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Issues, to put in the forefront climate change and the activities that we had to take to both grow the economy and protect our planet, again, werent going to be solved in four years or eight years. in reality, i doubt theyll be solved in four or eight years of the biden administration. these are items that continually have to be updated. the root of what you can see president biden working on started with president obama. the affordable care act, they started this week and talked about the incre...

Base subsidies and expenses, those are industry folks who have benefited from those phenomena but who hasnt benefited? the american citizens, especially small businesses are struggling under obamacare, insurance premiums are out of control, plans with big insurers but one of the things the pres. is alluding to his secretary acosta will propose association health plans. and allowing small businesses to come together so they can have the same negotiating power and leverage big companies have. rob:...

They cant pass a bill that would satisfy the kind of conditions modern senate republicans and conservative senate republicans will vote for unless they break the filibuster and allow different bill to be crafted and pass with 50 republican votes and vice president -- rob: so much heat on getting obamacare from major medical organizations and you took a huge pile of money and stuck in front of all these people they will fight to keep that in their best interest. my question is there were things a...

Whether 20 million people who gained coverage under his 2010 law will remain insured. do you believe that, the people who will going to lose health care is going to be, if not the biggest element in this not passing? >> right. i mean, 20 million people have coverage under obamacare. under the republican plan, cbo estimated that 24 million were going to lose it. those are big numbers. those are -- those are very difficult for congress to get over. so, now, really, president trump says that obamac...

Kind of chuckled. look, im doing what i can do and im not interested in being in a war of word with the president. im going to praise him when hes right and when i dont think hes right ill criticize if i dont think im out of line. >> as far as the health care plan that the president and the gop leadership are pushing, you and three other republican governors have raised concerns about the impact on medicaid saying youve said the house bill, quote, provides almost no new flexibility for states, i...

Independent businesses announce their support for the american health care act and had previously identified hel care along with small business taxes as their two biggest priorities. and the presidents health care agenda will address many of their concerns for small businesses. yes,ed of course, the congressional bug office released their report on the american health care act. i know there have been significant concerns about the cbo report. i want to give context to the numbers that have been ...

More individuals and give them the choices they want for the coverage they want for themselves and family. not the government forces them to buy. >> reporter: it is important to point out the republican proposal does what republicans campaigned on. repeals the original mandate and medicaid expansion. two drivers for obamacare numbers. it reduces the deficit by $337 billion. and as we already know, it repeals most of the obamacare taxes. these are things republicans say we campaigned on this. jus...

Regulatory reforms to accompany that. the president was glad to see the national federation of businesses announce their support the the american health care act. and fib has identified health care as long with small business taxes as their two biggest priorities. the presidents health care agenda will address many of their concerns for small businesses. yesterday of course the cbo released their report on the american health care ability. i know there have been significant concerns about the cb...

10%. >> and house speaker paul ryan describing this as good news. >> actually, i think if you read the entire report, im encouraged by it. it exceeded my expectations. we are saying the government is not forcing people to buy something they dont want to buy. if we end the mandate, guess what, people wont buy that. >> the cbo score wasnt all bleak for republicans. the appeared plan would lower the deficit by $337 billion over ten years. the score is putting republicans on the defensive and embold...

Happening now. a final blast of the winter. whiteout conditions and heavy snow and strong winds across the northeast. this affects tens of millions of people. we have coverage of the late winter noreaster. welcome back to "early start." im christine romans. >> im dave briggs. spring is less than a week away. >> here we go. >> the storm is here. the snow we have been warning about starting to fall across the northeast. expected to get heavier throughout the morning and keep falling all day. tens ...