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Insurance market and actually get coverage thats affordable for them. >> sam stein? >> i want to talk about medicaid. medicaid, under your provision, theres $840 billion in cuts to the medicaid. the cbo estimated that 14 million people will lose their coverage out of the 24 million people that lose coverage, 14 million will be medicaid eligible. what is your message to someone who depends on medicaid? low-income people, often have bad medical conditions, no private insurance. they need medical h...

Crying, whose disabled child lost health care. its not complicated. as joe manchin said they might not remember who gave you the health care but theyll certainly remember who took it away. >> 20 house republicans who voted against the gop health care bill. congressman leonard lance of new jersey. congressman, why didnt you step in line and vote for the bill? you could have gone to the white house, had your picture taken with the president and gone to the oval office. >> mika, i always try to vot...

Americans, many who voted for him, who are struggling to take care of their children, who are struggling to take care of their parents, who are struggling to take care of their grandparents, this really is an issue of life and death. and so many people that voted for this bill voted without reading the bill, voted without having a cbo score and voted without having any idea what impact it would have. >> yeah. >> on their constituents. good luck to all of them. >> ashley parker in the washington ...

To that, its not true as well. there are massive amount of people who will end up losing health insurance under this plan. were only going by the old cbo score, too, right? that had 24 million people potentially losing coverage. they didnt wait around for a new cbo score which will come. but that will likely show even more people losing coverage under this plan. the medicaid cuts i think are the biggest thing here. $840 billion in medicaid cuts. were talking about a huge swathe of the population...

The long run to really curb the cost of this health care system in any fundamental way. theres going to have to be radical reform of the health care system and these republicans werent willing to do enough. so, instead, they presented a plan thats only going to hurt people, that needed the health care coverage the most. and they didnt even look at the cbo score. they didnt even read the bill. remember when they mocked nancy pelosi for seven years saying weve got to pass the affordable care act t...

Law theyre essentially taking away from those trump districts. >> we had tim ryan on the show, congressman tim ryan of ohio, democrat, who said -- he didnt name names on the air but he said he had friends, republicans on the hill who didnt want to vote for this, were persuaded in some way by the white house to vote for it. why would you do that if you didnt believe in something and thought it was a bad bill for people who live in your district, the people who benefit from medicare expansion, why...

Identical. you have $800 billion in savings by stripping people of their ben with fits and you have $800 billion in tax cuts for the rich. i cant understand the messaging. i cant can understand tunderst. and most importantly, i cant understand the morality of this. >> its a basic betrayal. you kind of hit the nail on the head. it is a basic betrayal of what donald trump told people in ohio when he was campaigning. i listened very carefully to what he said. he was going to expand medicaid, med ka...

Modified later in the process. and i think that the cbo score was really dispositive in my analysis. >> heidi? >> okay. what about lowering premiums? isnt the whole structure of the bill sn essentially the same? you expressed concerns about lowering premium and that this plan wouldnt essentially do that. isnt that essentially the same as the original bill that you supported? >> i think that i was informed by the cbo score. i think its not necessarily inappropriate to begin a process in a committ...

Thats free but you cant go see anybody, so youre seeing emergency room visits are going up. for decades weve been wanting to reform medicaid so that states can run the program. its run out of washington right now. if you have an innovative idea in a state you cant even change the program to help low-income people. >> youre taing taking $840 billion, flexibility is helpful but in sheer numbers of dollars youre going to end up with 14 million fewer people without health insurance. what do you do f...

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