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Medicaid. >> whats important on medicaid to remember is that funding by medicaid is going up more than $70 billion through this. but only in washington where a not growing as fast is considered a cut. you can do these things. you can make with the vice president did this as governor. you can have state flexibility and innovation deliver better service to people at less cost to government. >> it is a cut to medicaid. the vice president signed on to run with the president who on the campaign trail...

As well as rand paul. how important do you think those two are to his sales pitch? >> well, know senator cruz is wanting to get to yes. and he be been open to negotiations and has been doing so for quite some time. look, he is beholdingen to his constituents and not to washington. the key hold ups with him in the current version of the bill thats out there on the table is he wants to see lower premiums and greater state flexibility with regard to health care. and those are things hes going to st...

Accomplished are, number one, lowering premiums. if premiums go down, thats a win for everyone. its a win for conservatives, its a win for moderates, its a win for the men and women we represent. but number two, another principle that unifies everyone is state flexibility. letting states have far more flexibility. so for example, with medicaid -- individual state designed creative and innovative new plans to care for the most vulnerable, letting a more moderate governor, like a john kasich in oh...

Medicaid expansion. there will be drastic changes to the medicaid program overall. states will get certain amounts of money, but the funding will be cut back drastically. we have more state flexibility to waive obamacare regulations in a one year block of funding. again, more or less in line with what we have been reporting. the big question, of course, came as we get more details and senate republicans get a chance to look through the bill. whether they feel they got enough of what they asked f...

Both house and senate passed a reconciliation bill. that became the platform for the bill that we had before our committee, and i thought the committee product after all of the work that was put in was a very good product. thats the one that got pulled from the floor because for some it was not conservative enough. they wanted that additional state flexibility for a state to say we dont want to do community rating. >> thats right. >> so that language was added. >> okay. i just want to establish ...

>> one of the questions asked was about how the president was meeting with the australian prime minister last night, which you covered, and essentially the president was saying that australians health care system is even better than ours which by the way, its universal health care. then in the briefing, sarah huckabee sanders was asked about that comment and is that the case? this is what she said. >> premiums are going to come down very substantially. the deductibles are going to come down. its...

Primarily the places we saw the most growth in this jobs report were in manufacturing, coal miners, other places. i certainly think you can have job growth even when there are job-killing regulations. >> back to the comment the president made to the australian prime minister, are you saying he didnt mean what he was saying when he said that they have a better health care system? >> im saying that the president was complimenting a foreign leader on the operations of their health care system and t...

Way the macarthur/meadows amendment broke the house. they said lets push them out to the states and let different states do different things. i suspect that idea of state flexibility as a way to bridge the divide that the phod rates and conservatives disagree on will probably be the template of how they resolve any remaining issues in the senate. >> sandra: senator mccain talking about this is all the fulfilling of a promise made to the american people over repealing obamacare. listen. >> i do b...

Pre-consisting -- pre-existing conditions. and about -- several pools by their state would face huge premiums, then there is a question about whether or not the government would have to back up some of these high-risk pools. so walk us through what you know about that. would it be that if you have pre-existing conditions, you have to pay more? is the government going to be on the bill for that? >> i think the priority is making sure that people that have the pre-existing conditions are taken car...

Care bill that includes state flexibility. and mo brooks should have embraced that and said im a republican, and i want state flexibility. boehner was the champion at setting the deadline and forcing members to get to yes by then, you have to set a deadline. >> paul ryan doesnt have the big stick, though, to do that. theyre not saying a word now. and what that says to me is they know it will die in the senate, and theyre not saying a word because they know it isnt even close to getting a vote in...