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Judged here. i'm looking at a headline. but the reason i find it curiou curious. . totally unaffordable. under the senate bill, he would pay $800 a year. 13,000 to 800. clearly that is a more affordable policy. so why do the coverage numbers not move that much? >> are you saying you just don't accept how many. but there was a blocking up. people are wondering what the defense of this bill has been so far. to address the high health care cost, this bill does make costs to medicaid, yet over weekend,

When you dig deep into the policy both on budget savings and the premiums, you could see positive news that republicans talk about going forward. one of the interesting elements is we talk about politics, we talk about the dynamics inside baseball, what actually matters in the policy. you look at these coverage numbers and you prepare the affordable care act. the affordable care act expanded medicaid in the district of columbia. that covered 22 people on its own. you also have abortion planning. planned parenthood would be defunded for a year. that is a major issue for certain senators. democr...

Here, there's hardly anybody that's out there in public praising this health care bill. it is very difficult to find senators willing to go out and praise it. that's pretty remarkable for a major piece of legislation like this that represents a major campaign promise from the republican party. what's a watch in the next 24, 48 hours, look for that score. if it comes in showing they are saving more money than they expect. that might give them more leeway, moderate republicans, hey, we can give you more billions of dollars to help opioids. that might help on that front. of course if they get cov...

Die if you cut people from medicaid. that means you are killing, killing them. >> republican leaders say don't believe the doomsday predictions. >> in all honesty, we have to get real about it because we've got a lot of things the federal government has to do besides health care. if we go that route, that's the only thing the federal government is going to be basically doing. >> on the coverage numbers, republican leaders will tell you that's because people would no longer have a gun to their heads with the government telling them they must buy insurance. republican leaders would suggest that ...

The cbo score today? >> i think cbo reports something very similar to the house version of this bill. the coverage numbers will be better, the premiums lower, the senate will have constructs up up front money. this will be a bill that relieves a great burden on the economy. it will put the budget on a more sound path. right now they're causing trillion dollar deficits, and it will target the most needy americans. >> jonathan, how about you. >> it is best to say it will be slightly more positive. it is not saying much, and once again look, the bottom line is let's not listen to the gibberish yo...