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Dressed to go to work in the morning. think about that difference in your life. that's what medicaid pays for millions of people in this country. today that's what this was about. and you know, there's -- it's this story obviously we've known this was coming. this is a wave we've seen building in terms of what was going to happen. along side health care, there's a ton going on in american politics, a ton that is bizarre and riveting about this new presidential administration obviously. but one of the important things to know about this administration for everything that's gone on so far, is th...

Think the thing is over or do they keep pushing it and working it? >> i think that's a great question. i imagine that senator mcconnell doesn't think that he gets more votes over the 4th of july break, and he would be right. if this thing is still out there stinking in the american public over the course of the break, he's not coming back with more than he started the break with. we're having to vote one way or the other next week, which means that the next four or five days are mission critical. that if you have any time to spare to try to influence these members, now is the time to do it. i ...

Period for considering this is so compressed that even at this late date, which we're told is less than a week before they will vote on it, there's no actual language of an actual bill. for people who don't care about congressional procedure and don't know how these things are normally done, why is the way they're doing its so materially important here? >> i think there's two answers to that question. the first is there is actually a practical benefit that comes from having open hearings. you hear from experts, you hear from people in the field. you have the chance to bounce your ideas off of ...

Generation. he was wrong. it was a lot more than that. >> in terms of the procedural stuff going on here, one of the things that's interesting, we don't know what the political impact will be, is how secretive the republicans have been. about trying to do this very big thing. back in 2009 and 2010 when president obama was passing obamacare, it was consuming. it went on for months and months. and they had hearings after hearings and everybody knew what was in the bill and that's part of why there was a big fight about it. the republicans are trying to do the exact opposite of that. does that ch...

And the big health bill that the republicans in the senate unveiled today takes a meat ax to that health insurer. more than anything else it does. if you want to know one thing about it. let's say you want to know one good thing and one bad thing. the good thing for rich people is that it's a huge tax cut for rich people. that's one really good thing. the bad thing is it takes, as i said, a meat ax to that one health insurance provider, biggest health insurance provider in the country. singles it out above everything else related to health care in this country. cuts more than $800 billion out ...