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Do enough in terms of medicaid and aging people. lets pop up some of the wording on the screen. governors from ohio, michigan, new mexico, arkansas. it provides almost no new flexibility for states does. not insure the resources necessary to make sure no one is left out and shift significant new costs to states. you said there were more people who wanted to sign this letter? >> no doubt about that. the dirty little secret, a lot of governors, republican and democrat that are not for the bill. th...

Wendell is correct. i was the insurance commissioner in california for eight years. this is not a death spiral at all. however should they succeed with their legislation in which the people that are 40 to 65 years of age are going to pay a whopping big increase in their premiums, you could very well have a death spiral, no doubt about it. rit now, no. there is no death spiral. welfare reform went into place in 1998. there are work requirements. education requirements. there are job preparation r...

Work requirements and education requirements, there are job preparation requirements in the welfare program. the expansion of the medicaid program are for the working poor, working poor. so what are we talking about here? this is just foolish arguments looking for a sound bite that somehow they can hang their repeal of the affordable care act on what is a disaster for 14 million people just nine months from now, 2018, 14 million people will lose their health care. thats a mileage disaster for a ...

Requirements for medicaid recipients who are already the working poor, and essentially making medicaid shrink more. they want black block grants limited and they want no more ability to do the expansion. theyre trying to make the bill crueller. how do they justify that, your colleagues on the other side of the aisle? >> we have the understand and know what the republican party is. theyve never been for the poor and working class. they dont care about these poor people. they want to get rid of me...

>> the cost for republicans is that when you are facing headline where is its clear that your agenda is going to hurt the people who voted for you, thats a really tough moment for you as an elected official. weve seen that in town halls. people are telling elected officials and republicans at town halls they are not supportive of this agenda. for democrats i think its an opportunity to draw a stark contrast between whats being offered by republicans and what democrats stand for. democrats believ...

>> congresswoman maxine waters in characteristic style pulled no bunches on his budget in an interview they will wreak havoc. the representative is learning that donald trump who said he is 100% on board and i tried to call it ryan care, but its trump-ryan care, he is talking about the changes that are work requirements for medicaid recipients who are the working poor. making medicare treat more. they want the block grants to medicate limited and want no more ability to do the expansion. they ar...

They got in 2the 2016 general election. but going forward, i think republicans are best served if they work with democrats to craft something that works for more people than currently. it would be great if people can have port ability, thats what we wanted last time before obamacare came in, if you could take the plan that you had and move it over, people like it when there is less regulation especially small business owners and they arent penalized. personal owners of health care like it when t...

To the vehicle, finding the 3-month-old baby floating insid inside. rescuers pulled the infant out of what the water and perform cpr. it the boy is expected to make a full recovery. >> leland: the presidents budget report is all receiving hearts criticism from democrats. no surprise there, but even some republicans are expressing doubts. the plan boosts spending, but cuts many social programs that rural communities and the working poor to rely upon. ed strong mixed reaction from the media. look ...

Under either current law or the legislation." the non-group market under current law is the health care exchanges under the affordable care act which the seek owe says will probably be stable, not collapse, not go into a death spiral. the cbo explains why those obamacare exchanges will remain stable. subsidies for those buying health care and penalties for those who dont, it stabilizes the market over time. the other thing the seen joe score shows in sharp relief is the staggering distribution o...

The same period. thats a shift from the working poor to the rich. joining me now the former acting administrator for the centers for medicare and medicaid services. andy, lets talk about the death spiral finding, its gotten less attention than it deserves because the cornerstone is we cannot abide the status quo because its imploding. cbo says not true. >> well, youre right, chris, and its not just the cbo. standard & poors came to the same conclusion last winter, so have the society of actuarie...