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$7500 in federal assistance for health care, they voted 60-35, trump over clinton. so in other words, financially, in this plan, its trump folks that get hurt more than clinton voters. look, president trump was elected largely on to repeal and replace the affordable care act. trump supporters may get the repeal, but higher costs could come as part of that deal. coming up, why the trump administration suddenly thinks the jobs report that was once 90% fiction is now right on the money. announcer: ...

Going to pass the senate. >> simply would not pass the senate. >> its dead on arrival. >> conservatives say tax credits are a government giveaway and they wan obamacares expansion phased out quickly and then there are republican moderates meaning fierce opposition at town hall. they are pushing back on the plan to phase out the medicaid expansion by 2020 and to cap federal funding by medicaid enrollees. >> in ohio we have the expanded medicaid critical to covering people who otherwise would not ...

Theyre in the small group markets which has been literally destroyed by the aca and it will reinvigorate the insurance market and it will drive down costs because youll have competition and transparency in the system. >> you accept this bill. you own this bill. president trump accepts this bill and owns this bill. fair? >> we strongly support this plan. the bill and the regulatory opportunity to modify the system in a way that works for patients and the other piece of legislation that is require...

Conservatives want to scrap obamacare completely and they call the current house republican bill obamacare light. will the president use his own political capital to insist that the president put aside ideological differences and support the bill? on the campaign trail mr. trump promised he would own it. >> well call it donald care. >> schmoozing lawmakers and so far not twisting arms. it was vice president mike pence in kentucky on saturday selling health care, not the president. >> for us to s...

Trump care, well be stuck with obamacare, which is in det deteruation. >> i think well see it slow down this week when the cbo numbers cop out. >> senators will run for the bill. >> i think the bill will pass. >> the house and senate? >> absolutely. we have no idea when thatill looklike. >> you think what we see now. >> it will go througchanges in opinion. >> you think we make it? this year? >> i dont think its going to pass and i also think were going to be stuck with obamacare, were not going ...

Republicans are putting it together be used to re-implement obamacare? >> i dont think so because this does serious damage to the whole marketplace theory and companies will flee given the uncertainty and the likelihood, this quickly becomes a high-risk pool. >> they make the argument, by the way, that companies are fleeing now because they feel as if its too expensive to try to insure everybody and we do have this issue in rural america. its truly the rural counties that have been hit the harde...

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>> i think the president, by the way, would be flexible. i have no doubt that he would be flexible. he just wants to get something through. >> the idea of getting democrats involved here. the other day president trump kind of expressed what sounded like a conspiracy theory about obamacare and implosion in 2017. take a listen. >> 17 would be a disaster for obamacare. thats the year it was meant to explode because obama wont be here. that is what it was supposed to be. as bad as it is now, it will...

That were going through, but the important thing is to appreciate that the market as it is right now is failing. obamacare, the aca, has failed. yoha premiums going up, you have deductibles where people have an insurance card, but they dont have any coverage. we ha third of the counties that only have one insurer offering coverage. five states offering only one insurer offering coverage, and that is not. responsible to the individuals selecting the coverage. we need to fix this and move in a dir...

First of all, medicaid expansion which has covered 700,000 people in my state, a big chunk of whom are mentally ill and drug addicted and have chronic diseases, they tend to churn and move off that program. then they have to go to an exchange that is broken. the bill needs fixed. the current system doesnt work and thats why its possible to get democrats involved, but you dont want to throw the baby out with the bath water. let me ask you this, chuck. if i put you an exchange for your family and ...