Page 2 - Essential Benefit News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

And for the people across the country it's not a game. you see the picture in the rose garden you realize who it is that is celebrating this and then hear that it's the 13 white boys, sorry to say it that way, that are going to be doing this in the senate. i am very concerned. we lost the essential services package in the house so that pregnancy is not -- delivering a baby, having maternal ben if is is no longer an essential benefit. mental health, substance abuse. these are real issues in everyday lives and these guys don't live these kinds of issues every day. one of the reasons that i feel ...

Mental health and prescription drugs. republicans argued eliminating that essential benefit would reduce premiums and give consumers more choice. imagine you are in your 50s and you don't need maternity coverage. this was not in the original bill because republican leaders cans pass the senate by simple majority vote. reconciliation limited to budget items. republicans fear it is harder to argue this as a budget matter. >> how do the benefits make it to the table? it was a concession from the white house and republican leadership at the end of the very long stalemate with the white house and t...

Letting down the constituency if they don't do a lot more. >> we view this as the crisis that's facing our nation. >> why not make the insurance companies help people who are addicted? obamacare did that. that was positive and taking that away from us, why? >> we have not changed. we have not changed any essential benefit, not one in our plan going forward. what you're speaking about is a medicaid expansion piece but we're not changing any essential benefit at all. >> another question. you're going to spend billions and billions of dollars on a wall to keep out drugs but people are getting add...

Messesith the brain. you can't just say stop taking it. you can't, and they're switching to heroin, but it's hard to imagine because it's cheaper than the opioids. >> and i appreciate your work on it, again i look at your budget and the president's budget. i don't see a lot of the stuff that he talked about. i don't see a big commitment on opioids, don't you think republicans are letting down their constituents if they don't do a lot more? >> no, i don't. >> why not make the insurance companies him people wy ies hel addicted? obamacare did that. >> we have not changed any essential benefit, no...

Now we have millions more who have the essential benefit of mental health. that essential benefit is going to be cut with this bill and mental -- states will n have the option not the guartee, they will t have the guarantee because states will have the option to choose mental health or not and that's not right. >> congressman, thank you so much for your help this morning. probably want a cup of coffee before you head back in. >> i will. >> next president trump, he's doing his best to whoo conservative critics, one of them he spoke to yesterday will be joining us. what is president trump willin...