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Fraction of the cost, and it s going to be so easy. we re going to come up with health care plans that will be so good and so much less expensive both for the country and for the people, and so much better. i m going to take care of everybody. i don t care if it costs me votes or not. everybody will be taken care of better than they re taken care of now. while campaign trump was saying all that, another candidate was saying things republican audiences did not want to hear. i have not set up an exchange. he knows i m not for obamacare and never have been. but do you know who expanded medicaid five times to try to help the folks and give them opportunity so they could rise and get a job? president ronald reagan. the fact of the matter is we expanded to get people on their feet, and once they re on their feet, we re giving them the training and efforts they need to get work and pull out of that situation. ....
Yorker. i know you have studied the effects of having health coverage on long-term health what do we know. what we ve learned is a few things. almost immediately upon getting coverage people start to get access to primary care, preventative care, also needed medicines, more likely to get a regular source of care abneeded smgss and chronic illness treatment. the result is they have improved health pretty quickly. overall health and get better outcomes. then four or five years into it. we see substantial and growing reductions in mortality. about a 6% reduction in mortality at five years. and that s a big deal. it s easy to talk about elements of the republican bill that are the maef losses of coverage, just people going from being well covered in effect under obamacare to nothing. there is 22 million of those. ....
Republican party, and if it fails, it will not go away, which is why those who oppose it must keep their feet on the gas. he comes up with his own promise to his party in the senate which is, i will move on. he told them from the outset that he was willing to lose. he will move on no matter what the vote was. he now has a pressure he created for himself, which is the pressure to move on. right. and also, at some point, he has to move on. they have to pass a bill to raise the debt limit, they have to pass spending bills for the next fiscal year. there are other things that really are must pass that the senator has to do. at some point they will at least have to set health care aside. the other thing is insurers are going through the process of setting premiums for next year. they re spooked by health care in the market. the longer that goes on, the uglier the insurance situation gets for them and the republicans have to take care of that. ....
Everything has come down to a plan with heart, and a plan with heart for him is throw more money at it. i m going to take care of everybody, he said during the campaign, and replace obamacare with some huge and terrific. the devil is in the details. in 1993, the clintons, mr. and mrs., come into the office and say, we re going to start with health care reform. the senator from new york, pat moynihan, your friend and my friend, said don t do this, it s complicated, it will bog you down. it never even came to a vote in a congress controlled by the democratic party. george w. bush makes a big entitlement change, a big health care change with medicare part d which was popular because no one paid for it. it was an entitlement program without a funding stream. barack obama comes in, and he knows he s talking to a country where 85% of the republican ....
That he was willing to lose. he will move on no matter what the vote was. he now has a pressure he created for himself, which is the pressure to move on. right. and also, at some point, he has to move on. they have to pass a bill to raise the debt limit, they have to pass spending bills for the next fiscal year. there are other things that really are must pass that the senator has to do. at some point they will at least have to set health care aside. the other thing is insurers are going through the process of setting premiums for next year. they re spooked by health care in the market. the longer that goes on, the uglier the insurance situation gets for them and the republicans have to take care of that. thank you for being here. coming up, can president trump convince republicans to do anything? does he have any real power of persuasion with the congress? and later, the trump administration s chaotic foreign policy got even more confusing when the white house surprised ....