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look. if you want to sort of unpack this plan is when a president is facing an investigation what you want to do is say the investigation's over there. over here i will go about the business of the american people. the success of that plan means you have to get it right on the execution side. he is in there to handle implementation and to a great degree it is the campaign. in a world where the chips implementation and the ira implementation goes well and skirt the recession and joe biden goes into next winter and early 2024 saying happy days are here again is different than dealing with health care.gov with the investigations going
child care and climate change and health expansion even though they don't have those. that is basically as good as they can get is stay with us it's coming. >> shannon, i think what terry mcauliffe is asking for is, please. don't dysfunction your way out of the election for me. and, look. he has first-hand experience in this. as we mentioned before, in 2013 you had a government shutdown that the congressional republicans engineered. then you had the failure to launch at health care.gov and the washington dysfunction just put a wet blanket on democratic turnout in northern virginia and allowed a guy who had no chance at winning that race ken cuccinelli actually come within three points. >> yes, and we're obviously as you mentioned the whole country in the political universe at least is watching this race as a bellwether to say what it's going to signal for 2022.
the last month of that race it was over in september. he was much too conseconservati right? and then we had this shut down, the missed up rollout of health care.gov. i think the perceived dysfunction of washington right now is not helping him, which is why he went on your show last week? maybe two, and just went off on the whole process, right? he didn't go off on specific ideas, it was the whole process. he has been through it before and it almost cost him against a candidate far less talented then glenn youngkin. >> he endorsed him, but he has run away and trump called him to
schumer's doing it is he wants to save the obamacare subsidies and the president wants a deal on health care in some fashion. it's going to take a long slog to get this lamar alexander and patty murray fix through congress. >> and when you look at the calculus that would have to be made equal, this president continually undercut his leadership has has been said and reported, and if he wants to bring along democrats, fine but the criticism is you also have to bring along key leadership on the republican side to get to that number 60. >> exactly. and frankly, he would have problems reaching either of those goals. looking at this from, say, the perspective of the democrats, and peter touched on this in his report, the trump administration has cut by 90% the budget for doing ads for health care.gov,
jet setter on the taxpayer dime. that seems pretty wasteful right there, especially since his resignation was accepted. but when we think about the check, $51,000 written to pay everybody back, in comparison to what was spent, wouldn't have price have known better as a career politician? someone who raled against, you know, the type of overspending that we witnessed in d.c. for decades? >> yes, he definitely should have known better. but i do want to emphasize as embarrassing and wrong and wasteful as all of this travel was, it is far from, in my view, the worst things that price has been up to. by which i mean deliberately and methodically undermining what is the law of the land, the affordable care act. and we're not even talking about any of the things that he's done there by which i refer to cutting outreach spending, making sure that health care.gov is taken offline for 12 hours a day every sunday during open-enrollment period, using money that's been earmarked for
republicans have concentrated on is the actual are premium. that's the number most health care consumers are aware of, how much they write in that check every month to pay for their insurance policy. and what's less visible are the deductables and the other aspects the noncovered care for which deductionables and preemious don't matter, out of pocket. all of that. when you look at the overall cost of what would be left of health care policies under this new system, that has gone up enormously even in the cases where some of the premiums have gone down. >> yeah, the crucial thing to understand is that when the premiums go down it's only because there is poorer coverage. so if you had a silver plan under obamacare in picking up from health care.gov that 70% of the costs. the proposal would make it so
>> yeah, the crucial thing to understand is that when the premiums go down it's only because there is poorer coverage. so if you had a silver plan under obamacare in picking up from health care.gov that 70% of the costs. the proposal would make it so the standard plan available with coverage would be just over half of your cost coverage. that's a big amount that's really left for you to have to deal with. and that's what hurts people's health. >> and i think this is what mitch mcconnell knew was going to come out in any debate this week. and if the bill comes back to life we'll be hearing a lot more about all the other numbers beyond just the premiums. doctor, thank you for joining us tonight. i really appreciate it. >> thank you. >> "the 11th hour" with brian williams starts now.
focus on the patient, not on above the but on the patie. >> i want to bring in shari isley who voted for president trump in large part because of his promise to repeal obamacare. you have a question, shari? >> yes, and the reason for that is i now don't have health insurance anymore because it went from $1081 last year to $2,132 a month for a family of three. because as you get older it is more expensive in pennsylvania already under obamacare. in 2017, not one plan in pennsylvania offered on the health care.gov website qualified to open a health care savings account, under the new plan, what will the parameters be to be able to save money tax free to help with medical expenses. >> i'm sorry that you've had that challenge, but it's one that we predicted when the law was passed, and you probably
>> for 18 months or so. >> it didn't matter. >> if the opposition is fractured, if he keeps the 46%, it may not be a majority, but it's the biggest piece. if he keeps it. can he get the votes on capitol hill? >> there's a question about the tone and being that ticks surrounding everything. a lot of these moves could have been made without some of the provocative language. some of the sharp edges could have been buffered off. some of the things could have been deferred. there was no reason that immigration order had to be issued, you know, a week into the presidency. it could have been deferred, as jeff was saying, to sometime later on, and instead they decide to rush everything fashd, and sometimes it's important to make a clean entry. think about health care.gov. you know, he may have had a good plan. if you don't come out strong at the beginning, that's all anybody remembers. >> an excellent point. when you say that, it reminds me of what they saidat the homeland security briefing. this will be on the website. explanation will be on our website soon. i think to the point if they had done this more meticulously, you had that briefing at the homeland security. not five days later. you have that day.
executive action the rest of that, repeeling and replacing is going to be left for congress to figure out. joining us, the former ceo of health care.gov kevin kuhnihan. this happens just as the trump administration just pulled i think it was $5 million of ads promoting enrollment. you know you have a republican president, republican administration. why is that upsetting to you? >> the major concern, of course, is that the affordable care act is still the law. it should be administered obviously both with the explicit and implicit provisions of the law as long as it's on the books irrespective of administration. >> you feel like that lack of $5 million in advertising at the end could have a real impact. how? >> for a couple of reasons. one is that many people, like myself, which is they p procrastinate and wait until the last minute. the enrollment ends at midnight tonight. it's the last time people can