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I was struck by that, both questions from the white house press corps were about obamacare and healthcare, what the president's plans are. twice in two days, bret, he has said he's got the votes. listen to this. >> so we feel we have the votes. we will be doing that after the taxes. in the meantime, we're involved with a budget. >> dana: so, bret, just coming across the fires is that senators alexander and murray have come up with a bipartisan deal that they say can actually be a short term fix. is that what the president's talking about? >> well, i think the biggest news here. there's two dif...

Affordable care act's contraceptive mandate and one day after president trump announced that he'd reached out across the aisle to senate minority leader chuck schumer the try to cut a deal on a health care bill. he was asked about that as he was leaving the white house yesterday, the president said he proposed a temporary deal, one that involved the federal government handing over money for health care directly the states in the form of block grants. listen. >> so, basically, if we could do a one-year deal or a two-year deal as a temporary measure, you'll have block granting, ultimately, to th...

And he has indicated here and there that he wants to keep preexisting conditions that he wants to keep other key elements of obamacare. some of that is missing in these other bills. >> they are at the both speaker ryan and majority leader mcconnell said they want to push that to the states. it will be guaranteed from the states and probably not from the federal government. >> there is another thing too. there is the matter of medicaid expansion. all of these are proposals block grant to the medicaid to the states. but some of the governors, republican governors who have embraced medicaid expan...

Have a high risk pool for the sick, medicaid block grants, bol sterg the health savings accounts, capping employer-sponsored plans. what do you quibble with there? >> the first thing is if you block grant medicaid, that creates a serious problem. that is not a solution to anything. it's mostly just a way of cost shifting. taking off the federal expenditures and putting responsibility on the states and one of the serious problems of block granting is say the economy like in 2008 and 2009 goes into a tailspin, lots of people become unemployed, more people need medicaid coverage, and yet the stat...

Block granting, repealing obama care, voucherizing medicare, doing all of the things he does, in comparison to the debt crisis, all of that is fine, moderate, it is just a necessary painful medicine for a deep disease. if we don't have a debt crisis though, if the whole thing is not about deficit reduction but about making radical conservative reforms to the government, nobody likes it. that's what paul ryan found out in the first 10, 12, 15 years of his career when he didn't have the deficit reduction thing and pushed social security privatization and unfunded prescription drug benefit. nobod...