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Say its politically stupid. why? >> it as no main stream support. their plan got less than 20%. obamacare for all its flaws and it has many and its over 50% approval, no doctors group support this bill. theyre against it. thats the american medical association. patient groups like the american cancer society are against it. it has no support. it will not get a congressional budget office score which means we wont know the details the impact it will have on the budget or health care coverage befo...

Federal spending on both subsidies and fundamentally transforming medicaid. that was the core problem. they could never get over the line with that kind of maximal bill, i think largely because it hurt so many of their own constituents and in the process turned against them, several of the key republican governors, as well as every single interest in the medical community, from doctors and hospitals to all the patient groups and aarp and so forth. but i think the biggest thing the president did ...

Moderate republicans and strict repeal conservatives. its a failure of the republican r lawmakers right now to notch a victory and of trumps presidency. >> if you look at the plan, purely on republican votes, given the division within, you know, the republicans in the is that the, it seems an almost impossible task to davids point. how do they get that compromise if theyre not going to work with the democrats? >> i frankly dont know. because if this bill had gone forward and gotten to conference...

Hes the one person i would argue, not necessarily a left or right on ideology grounds. someone thinking can i vote for this and still win re-election next year? thats where the political pressure letter matter. matt is right to the watch for conservative groups and other patient groups. >> they didnt like the house version. and republican members complained about the process it was done behind closed doors. i happen to think, theyre not vote based on those complaints. yes, very angry but by the ...

Hearings. by contrast mcconnell is writing his bill in secrecy excluding democrats and the public. l.a. times reports 15 patient groups asked mcdonl office to meet with them. they were told mcconnell is too busy. its being drafted by 14 men no women who wont share the text with their republican colleagues. >> none of us have seen the language of the bill. washington post reports at least one senator complained the digital slides are flashed across the screen so quickly they can hardly be committ...

This massive piece of legislation seeks to restructure our economy is being written behind closed doors without input by anyone in an effort to jam it past not only the senate but the american people. >> that was senate majority leader describing with accuracy what he is now running to pass the health care bill. those comments weroctober of 2009 and hes talking about obamacare. there was tons of public input and more than a year of hearings. by contrast mcconnell is writing his bill in secrecy e...

Moving forward the way it is say the senate wrap their minds around all this, who are the biggest losers in america based on this? >> so i think -- this is a bill that impacts so many people. half the population has a pre-existing condition. i think all those people are extremely worried. were all seeing them on twitter and all over the level of energy and intensity is probably higher than even i would have guessed. secondly people who are older, my age, 50, once you get to 50, theres an age tax...

Defunding, however temporary of planneds parenthood, the age tax, higher premiums for those between 60 and 64 all of those provisions are causing consternation between democrats and republicans in the house. this will be a long and detailed process. then, if it does pass the senate, a little schoolhouse rook for you, the senate has to hammer out something and it is a it has to be identity for it to become law. dr. john torres. some of the winners and losers, if you will. we have opposition from ...

Of it. we know that the american medical association, we know the aarp is against it. but you have at least ten patient groups including those representing cancer patients, as were waiting to see members of congress who have come out against this hooflt are going to express their concern about what it might mean for people with pre-existing conditions. the senate wont do anything until they get cbo score. as democrats expect the news is bad, if the headlines again are as they were in march the f...

And i do think it is a risky strategy, just as for the democrats to pass something and once you sort of own that vote and legislation find out oh, this was an unintended effect i didnt realize what happened. >> but it is remarkable. patient groups, hospitals, doctors, aarp, all of them against this bill. you rarely see such a collective force of lobbying against the legislation that looks like its bound to pass and we know how high risk pools work. they work poorly. $8 billion to high risk pools...