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Budget office, that's a nonpartisan ags that's going to come up with a bunch of important estimates on the impact, the financial impact, the impact on coverage of that republican health care plan. the trump administration already preempively suggesting there may be problems. there may be issues with the cbo estimate. they may be anticipating a negative report here. take a listen. some of the prebut thele we've been hearing from the administration. >> if you're looking to the cbo for accuracy, you're looking in the wrong place. >> they work really hard, they do, sometimes we ask them to do stuf...

Not providing appropriate coverage statistics. >> all right. this plan has some medicaid expansion in it to form, although you cap it in certain respects. this plan has tax credits, another name for a subsidy. it's made some on the right say, you know what? this is obamacare-lite. you're essentially accepting the architecture, but just trying to remodel the building. what say you? >> no. absolutely not. in fact, this is a little puzzling because independents and conservatives for decades have said haven't we equalize the tax treatment of the purchase of health care coverage for folks who get i...

Right now. so cbo has been very adept in not providing appropriate coverage statistics. >> all right. this plan has some medicaid expansion in it to form, although you cap it in certain respects. this plan has tax credits, another name for a subsidy. it's made some on the right say, you know what? this is obamacare-lite. you're essentially accepting the architecture, but just trying to remodel the building. what say you? >> no. absolutely not. in fact, this is a little puzzling because independents and conservatives for decades have said haven't we equalize the tax treatment of the purchase of...

to tweak this? >> i'll tell you the plan we have layed out here will not leave that number of individuals uncovered. i think we'll have folks evaluating this and modeling this come out and say, yes, indeed, this plan will in fact cover more individuals than are currently covered remembering right now the trend line is down on the number of individualing being covered. it is not increasing and the cbo estimate five, six, seven years ago when this started, they estimated that over 20 million people would have coverage at the end of the ten-year window. it is about half of that right now. so c...

Today we still do not know whether the plan will cover more or fewer americans or the cost itself and not all are thinking that tomorrow's estimates from the congressional budget office will help. >> in the cbo estimate, five, six, seven years ago when this started they estimated over 20 million people would have coverage. in fact, it is about half of that right now. so cbo has been very adept in not providing appropriate coverage statistics. >> tom price there with that. joining me now, democrat from california. also chair of k-pac. you heard some of the questions about this cbo estimate that...