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I want to go now to fred abby. he was a reagan official who worked on making katy's waiver a fixture in our health care system. can you explain through this history how it allowed for more home health care through this government program? >> well, ari, president reagan challenged the department of health & human services where i was a part of, to come up with a solution and the tradeoffs that needed to be made in the policy are very similar to what they are today. the reagan tenets were find the policy that would preserve the family, would preserve and defend the sanctity and dignity of human ...
The state flexibility there would be no protections for the most vulnerable individuals today. >> fred, stay with me. i want to add in our conversation -- because you got the aen hent h-- andy, your vie we're discussing here. >> well, thanks for having me on, ari. i think generally speaking in health policy, you try to cover more people with more services, or you try to reduce costs. the nice thing about a home and community-based service program is it really does both. the funny thing about the senate bill right now is it does neither. 22 million people lost coverage, and insurance premiums a...
Public poll after public poll, senator after senator weighing in on these things, it is starting to unravel. it is starting to fall apart. he needs to realize that what he's doing is not hitting the mark of what either he said or what the american public are asking for. >> and, fred, since you, like andy, have worked so intimately on this. what do you think the most important thing the public should understand about medicaid and medicare as we look to these potentially drastic cuts? >> in the medicaid program about 30% ever it are the most vulnerable of our population. and lumping them in toge...