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Saying the assad regime would pay a heavy price. good morning. it's tuesday, june 27th. with the grinding down, the cbo's assessment of the senate health care plan is making it that much harder for republicans to push it through. the nonpartisan group found that over the next decade 22 million people -- fewer people would be uninsured compared to obama care, and that deficit savings would largely come on the back of cuts in medicaid, spending $772 billion. of the 15 million people who would no longer be on medicaid as a result of the new law, the cbo forecast most would not purchase private ...

Insurance and by the way, my family now who might be struggling with drug issues or might be dealing with special needs issues, we now are paying more for that. >> steve, this plan, the senate plan reduces medicaid spending by $772 billion over a decade. we've asked senator of senator in support plan what happens to the people covered by medicaid in a state like ohio when it's rolled back. the answer is they'll have more access to plans. we're going to create a marketplace where they have access. maybe that's true in the long term. in the short term, what happens to these people on medicaid? >...

Democrats point out that the increase is $772 billion less than what medicaid would have had under obamacare. the blue line on the chart is spending under obamacare. the red line is the senate bill. got that? a $772 billion decrease. so big cut. end of debate. so democrats also point out more than 2 million recipients will no longer be eligible for medicaid and that the senate bill neither keeps up with inflation nor with the rising coughs of health care. so who is right? "your salary is $50,000. your boss promises it will be $100,000. did you get a $50,000 raise or a cut? are you going home t...

Be in than to have obamacare eviscerated, which is what the republicans are trying to do right now. that would send us back to square one. right now, it's not perfect, but it's a lot better than the day before obamacare was on the books. we have tens of millions of additional people who have coverage, and that coverage is guaranteed. and so i would prefer to be trying to solve this the problem. from that perspective than after having $772 billion in medicaid funding taken out of the system which then makes it almost impossible to solve the problem at all. >> i appreciate that. someone mentione...

Republicans. >> very quickly, on medicaid cuts, the house bill that narrowly passed, the cbo estimated it would cut by $800 billion over a decade. the senate legislation, the kprrcbo now says $770 -- $772 billion cut over the next ten years. i asked the question because the president has promised during the campaign that he would not cut medicaid at all. >> reporter: yeah, look, republicans will say this is a reduction on spending on the current baseline and therefore it is not a cut. but it is a change in how much money would be spent over the course of the next decade. it is also worth notin...