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People in the end. the real problem are the wild cards, the john mccains, who have proven impervious. we have a graphic we can put up. you mentioned mccain. johnson, daines, collins, corker. who do you see as a big deal? johnson is worried about small businesses taxed at an individual rate, sounds like they re dealing with that. susan collins and mccain are big wild cards because of people being hurt by higher premiums. mccain doesn t like the process. he is someone you cannot predict at this point. if he doesn t like the process and they re jamming it through he ll just vote no. we saw that on health care. if you sincerely care about the deficit and the data, this bill ain t for you. it s a total contradiction to those principles. that s why senator corker and james lankford are given a ....
Gathered in rhode island, the summer meeting, they are going to discuss concerns with vice president mike pence who will arrive at the conference this afternoon. joining us live from the conference site, democratic governor steve bullock of montana. walk us through what this bill means to you. montana is a state with quite a few rural hospitals. stephanie, montana is a state where i got medicaid expansion through a 2/4 legislation, did it in a way to bring folks forward. what we see is 79,000 more have coverage. we re 20% uninsured in montana in 2013. down to 7%. we re a state of 147,000 square miles. you lose the rural communities if you lose rural hospital. uncompensated care has gone down. this bill ain t a heck of a lot better than what we saw before. at the ends of the day, that medicaid program that now covers in total about 130,000 ....