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Trying to force in one-sixth of our economy remake in a week. from the politics to the policy of it. you talked about trying to bring premiums down. trying to bring insurers back in the market and make health care more affordable. what about the policy of it? does it answer the chief challenges left over from obamacare? >> well, it depends on who you talk to. the critics of the senate bill on the right argue that it doesnt in this regard. that without repealing more robustly a lot of the coverag...

It with these sorts of changes. there is going to be a robust amendment process once it gets on the floor. under the reconciliation rules which is allowing the republicans to avoid a democratic filibuster, you end up with hundreds of hamilton being proposed in an open -- hundreds of amendments being proposed in an open amendment provides. we call it a vote-a-rama. there are competing forces here. the more pragmatic republicans are concerned about what this is going to do for coverage and coverag...

Through the house in may, will need to accomplish a number of goals. among them, mollifying concerns from moderates that popular provisions from obamacare, like coverage protections for pre-existing conditions, will remain in place, while at the same time building a framework for a market-based health care system freed from the shackles of government regulation, a necessity to win over conservative house republicans. democrats, who have not participated in the process, remain skeptical that it w...

Any women or democrats and has had very little input from the white house. the process, done behind closed doors, has been criticized even by republicans, but those on the working group promise all those fears will go away on thursday. >> a working draft will be released tomorrow. i think all the concerns people have had about the process will evaporate, because i think therell be unlimited opportunities for people to read it and understand whats in it and then debate it. >> but that unlimited t...

Constituents, heck, his own voters health care, a potential matter of life and death, in exchange for a political win. last night, according to multiple reports, his administration took a step forward on its sabotage threat. a democratic aide recounted that during a phone call between nancy pelosi and mick mulvaney, mulvaney said the administration might not make its insurance payments as soon as next month. concern about just such a move by the white house, democrats have been insisting on fund...

United health care says it will maintain coverage protections included in the nations health care reform law, regardless of how the supreme court rules on the challenge legislation. cnbc is reporting ubs is ready to sue nasdaq for what could amount to $350 million in losses from its botched facebook ipo. and big congratulations to the winner of warren buffetts annual charity lunch auction, who forked over, get this, nearly $3.5 million to dine with the billionaire. the os walk off, a subwa...

That goes even further. it allows states to opt out of two of the ac as most popular provisions, minimum coverage standards which require things like maternity care and mental health treatment, and coverage protections for people with pre-existing conditions. as democratic senator chris murphy of connecticut tweeted, so the gop took an aca repeal bill with 17% approval and fixed it by letting insurers jack up rates for anyone who is or was ever sick? genius. with support from the freedom caucus,...