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Cbo issued its report three weeks before any committee voted on affordable care act and. so i think senator mcconnell is going to have real difficulty. his mainstream republicans dont like it because it cuts back on medicate and, remember med dade is for poor people, but 60% goes to people in nursing homes and it affects their kids. youre a kid, 40, 50, your mom or dad are in a nursing home, you could be kicked out. what would you do? you have to take them home. maybe mom and dad has to stop wor...

Introducing the secretary of health and human services and the director of the office of management and budget, getting their reaction to the congressional budget office report. >> well obviously have more tomorrow as we go forward. with that, let me turn it over to dr. tom price, the secretary of health and human services. >> thanks, sean. thank you so much. it was a good cabinet meeting that we had. during the meeting the cbo report came out. i think its important that we ask the question comp...

The 28 million who would lack insurance that year under the current law. lets get some more on this blistering assessment of the impact of the republicans obamacare replacement plan. tom price saying we disagree strongly. the report is not believable. cnns sunlen serfaty is on capitol hill. walk us through the report with specifics. >> wolf, certainly these numbers are much worse for republican leaders on capitol hill than what they were expecting earlier today. showing that millions of american...

Plan. the entire plan includes the regulatory apparatus that we have the ability to use that the previous administration used significantly. we want to use it to make se certain that patients are helped and costs are decreased. they ignored completely the other legislative activities that well put into place to make certain that we have an insurance market that actually works. we disagree strenuously with the report that was put out. we believe our plan will cover more individuals at a lower cos...

Coverage. then you have the conservative -- conservative republican senators who think this bill goes too far. so senator mcconnell is -- has got a very, very difficult job behind him for -- ahead of him. and he only has the bill to blame. not anything were doing. he, you know -- democrats to a person are not voting for this bill. hes got to get the votes, they asked for that when they asked for reconciliation and the bill made it extremely difficult for him to do it. >> i would like to say that...

Lines and well have further comment tomorrow and talk with our colleagues about why we believe the plan, the entire plan that we have recommended moving forward and adopting is one that will provide greater opportunity for folks to purchase the coverage that they want and put patients and families and doctors in charge of health care and not the federal government. . >> stay warm. >> tom price, the secretary of health and human services. mick mulvaney, director of the office of management and bu...

Numbers and you know what youre talking about. as i said to you the other day, the speaker was the one who signed the letter insisting that we have a cbo report before we proceeded with the affordable care act, which we >> when it was important then, now the republicans are saying its not so important now and who is that anyway? who is this congressional budget office anyway? its somebody appointed by the republicans to do the numbers. and to come as close as possible to what the impact will be ...

For her great words. now, the republican, hand-picked, head of cbo has confirmed what we democrats have been saying all along. trumpcare would be a nightmare for the american people, causing tens of millions to lose coverage and millions more seeing the costs of their health care going up. ten years from today, if president trump and the republicans have their way, there would be 24 million more americans without health insurance, a total of 58 million americans living in this country ten years ...

They got to that because theyre saying fewer older people will be getting coverage. older people with higher costs will drop off the insurance marketplace. do you agree with that estimate of the cbo -- >> no, we dont. i point again to the fact that apparentlily what cbo looked at was simply the bill pending before congress. it do not look at the regulatory reforms or state innovation grants or the flexibility that well allow the states. because thats what the states are demanding and asking for....

Speaking. >> the republicans are confused right now. some of them are saying, discrediting the cbo, and others are glorifying pushing 24 million people off of coverage. so i hope that they would pull the bill. thats really the only decent thing to do. numbers are important. they see the numbers. they should know how that transfers into peoples lives. they are finding that out from their constituents. how can they look their constituents in the eye when they say to them, 24 million of you are no ...