cabinet picks set to be confirmed today, making the new director of national intelligence, and general mcmaster nominated for national your advisor, and to keep his current mi...

Desperately need health insurance. >> when you say the cbos numbers were off. how do you respond to that. >> i dont understand -- >> by a lot. >> wait a minute, can i say what i dont understand? the original cbo estimates of obama care was off because there were changes that had to be made in obama care, and a lot of states did not express. did not decide to expand medicaid coverage obviously theres going to be a change in terms of what the estimate is going to be. that doesnt mean that right no...

Metaphor out any more. im a father of three. understood. cbo, so, the cbo comes out with a fairly catastrophic estimate of how this would hurt 24 million people, would be off health care under this republican plan. of course, now you have sean spicer attacking the cbo theyre never right, theyre never right. let me remind you and our viewers what president trump said in 2014 about the cbo. heres one of his tweets as i predicted, obama already caught lying on obamacare enrollment numbers by cbo st...