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Trying to force in one-sixth of our economy remake in a week. from the politics to the policy of it. you talked about trying to bring premiums down. trying to bring insurers back in the market and make health care more affordable. what about the policy of it? does it answer the chief challenges left over from obamacare? >> well, it depends on who you talk to. the critics of the senate bill on the right argue that it doesn't in this regard. that without repealing more robustly a lot of the coverage protections and regulations about how health care functions that exist in the affordable care act...
It with these sorts of changes. there is going to be a robust amendment process once it gets on the floor. under the reconciliation rules which is allowing the republicans to avoid a democratic filibuster, you end up with hundreds of hamilton being proposed in an open -- hundreds of amendments being proposed in an open amendment provides. we call it a vote-a-rama. there are competing forces here. the more pragmatic republicans are concerned about what this is going to do for coverage and coverage protections. the more conservative republicans that want to see a more aggressive repeal of the ob...
Through the house in may, will need to accomplish a number of goals. among them, mollifying concerns from moderates that popular provisions from obamacare, like coverage protections for pre-existing conditions, will remain in place, while at the same time building a framework for a market-based health care system freed from the shackles of government regulation, a necessity to win over conservative house republicans. democrats, who have not participated in the process, remain skeptical that it will happen. >> this is very similar to the house bill, which president trump, of course, celebrated ...
Any women or democrats and has had very little input from the white house. the process, done behind closed doors, has been criticized even by republicans, but those on the working group promise all those fears will go away on thursday. >> a working draft will be released tomorrow. i think all the concerns people have had about the process will evaporate, because i think there'll be unlimited opportunities for people to read it and understand what's in it and then debate it. >> but that unlimited time for review will be brief. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has promised the bill will be...