reasons. good morning, everyone. welcome to new day. house republicans finally revealing their plan for the future of their health care. chris has it right here. he is combing through it. it s heavy. good beach reading. critics pouncing, saying it will likely leave millions of people uninsured. 53 pages of your futures. you should read it. you need to understand it to judge it. all this going on as president trump is refusing to back down from his unproven claim that former president barack obama wiretapped him during the campaign. the fbi chief swrim comey is said to be incredulous. co comey has not said anything directly or formally. will he? day 47 of the trump administration. we begin our coverage with sunlen serfaty on capitol hill.
politics. it s really a conundrum, a predictable one. it s a mess right now. of course, it s going to go to committee and be marked up. i don t see how you fix this. republicans talk a lot about access. right. that more people will have access to health insurance. i don t know who said it. maybe it was you. but somebody likening access to americans also have access to bmws. if you can afford a bmw, you have access to it. it doesn t mean you can afford health care coverage. we saw congressman jason chaffetz on, who all but admitted people will lose their coverage. we do think we can expand coverage so people have access to a quality health care product they want. more access but less coverage? that might be the byproduct? well, yes. so, is that going to fly?
them more flexibility, which is what we heard the governors in town literally last week, they told us we want more flexibility. there s a lot to like about this. do you know what i really like about it? we re going to do it in an open and transparent way, unlike what the democrats did with the affordable care act where they slammed it through in less than 24 hours, it s going to go through a mark-up. you ve got two committees of jurisdiction that will offer amendments and we ll have this debate over the next several weeks. what if it leaves lower income americans uninsured? we want them to be able to provide, have a method to get access to it. there are things we like, for instance, with pre-existing conditions, people allow iing -i think there s a lot of good things. but access for lower income americans doesn t equal coverage. well, we re getting rid of the individual mandate. we re getting rid of those things that people said that they don t want. americans have choices.
we have heard definitively that people know that this is not working. so, we re going to try something different. we do think we can expand the coverage so that people have access to a quality health care product that they want. more access, but possibly less coverage? that might be the byproduct? well, yes. i think that s fair. but we re just now consuming this. so, more of the analysis has to happen. that s premature. we just saw the bill as of yesterday. we re just starting to consume it. we will have to look at how that analysis moves forward. fair enough. congressman jason chaffetz, thanks for being here. thanks for having me. chris? the white house doubling down on the president s wiretapping claims. democratic reaction from richard blumenthal next. see me. see me. don t stare at me. see me. see me. see me to know that psoriasis is just something that i have.
ultimately whether this is seen as being successful is whether or not people s health insurance premiums will go down and whether people have coverage. i do think it s a problem to have fewer people covered. but this is an ideological disagreement. when i talked to republicans on the hill about this, they will push back against the idea, just like you saw with chaffetz, basically the idea that there is some sort of moral responsibility to have more people insured. they ll say, no, we think when you talk about health insurance, you should also just be talking about access, the quality of the insurance plans that people have access to. it s not just about covering more people. so, there s just a gap in terms of what people believe in terms of what you want to accomplish with something like this. so i think the republicans would say we want to have more access and bring down costs. democrats would say the same but we also want to make sure that poor people are covered.