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Growth, pro worker, comprehensive tax reform and i think my credential on this issue has been consistent about growing the economy. Let me highlight principles that we believe must be adhered to in tax reform. Our number one priority is moving the dial to help the middle class and their families prosper. Creating jobs, boosting wages and giving hard working middle class americans the relief they need to get ahead. The key component to this first test is any tax reform must place workers first. The benefits should not skew towards the wealthy. In fact we believe the wealthy should not receive a...

Thanks for your great reporting on that. joining me to discuss the new republican health care plant canned the america health care act, dr. kavita cabbel and bruce bartlet, who held senior policy roles in the reagan and george h.w. bush administrations. thank you both for your patience and being here. kavi kavita, even republicans said the bill needed fixes. did they fix it? >> no. we still haven't seen details on how we're going to advance care. there are provisions in the bill

Where states have flexibility to charge up to five times higher or even more for the age of a person. so insurance could be way more expensive for a 60-year-old, as you said, than $4,000 a year. >> we're going to talk a little bit more about that in detail. bruce, you tweeted and i want to put it up here, proof that republicans' health care plan stinks is that they plan to pass it without a cbo score, contrary to congressional rules. i just want to get into this for a second. a cbo score is -- everything in congress happens with a cbo score, anything that involves money, so that members of con...

Fast one by doing something in the dead of night while expecting the american people to take their lies as assertions and as facts. and they're not. they're just making things up and playing to their own base. >> bruce, i wanted to talk to you about other things that were going on but at the pace at which things get unrolled in this administration, we haven't had a chance and i hope you'll come back and we'll have the conversation about other matters we were planning to have. kavita patell. she worked on the department. back to that hearing that's under way on capitol hill, the nomination of r...

Think of this is that they will use 2016 spending dollars and the amounts that we're spending last year to determine how much they should spend on medicaid in 2020 and that will dramatically reduce the amount of money that the federal government is giving to the medicaid program. >> that wouldn't work if you' w buys buys can, which haven't gone up in many years. the problem here is those worse off are getting hit a little bit harder. >> and we know. forget obamacare. even before -- people talk about this being a repeal and replacement of obamacare. we're not going backwards. we're making thing...