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Even though the house still provided for some of these payments going forward to a certain year stoppage. if they want to provide for the payments as part of a larger bill, that s fine. we welcome that. we supported the house bill. it s not that we dislike these payments as part of a system to repeal obamacare, but right now you don t have that. it comes back to the point i just made. why are you giving the insurance companies a better deal than the people on obamacare? because the people will get a worse deal if you don t give these payments, isn t it as simple as that? the people have a bad deal the way it is. the simple way to fix this, is to get rid of it, not continue to throw bad money over good. but you don t have the votes. what we re saying is don t give up. yes, you can continue to work on tax reform. we want you to. we re down on the hill, mr. m. ....
Coverage yesterday, last week. i live in a state, i used to be on obamacare that only has one provider. our premiums have gone through the roof. all of those promises made about obamacare did your state accept the medicaid expansion money? we did not. you see what i m saying? you don t think that factors into why the market became destabilized? not at all. why not? the market became destabilized because the system is broken and they couldn t figure out a way to bring market forces to bear in the insurance business. what does that mean? when has that ever worked in the insurance world? when have we ever seen that this free enterprise notion makes things cheaper for people when it comes to health insurance, people crippled by the cost before the aca. you know that. i d love to have a long conversation about what was broken with health insurance before obamacare and what continues to be broken with insurance with obamacare. it s one of the few things you buy that you rea ....
We hope that address that before they leave for the august recess. that doesn t mean you can t continue to talk about health care reform. i was encouraged to hear lindsey graham has been talking with his colleagues and the white house about ideas he has on new ways to replace obamacare. it s not that we just wanted to work on that by itself. we just don t want them to give up. we haven t given up on trying to repeal and replace. we don t think they should either. do you think the president will enable, to the extent he controls the csr payments to the markets so they stay stabilized. we said from the very beginning that we would look at that on a month by month basis. that has not changed. aren t you encouraging insurers to raise premiums because of the uncertainty? chris, we re having the exact same conversation we had 30 seconds ago. if you re holding them ....
The president s base on the right. the new york times reporting this morning that the department of justice is considering suing colleges and universities for affirmative action policies they say may discriminate against white students. the administration looking at a trade case against china as well as a skill-based immigration policy. let s bring in the panel, cnn politics reporter and editor at large chris cillizza and cnn political analysts david gregory and john avlon. david gregory, the president saying allow the aca to implode, arguably a violation of law, arguably a violation of his constitutional duty. but certainly bad politics as viewed in the eyes of his own policy members. what s the play? republicans realize a failure to make good on the pledge to repeal and replace obamacare leaves them vulnerable because so many conservatives around the country don t like obamacare, don t like the federal government s role in the health ....
Of statutes that enable the aca, for the president to say let the markets implode. in a minimum it s insensitive. at a maximum, it may be illegal. what s wrong with the senate saying, we re not going to do that, people can get hurt. we have to shore up the markets which includes the payments that the president is dangling over their heads. people are getting hurt now. the way to fix that is not by bailing out the insurance companies. these cost sharing reduction payments are payments to the insurance companies in order to get them to support obamacare in the first place. the president s attitude is fairly simple. if people are suffering, and they are, and they will continue to suffer because we have not repealed or replaced obamacare, why shouldn t insurance companies similarly suffer? that s his point. i don t think that s an unfair or unreasonable position for the president of the united states to take. why isn t it unreasonable when you know the difference between the consumer ....