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Votes to get anything done anyway. it could be symbolic in the hours, because it s dead on arrival in the senate as usual. they have to pass a bill. they have made too many promises. there s no what about the idea that some supporters of people funded by the koch said to do this piece by piece by piece? i think that would be smarter. i think there are some things they could do through reconciliation, some things by executive order through tom price. other things that they can do legislatively through the appropriations process, such as risk corridors, the insurance company bailout. that was an appropriation measure. i was involved in it. i know you can do things like that to direct the funding. i do think they have to go home and say, here is what we did to address an issue in which we all ran. do you think the piecemeal idea, the koch brothers may be supporting of it, it will not sell well to those who have been promised we re going to repeal this and replace it? i don t ....
One is there s something called adverse selection when insurance comes in and get a disproportionate about of sick people and not healthy. that s happened in a lot of places. stuart: how do you fix that? a couple ways to fix it. we had a mechanism in the aca called risk corridors, where we had funds to mitigate the insurance companies that did suffer from adverse selection. republicans defunded that. there was no backstop for those insurance companies. you can do reinsurance plans. you can do mandatory enrollment which gets everybody in the pool and that solves the problem. philosophically, republicans don t want to go there. one of the problems we had, our individual mandate was not sufficient to get enough young people in the system and keep them there. so there s a lot of problems in that market. stuart: it s your answer to force more people in, make them do it, raises the fines. ....
And so there are a lot of republicans who might be saying i m against this because it s big government, but they re actually also against it because a lot of their people are going to lose coverage. second problem is it flies totally in the face of president trump s own promises. he kept saying over and over again, i m not going to cut medicaid and medicaid gets cut by $880 billion. i m going to cover everybody. this bill clearly increases the number of uninsured. last problem is a lot of governors don t like it because those medicaid cuts, they re going to have to deal with down the road. all right. so what if nothing were done, if obamacare were just let to go forward as is, what happens to obamacare? what would be the impact on the american people? if the trump administration decided that they wanted obamacare to work, it could work pretty well. there are some problems to iron out, if i were in congress, i d like to fix those risk corridors where the prices get out of whack wh ....
There is no tax reform. not just not pass, not even propose. and you can really sense the uneasy there s not a one-sheeter. there s not three bullets to put on my screen on my show to say this is what the white house is proposing. exactly. as a result, all of these congressional republicans are holding their fire. they re being pounded at the town hall meetings but can t turn around and say, well, this is what we plan to do because apparently they haven t gotten the call from the white house yet. there s two things i wonder about here. how problematic this is, do they have the wherewithal. there s something sort of vaguely comical about bill clinton famous for these long and involved granular wonky speeches, risk corridors and high-risk pools. that seems like completely off the table, right? yeah. yeah. it s not likely. look, trump is at sort of a school house rock level whereas ....
exactly. as a result, all of these congressional republicans are holding their fire. they re being pounded at the town hall meetings but can t turn around and say, well, this is what we plan to do because apparently they haven t gotten the call from the white house yet. there s two things i wonder about here. how problematic this is, do they have the wherewithal. there s something sort of vaguely comical about bill clinton famous for these long and involved granular wonky speeches, risk corridors and high-risk pools. that seems like completely off the table, right? yeah. yeah. it s not likely. look, trump is at sort of a school house rock level whereas clinton and obama were sort of at a dissertation level. i believe the 11 points that the republicans have put out now, he s going to talk about america, making it safe, revitalizing jobs and infrastructure. i think it s going to be a general campaign speech. because as of right now, it ....