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Secretary, tom price, was the chairman of the house budget committee, so lets not forget that. and at that time donald trump, who wasnt our president then, was tweeting out lots of negative cbo statistics about obamacare at the time. so its kind of hard to have it both ways. i think the really interesting political question now for the president is, remember, he campaigned on, were going to make this coverage better, its going to be cheaper, youre not going to lose your coverage, youre going to ...

Born in this country, that are born healthy, in order for this very large tax cut. >> yeah, and the republicans and their responses to this seem to be pretending that all americans get to choose any doctor they want at any time, when in fact most of us have insurance plans that some doctors do not participate in and some doctors actually reject. and so the idea that everyone has the choice of in i physician they want isnt true to begin with. i want to -- this point about premiums, theres an indi...

Care of all the kids that are born in this country, that are born healthy, in order for this very large tax cut. >> yeah, and the republicans and their responses to this seem to be pretending that all americans get to choose any doctor they want at any time, when in fact most of us have insurance plans that some doctors do not participate in and some doctors actually reject. and so the idea that everyone has the choice of in i physician they want isnt true to begin with. i want to -- this point ...

How you get tom cotton to vote for this bill in the senate. i listened to what he said. hes as far away from that bill as nancy pelosi is. >> i mean, one reason he may be far away from that is, lets not forget arkansas, his state, is one of the states that saw one of the most dramatic increases in coverage under obamacare for noncollege-educated whites. if you look across the country, there was a 39% increase between 2010 and 2015 in noncollege-educated whites health care coverage. from what the...

The house. >> and by the way, the clinton bill never came to a vote on the floor of the house. and it looked very strong. this is ancient history now. but it is easy to stop these things. andira, whats so fascinating about what david said, elementary republican politics is the safest way within the republican world to attack this bill is from the right. because that will block any challenge to you in a primary from the right over this issue. thats not what i heard tom cot ton say. he said hes wo...

Hall, who is a republican, who was approved by tom price to be the head of the congressional budget office. and we have a report coming out tonight indicating that inside the trump administration, which would presumably be office of management and budget, their own calculations indicated that even more people would lose health insurance than the cbo estimate so far. so this is -- these estimates are still a developing story. thank you very much for joining us tonight. david frum, were going to t...

This is why i think people need to see the forest through the trees. we are defederalizing an entitlement, bloc granting it back to the states, and capping its growth rate. thats never been done before. >> correct. that is cutting benefits to poor people through medicaid more dramatically than those benefits have ever been cut before. the congressional budget office issued its official estimate today for the republican health care bill. it projects that 24 million people will lose their health i...

Appointed in 2015 by house republicans at which time the health and human services secretary, tom price, was the chairman of the house budget committee, so lets not forget that. and at that time donald trump, who wasnt our president then, was tweeting out lots of negative cbo statistics about obamacare at the time. so its kind of hard to have it both ways. i think the really interesting political question now for the president is, remember, he campaigned on, were going to make this coverage bett...

Act. at the same time the federal government would save a lot of money on health insurance subsidies which this legislation would use partly to roll back the tax increases in the affordable care act, give more money back to higher-income people, and partly reduce federal borrowing. >> part of the way they save money is people who are subsidized up to ounts of $12,000, $13,000would only get a subsidy, if they got a subsidy at all, of $4,000 or less? >> right. so the subsidies, people can get thro...

>> andy, lets get your reaction to the medicaid piece of what youre hearing in this proposal. >> i think the simplest way to look at this proposal, the cbo verified this, were cutting medicaid by about 25%. and to remind everybody what medicaid does, medicaid is a program that takes care of kids, low-income people, seniors in long-term care, and people with disabilities. thats it. when you cut 25% from that, you really leave governors in states with very, very stark choices over which of those s...