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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 s ton say. he said hes worried about adverse consequences for millions of americans and it wouldnt deliver on the promise to reduce the cost of h...

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...

Gains from the affordable care act. at the same time the federal government would save a lot of money on health insurance subsiies 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 amounts of $12,000, $13,000, would only get a subsidy, if they got a subsidy at all, of $4,000 or less? >> right. so ...

Obamacare is collapsing and we must act decisively to protect all americans. >> joining us, douglas elmendorf, american economist, and professor of public policy at harvard kennedy school, he was the director of the congressional budget office 2009 to 2015. also former acting administrator of the centers for medicare and medicaid services from 2015 to 2017. doug doug, you cant envy the cbo having to struggle with this one. i want to get your reaction to what cbo projected today about this plan. ...

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 talk to you in another segment. coming up, donald trump remains cowering in silence whenever a reporter speaks in the his presence. had. the classes, the friends, the ind...

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 insurance, which brings us to the biggest lie donald trump has ever told about health care. >> ...

All americans. >> joining us, douglas elmendorf, american economist, and professor of public policy at harvard kennedy school, he was the director of the congressional budget office 2009 to 2015. also former acting administrator of the centers for medicare and medicaid services from 2015 to 2017. doug a doug, you cant envy the cbo having to struggle with this one. i want to get your reaction to what cbo projected today about this plan. >> well, the congressional budget office estimated that the ...

>> 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 sets of people arent going to get benefits? because states as we know have to balance their bud...

>> good location, all that stuff. thank you, rachel. today, one of donald trumps little lies, an important lie but a little lie, was exposed by sean spicer. and one of his biggest, cruelest lies was exposed by a republican who has figured out how many people will lose their health insurance thanks to donald trump, who promised that no one would lose their health insurance under his plan. >> 24 million more people would be uninsured in the next decade than under the current law. >> if youre loo...

And one of his biggest, cruelest lies was exposed by a republican who has figured out how many people will lose their health insurance thanks to donald trump, who promised that no one would lose their health insurance under his plan. >> 24 million more people would be uninsured in the next decade than under the current law. >> if youre looking at the cbo for accuracy, youre looking in the wrong place. >> we disagree strenuously with the report that was put out. >> when they hear something they d...