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>> would republicans, do you think, be in the mood to negotiate as this bid collapses as schumer is proposing there? >> they shouldn't. democrats steam rolled republicans when they passed it and this bill, i mean, this law is failing. it is resulting in increased premiums and less coverage. so i don't think that republicans should cave to chuck schumer's wishes. i think this bill, the bill that's pending right now, we are not sure whether the senate will proceed to the house passed reconciliation measure and the reconciliation measure or some permutation of the two, and what we do know is all ...

Centrist republicans like susan collins. you have opposition from conservatives like rand paul, and this point we don't know when mcconnell can repeal and repeal and replace the current health care law. at this point the votes aren't there. something's got to change in the next 48 hours for him to advance the wall. >> a lot of pressure over the next two days because senate democratic leader chuck schumer is pretty adamant that it's not going anywhere and he talked about it this morning about what would then be triggered. take a listen. >> so the first things we're going to propose -- and the r...

Billions of dollars in this program, the one thing is give the states, give us flexibility, this is something we argued, let us bring our best practices together but there's billions we could save in different programs as i mentioned on generic drugs we could do and the medicare program as well as a post hospital stay, to bundle those services and the medicare, but remember on the medicaid, who are we taking care of? we're dealing with the elderly, the disaged, pregnant women and children. core constituents of people who need quality health care. the problem you have today is you're exactly ri...

Cost sharing for the plans, make the subsidies available for the individuals and continue the reinsurance program for our sickest population and do not come off the individual mandate. we need everybody in this program for it to be successful as other nations around the globe have done. >> governor mcauliffe thank you for sharing your perspective. he echoes what we heard from president trump at times, which is everybody has to be covered. >> it's true but you have this pushback of you can't force people to buy it. i know the supreme court decided this decision, but politically they'll say if y...

Arkansas, rural arkansas that get most of their budget made up by medicaid reimbursements. do you want this responsibility because it's not a transfer of responsibility, it's transfer of cost. >> well, we want the flexibility to manage the program and when we have that, we're going to save money in terms of which is absolutely necessary. you know, what we have right now is unsustainable. you're taking too great a percentage of the medicaid from the federal government. we can't just have a significant cost shift to the states because that's something we cannot shoulder. so it is a partnership t...