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if you're in a state which is not expanded medicade, you're gonna do great. all those lower north carolina texans, virginians, floridians will have dollars in their state to get health insurance that they currently do not have. if you're a state which has expanded medicade we do our best to hold you harmless. we run it through the chip program. i hear no one complaining about the chip program. the chip program is something on a bipartisan basis has been recognized to be an effective way to provide access and quality care to those in need. we con patient protection. whatever waiver a state wishes to have, they must ensure the secretary that they continue to provide adequate and affordable coverage for those with preexisting conditions. that is our back stop. we preserve mental health parity. ultimately we give the dollars to the state for the state to be
battle the opioid epidemic, and the ability to buy cheaper plans with less coverage for those who want it, while conservatives hope will bring down premium costs. maine senator susan collins doesn't want to allow mitch mcconnell to even bring the bill to the floor, tweeting a short time ago, quote, still deep cuts to medicade in senate bill. will vote no on mtp, the motion to proceed. ready to work with gop and dem colleagues to fix flaws in the affordable care act. that makes it impossible to update, improve, revise the bill, if you don't even allow the majority leader to bring it to the floor. after having some healthcare struggles of his own, house speaker paul ryan said he's staying out of it. >> as tempting as it is to comment on a sense deliberations are in process, i want to give them the space to get their job done. we have a promise to keep. we kept that promise in the house. >> reporter: ryan's counter part took this swipe at the updated
bill. >> this senate bill now that is circulating does even deeper damage to americans with medicade. president has called the house bill mean. this is even meaner. republicans will do all of this to damage seniors, children and working families just to hand tax breaks to the richest. >> reporter: one to watch, ohio senator rob portman who said he is undecided on the motion to proceed. if portman decides he's a no on that procedural vote, then the senate is stuck again. harris? >> harris: wow. i mean, you've heard it a couple days in a row. we've had lawmakers saying, nope, they're going to get beyond this point. we'll watch it as it happens. one of the four missing men now confirmed dead. he was 19 years old. his remains were identified after they were found in a mass grave. investigators say they're working to identify other remains discovered on this pennsylvania farm. a person of interest is now in custody and could face serious
consciences. what did you promise the american people? what did you promise people who supported you? >> reporter: he did not want to be rushed into voting but now it sounds like he's getting on board, getting ready for the possibility of a vote next week. harris? harris: so the obstruction charge and healthcare, what are democrats saying in response to it? >> reporter: welsh democrats are firing back. they say republicans have been working on healthcare reform since january, have not been able to get it done. they say it's not democrats getting in the way. they say it's the substance of the republican healthcare plan. >> two weeks isn't gonna solve their problems. the way they can solve their problem is very simple. get rid of all the tax cuts to the rich. get rid of the cuts to medicade. and work with us to improve the existing system. >> reporter: schumer fired back at mitch mcconnell, the majority leader, ab the obstruction charge saying republicans probably do not want to go home and face their constituents in august.
that many people understand the intricate details of this bill and how it's different from the house and people have lives to live. they're not able to study this stuff all day like we do. this doesn't ring true to me. >> well, the polls show that we now have a low of 12%. that's the number, 12% of americans support this. i think -- >> melissa: my point is they don't know what it is. leslie, do you think that they really understand enough of it to say -- 11% may say they support it because the rest are like, i don't really know what's there so i can't say i support it. >> no question that they're not gonna know as much as the three of us. however, they do know when the cbo says, look, 26% decrease in medicade by 2026. then has more information showing the longer this goes on, you then have a 35% decrease by 2036. they understand less people and more people getting kicked off. they also understand that
they call it the grass eater movement. the men would rather stay home and play video games. it sounds farfetched. but there's a report out just two days ago under scores this. i'll give you a key stat. recreational computer time is up 45% for this group. overall leisure time is only up 40%. they don't go the work. they stay home and play video games. >> melissa: that's are people that are of prime working age, 25-54. they are not disabled. and they are on medicade. they are not working. this was -- from peter cope, who wrote this, thinks a better long term solution would be eliminate all forms of public support except for those who are unable to work and eliminate all poverty programs since they have not reduced poverty since they were established in 1965. the argument against that would be, what about people trying to
obamacare went into effect. the gop bill only has $2 billion ear marked to treat opioid addiction. senator portman, along with west virginia senator shelly moore want at least $45 billion allocated to the opioid crisis. but south carolina senator lindsey graham said you can give away the house to just a few senators. listen to him. >> more money for opioids might help the problem that some senators have, changing the growth rates of medicade to make them a little more generous might help some. but if you do too much of that, you're gonna lose other people. >> reporter: studies show that half of those that died from things like a heroin overdose started using prescription opioids in the form of painkillers. julie. >> julie: trace gallagher, thank you. whether you love it or hate it or can't get enough of it, olive garden's famous food could soon be delivered fresh to your door.
that's about equal to the number of people who were killed in traffic accidents. and according to the national institutes of health between 2010 and 2015 diagnosis for opioid addiction went up more than 500%. but treatment and the delivery of medicine only went up 65%. the problem is especially bad in the southeast and midwest. in 2015, the states with the highest drug overdose deaths were virginia, with more than 41 out of 100,000 people dying. new hampshire second. kentucky and ohio tied for third. which is why ohio gop senator rob portman said quoting here, i continue to have real concerns about the medicade policies in this bill especially those that impact drug treatment at a time when ohio is facing an opioid epidemic. what portman is specifically talking about is the gop health bill will phase out the expansion of medicade that, as we know, has exploded since
our governor put out numbers 100,000 people will lose their healthcare if this goes through. if you ask the other states that puts it into the billions. is there an accessible number of people losing coverage to get the greater bill through? >> kwrerpbgs i'm having a little difficulty hearing, but as best i could understand you're looking at how obamacare repeal and replace would affect the state of louisiana and i mean, frankly, louisiana's been one of the hardest hit states in the country by obamacare. their insurance premiums have gone up over 125%. the goal here is to give people in the country choices. no one who currently has medicade will have their benefits cut. we're looking across the board, the healthcare plans that will lower taxes, reduce premiums and offer more choices for people in louisiana and across the country. hopefully that somewhat addressed your question as best
premiums and fleeing providers are coming almost every day. just last friday blue cross blue shield in nebraska announced they are canceling their obamacare catastrophic plans and the only remaining plans -- which were the only plans they currently sell on the exchange. that leaves the entire state with only one choice for choice and that insurer raised rates by 51% last year and is threatening to pull out of iowa completely. with our health care system breaking down around us, this administration is committed to finding a solution. this afternoon vice president mike pence, secretary of hhs services dr. tom price, administrator of the small business administration linda mcmahon and administrator of the centers for medicare and medicade services are holding a listening session with female small business owners to talk ab how we will repeal and replace obamacare with a plan that benefits all americans. tomorrow the president will