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The money, you know. that's something we can do in congress. if we did it in a bipartisan way. we were making progress in the senate with alexander and murray, and when the graham/cassidy bill came forward, that halted that. we can go back and put that funding in place, and i don't think the president going after his own party is helpful either. he's alienating them, and i think affecting the ability of both democrats and republicans to sort it out. >> the court did say it's not legal, correct? >> without congressional appropriations. >> he is stopping something which the court determined not ...

Short-term health plans. these are the ones that are not governed by the obamacare standards for minimum care, which is what really has provoked all of the democratic response. the president says bottom line, he wants more people, more access to lower cost healthcare. here's what he said earlier. >> to increase competition, increase choice and increase access to lower-priced, high quality healthcare options. they will have so many options. this will cost the united states government virtually nothing. people will have great, great healthcare. when i say "people", i mean by the millions and mil...

They're not voting for this bill, two republicans, i don't know how they get everybody over. we will get a cbo score on monday, but i want to break down this bill yet further for you because that's what we do here. andy is the former acting administer for in the senators for medicare and medicaid officers. andy, i don't know how much of a chance you've had to look at the revisions to this bill, but the politics aside, the part that garrett is talking about aside, one of the things that will interest most people is that it's got this cruz lee amendment that says that as long as you offer some p...

>> senator barrasso, it may be messy. if the point is to get more people coverage, health insurance, why not let them have more time to sign up? >> it doesn't deal with the issue of actually getting people care. people wanted healthcare reform so they could get the care they need from a doctor they choose at lower cost. what we see is even those signing up are finding out, many of them are seeing higher premiums, can't keep their doctor, can't keep their hospital in the state right next to senator king's in new hampshire, 10 of the 28 hospitals are excluded from all the exchanges in new hampsh...

>> senator barrasso, it may be messy. if the point is to get more people coverage, health insurance, why not let them have more time to sign up? >> it doesn't deal with the issue of actually getting people care. people wanted healthcare reform so they could get the care they need from a doctor they choose at lower cost. what we see is even those signing up are finding out, many of them are seeing higher premiums, can't keep their doctor, can't keep their hospital in the state right next to senator king's in new hampshire, 10 of the 28 hospitals are excluded from all the exchanges in new hampsh...