Tuck forget tax relief if you are well to do it reinstates 3. 8 surtax on investment income. Number three, medicaid funding gets tweaked. Probably not as much as liberals want. But this an additional 45 billion for opioid treatment. Welcome all. So today we heard mcconnell say its time for the senate to rise to the occasion and hes chiding republicans to get in line and support this bill. They are voting next week. My question, can he even get it to the floor . Hes got sack strong argument. Get it to the floor then vote it down. His margin of error for getting it to the floor is zero. Rand paul and Susan Collins said they are not going to vote for that. Gerri we have been through two iterations of this bill. More are promised. We even have Lindsey Graham with his own new idea. The bills are a dime a dozen. Thats right. We had seven years to figure this one out. There was a failure of leadership that there wasnt a sitdown meeting right after the election to say here is our timeline, let. Make it happen. They have to have 20 hours of debate and unlimited amendments. I think the thing thats interested in this debate, nobody is talking about something they should be talking about. We are talking about lowering premiums and deductibles, we are not talking about lowering costs. Gerri we are going to break this down. Last week the white house said, hey, the democrats are much more organized when it comes to healthcare. Why are we . What did you make of those comments and is it hurting the efforts to bring this bill forward . Its been hurting the effort the entire year. They ran on Obamacare Repeal over and over again. They must have expected this moment would never come before us. What they should have done is put that repeal bill on the floor. It would have been interesting to see them take up that same bill. The democrats beat the republic doonts punch a few years back. Now, you see where this debate has come seven months into the republican control. Gere require gerri its 7 years that they have had to get their act together. What i found interesting when i raid when i read the details about this. They stride scrub the mean out of it. There was a comment from the president saying he thought the Senate Proposal was mean. A lot of that is democratic talking points. To neds point, there is a lot of disagreement among republicans how to reform the healthcare system. There were tons of meetings, the problem is people disagree. This bill is attempting to commit the different factions. Gerri i think we also have to focus on getting healthcare to the people. If you cant afford it you wont get services. And thats the big frustration folks have. Tell me what you mean by fixing the cost. Its pricing transparency. What are the actual costs of procedures. They will say we are going to require people posting what they actually cost. Insurance Companies Want costs to go up. He want a low vol, high margin approach. We wanted a high vol, low margin approach to benefit the American People. We could see the American People walk away as the been fish airies of this instead of the Insurance Companies. It looks like insurers will get baimed out. Thats not the right thing. Is it . No. I think what ned is touching on. So much of that conversation about lowering healthcare cost has nothing to do with health insurance. It has to do with the supply of healthcare, Nurse Practitioner licensing. So much of it doesnt have anything to do with insurance. We have come so far down this road putting an insurance card in everybodys pocket and losing sight of the costs. Gerri a lot of these networks the choices are so the narrow, sow small, maybe one doctor or hospital, you are not getting what you paid for. At the end of the day its about repealing and replacing obamacare. Its not about reforming every single aspect of the healthcare system. We dont want a single bill thats 5,000 pages to reform every aspect of the healthcare system. Does it do a perfect job . No. But does it deserve to have a hearing on the senate floor . Yes. Gerri one of the constant complaints i hear from the republicans is their original bill in the senate was completely misunderstood. They were cutting millions of people off at the pass. They were restraining the growth of medicaid over time. Under obamacare, medicaid was going to expand by 231 billion. And they were going to expand medicaid by 333 billion. Just because somebody has medicaid coverage doesnt mean they are getting care. Over 30 of doctors in the United States do not accept medicaid patients. Why are we putting more money into a dysfunctional system of medicaid instead of going for real reform. Part of that debate is between the more liberal part of the senate about this medicaid sphangs expansion. I think expansion into a failing system doesnt make sense to me at all. Gerri how do they square the circle . Getting enough republican votes is almost impossible, right . You are right. This is the political reality. You have to get this to the floor. 20 hours of debate, unlimited amendments. This will have to go back to the house. What we are debating and talking about right now, the fine bill that hopefully will get to Donald Trumps desk wont look much like what we are talking about right now. Gerri is it going to make it to the floor and can it pass the senate . They might as well have a debate on the floor. But i agree with ned, the fine bill wont look much like this one. We would like to see this move further to the right and pass a true repeal of obamacare with this once in a lifetime opportunity. Gerri can it make it . I think it can. 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We are finding a tremendous amount of doctor corruption and doctor abuse where the doctors are giving 60 oxycontin and 60 vicodin for a few days of pain relief. There is such a tremendous amount of abuse. Im happy to hear that the government is cracking down on the corrupt providers. Here in los angeles its not just the medical providers who are corrupt. There are so many independent providers, Treatment Centers, outpatient programs that are involved in all of this corruption. And the Hills Treatment Center where i work, we are trying to stop this within the industry because everybody is suffering because of this corruption. Gere require heard and interesting fact i want to share. In 2015 there were enough opioids prescribed in america to medicate the entire population of mayor cap for three weeks. I want you to hear what Jeff Sessions had to say about this imrakdown. Heres what he had to say. Trusted medical professionals have chosen to violate their oath and put greed ahead of their patients. Some have made their practices into multi Million Dollar criminal enterprises. They seem oblivious to the disastrous consequences of their greed. Their actions enrich themselves often at the expense of the taxpayer, but also feed addictions and cause addictions to begin. The consequences are real. The emergency rooms, jail cells, futures lost and grave yards are the results. Gerri these are taxpayer dollars being misused. Its us paying the tab. These are vulnerable people. These are people who are addicted and they are being preyed upon by someone you should trust. But one thing want to mention. There are so many good people in the medical system, and we cant overlook that. This is a behavior healthcare problem, not just a Law Enforcement problem. Gerri they had health and Human Services there, not just justice on the scene. It was interesting to me, the Opioid Crisis is a decade or so old. We are just now getting down to what may be at the center of all this. Why has it taken so long . Well, you know, i started shooting heroin at 16, and that was 50 years ago, now im clean and sober off heroin for 32 years. The supply of heroin when i was using it in d. C. , new york and urban centers, now it is in every suburb, every small town, vermont, ohio, it has spread like cancer throughout the whole country. Not only that, but the Insurance Companies are not giving the Treatment Team or the Treatment Centers enough time inpatient to deal with the heroin addict. We are only getting 1520 days inpatient to turn somebodys life around from the Insurance Companies. Its the government, its the Insurance Companies, the providers. Gerri john, you wanted to jump in on this . Therefore there is money wherever there is money there will be corruption. 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I would love to see this fixed for the sake of American Workers who need those jobs. But how likely is it . It has to be fixed. I think one of the reasons President Trump is president is because of this issue. America entered terrible trade deals around the world, but none worse than china. Its not free trade. They are not nearly as open to our products and services as we are to theirs. President trump ran on this mantra well reinvigorate the American Worker and work from a position of strength. China needs us much more badly than we need them. Gerri at the end of the day they have to sell in the u. S. Because we have this Huge Consumer market. When you pull apart the trade deals, these things are like 40 years old. They are archaic. Dont we need to update these and get something for u. S. Workers . Good evening to you, gerri. Yes, we do. Nafta, you are talking well over 20 years ago. Technology has changed, the world has evolved. The world marketplace is entirely different now than it was then. We need to look at these and say are these the way they are constituted in the best interests of the United States and the American Worker . I would argue they are not. Donald trump got elected in part by saying the chinese are manipulating currency. So yes i agree with steve, we have the leverage. If the question is, is the congress willing to negotiate and will the president enforce it. Gerri there was an amazing story about apple in china. Apple is the company that wouldnt help us getting information about people who are trying to harm us. This company over and over again saying privacy of its customers more important than. This is the height of hypocrisy. I actually agree with apple. I lean libertarian. Sow i was sympathetic to their argument. But when chinese money is on the line, privacy doesnt matter. They are willing to get into bed with the chinese. This very day, Nobel Peace Prize winner died in a chinese prison. Thats the kinds of country we are talking about in china. Thats who apple decided to get involved with. Beijing, let many not worry about their human rights. Gerri apple needs to remember who made them sow wealthy and who made them all that money. Thats just one womans view. A new report revealing it was the Obama Justice department that allowed the russian lawyer who met with donald trump, jr. Into the u. S. Well have more details. You will want to hear this. Coming up. N hour with. Gocentral from godaddy. Type in your idea. Select from designs tailored just for you and publish your site with just a few clickseven from your. Mobile phone. The internet is waiting start for free today at godaddy. Gerri President Trump defending his son donald trump, jr. , again for the controversial meeting he held with a russian attorney during the Campaign Season last year. Take a listen. Most people would have taken that meeting. It is called Opposition Research or Even Research into your opponent. I have many people, only been in politics for two years, i had many people call up, oh, gee, we have information on this factor or this person or frankly hillary. That is very standard. Gerri president mounting a Strong Defense of his son but according to the hill, it turns out that the russian lawyer was initially cleared into the United States by Justice Department under extraordinary circumstances. Now this revelation means, guess what . It was the Obama Justice department that enabled the newest and moss intriguing figure in the russia trump investigation into the country. Oh, by the way without a visa. Here with me amy holz, ned ryun and ron christie. Start with you. What do you make of that last detail it was actually the Obama Administration gave her clearance. This is extraordinary, gerri. It was extraordinary. This woman was not cleared to come into the United States. Had to apply for waiver to come here for a court case she said she was here to litigate. Lo and behold she over stayed the waiver allowed her to be in the flights. I have questions why the administration decided to let her