over ten years and he wants to foot the bill by reversing some of the trump administration s tax cuts. the bottom line here is that biden s plan preserves the popular parts of obamacare and builds on it. i want to bring in julie robner, the chief correspondent for kaiser healthcare news, health news. now, healthcare as we know is one of the top issues among voters when it comes down to why they re going to vote for a certain candidate. you call biden s plan ambitious. why is that and what do you think is going to be the biggest pushback to it. well, it s a lot like the plan hillary clinton was pushing in 2016 and it s a lot of things the democrats and more liberal democrats in the house wanted to do in 2009 and 2010 but they couldn t get it through senate so things like the public option, which has been kicking around. things like having medicare negotiate drug prices, these are not new ideas. he s basically taken all of the old ideas and put them altogether. it would not be as big
would push obamacare to the side and start all over. senator kamela harris supports a single run health plan. which plan has the best chance of winning over voters? well, first remember you have to win over democratic voters in the primary. that s what they re talking about now. then you have to come before the rest of the public. this is an issue whether democrats are perhaps pushing too far. medicare polls well until you tell the tradeoffs would be. you have to give up your private insurance. you might pay higher taxes. then support kind of falls a little bit. so finding some of the other candidates for president are pushing on more what they consider moderate and perhaps doable paths. we don t really know where the public is. we know that people have been talking about single payer for 30 some years now, no one has ever gotten close to really saying we should actually do this. all right. julie, thank you for breaking down what is a very complicated
people with preexisting conditions. president trump kept the focus on the individual mandate repeal tweeting later in the day, remember, the most hated part of obamacare is the individual mandate which is being terminated under our just signed tax cut bill. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell didn t say obamacare is dead today. here he is calling on senators to work together on health care legislation. the graham/cassidy proposal, they intend to obviously continue to work on. and my view of that is as soon as we have the votes to achieve it i d like to do that. 51-49 is a pretty tight majority. but i d love to be able to make more substantial changes to obamacare than we have. joining us now is julie robner chief correspondent at kaiser health news and understands this stuff better than almost anyone. julie, the failing of american
doing to the health law. julie, you said there are other components of obamacare that might prove more valuable and this doesn t signal the end of obamacare. medicaid expansion, this is something that a lot of people didn t think about, because they thought about the mandates and the mandatory coverage, but there are a lot of experts who tell me that they feel medicaid expansion was actually more impactful. medicaid expansion has covered more people. there was always an expectation that it was going to be a big part of the coverage expansion. the two populations that have not traditionally been able to get their own coverage are people who are poor and in some states, poor enough to get medicaid, but don t meet one of the other categories. they re not disabled, elderly, pregnant women or children. and there were sick people who couldn t buy insurance because insurers wouldn t sell to them. what the affordable care act did more than anyone else, it let those people into the health i
come out and said, this isn t over, they are going to revisit a real repeal and maybe a replacement of obamacare in 2018. any sense of what that looks like? well, i think one of the things that surprised a lot of people this year is how surprisingly popular medicaid is. medicaid was always sort of the poor step child. medicare was the program that policy makers, lawmakers were afraid to touch. and yet the efforts to really pare back medicaid, not just take away the expansion, but cap it overall, were met with enormous resistance from republicans as well as democrats. so i think they may be surprised at how difficult it is to scale back medicaid. julie, good to see you. you too. up next, the most dangerous man in america.