guest: alex bolton --host: alex bolton with the hill. we appreciate your time. we will bring you over to the house. they are coming in early for the legislative session. gavel to gavel coverage life here on c-span. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] the speaker: the house will be in order. the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. chaplain conroy:, let us pray. we ask your blessing of strength and perseverance that each member might be -- might best serve their constituents and our entire nation. may it be their purpose to see to the hopes of so many

host: alex bolton, what do you make of those comments? alex: i guess she is buying insurance on the individual market and premiums are soaring. and so i don't know exactly , where she is living and how many insurers are offering plans on the obamacare exchange. one of the criticisms of obamacare and the reasons republicans say it is imploding is in, i think 30% of the , counties of the united states or something like that there is only one insurer and insurers are pulling out. the lack of competition means premiums are going up. the problem is you have a lot of sick people on the exchanges. healthier people are not signing up in the numbers anticipated and that is sending up premiums. the reimbursements to insurance companies that were supposed to happen under obamacare to keep costs under control have been curtailed, as the earlier caller pointed out. there was an amendment a few years ago to a spending bill that essentially capped the risk corridor adjustment program. essentially what obamacare reimburse to companies -- insurance compani

alex bolton. what do you know about people who did not have insurance but now have it through the affordable care act? what happens. you know exactly what is going to happen with people who were able to get it through the aca? guest: people will still get tax insurance, but one of the things the senate bill does is it lowers the level at which people are eligible for -- from 400%om the at the federal poverty line, to 350%. the senateolder, bill -- the subsidies are adjusted for people who are older and poorer and live in geographic areas where costs are higher. --is not going to be especially if you are older, it will not be as generous as the affordable care act, which basically says they charge older people three times as much as younger people. the senate bill, let's charge five times -- older people five times as much. the other thing the legislation does is it doubles the amount of money you can put into health so that you can stash money to buy insurance. if you are already sick, you already

alex bolton here to answer them for you. independence (202)748-8002. start dialing in now. at the top of the majornc differences and begin with medicaid. what descendent of hans want to do versus house republicans? >> senate republicans want to delay reducing the federal match for expanded medicaid enrollment under obamacare. so, if a little more generous in the house bill in 2020 with endcap that expended enrollment for the federal government is paying out chairs of the size of the cost for new enrollees in the senate bill would not start to face that out to reduce that federal match until 2021 and would phase it out over three years to 2024. that's for the senate bill is more generous but starting in 2025 the senate bill would adopt a new metric for indexing and elation is less generous in the house bill and medical inflation which is higher than regularand inflation would index it to thee regular consumer price index and that makes an out year's major cuts, hundreds of millions of dollars cuts them according to analysis rising after 25 -- what republicans say is okay, pe

also want to bring in reporter alex bolton with the hill and republican strategist noel, welcome to allf you. jonathan, that mom in pennsylvania says that you can not talk to people in her community without finding somebody who has got a loved one battling addiction. i saw it in ohio. people see it all across this country. what happens to this nation's fight against opioids under this senate bill. >> what happens is that the fight against opioid addiction takes a huge hit. it's a huge setback. you know, in states like ohio, west virginia, you've seen in your reporting, you've seen what this epidemic looks like. you know, we have ways to treat it. there's treatment out there. but people need to get it. they need to be able to pay for it. medicaid is a lifeline for these communities right now. rolling back the expansion, which allowed so many millions of people to get health insurance, and then in the future cutting the funding for the program through either these per capita caps or these block grants that are in the proposals, both of those two steps, you are taking a huge amount ofbill,

alex bolton, dr. john dem browski. happy friday to you both. >> thank you both. russian vladimir putin's direct involve in russia's efforts to interfere with the 2016 presidential election >> the "washington post" broke the story, questions barack obama's response to the intel that he received in august about russia's involvement about two months actually before the election itself. now, one of the journalist whose broke the story is with us. ellen knock she ma joins us. i must say, the report was stunning, excellent reporting. take us to august when the eyes only information was sent to the president an handful of people to see and explain what happened from there >> thank you. in early august, courier arrived at the white house and from the cia with an envelope that was eyes only for four officials only. president obama and three senior aids. and in that envelope was extraordinary intelligence that had been gathered from deep within the it was highly classified. and it conveyed the specific instructions from vladimir putin himself to the intelligence services t

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thompson will and discuss their job training and technical education bill, also, the hill's alex bolton will join us to talk about the newly released senate healthcare bill, be sure to watch washington journal live at 7:00 a.m. earn friday morning. join the discussion. >> on monday, the supreme court ruled unanimously that the government's refusal to register trademarks violates first amendment free speech, it a win for the asian american rock band "the slants ", the name can be seen as a racial slur of people of asian decent. next the oral arguments in the case. they are about an hour. >> may it please the court. the provision at issue in the case, 15 u.s. -- beliefs or national symbols. based on that provision, the pto denied to region "the slants," as a service mark of the band. it did not limit the ability to use the mark in commerce or to otherwise engage in expression or debate on any subject that he wishes. because of the disparagement provision restricts the program and not speech, it does not violate the first amendment. >> it was a copy righted government program? >> i would s

glenn thompson will and discuss their job training and technical education bill, also, the hill's alex bolton will join us to talk about the newly released senate healthcare bill, be sure to watch washington journal live at 7:00 a.m. earn friday morning. join the discussion. >> on monday, the supreme court ruled unanimously that the government's refusal to register trademarks violates first amendment free speech, it a win for the asian american rock band "the slants ", the name can be seen as a racial slur of people of asian decent. next the oral arguments in the case. they are about an hour.

. >> we are back with alex bolton here to talk about the senate health care legislation and how it compares to the other version of the senate republican version

guest: alex bolton >> senate republicans released their replacement health care bill yesterday. learned about key deadlines from a capitol hill reporter. how did this draft come together? >> it has been in the works. >> it was a pretty top-down process. it has been briefed, all the senators. all the republican senators mad a meeting to go over it and it's online, so everybody else can start to digest what is in it. >> you write that the senate bill has deep cuts to medicaid, what are some of the key details in the bill? and how does it generally differ with the house-passed legislation? >> broadly, i would say it's similar to the house-passed bill and has those cuts to medicaid and tax cuts that repeals all of the taxes in obamacare, meant to pay for obamacare's coverage expansion. repeals the mandates that you have to buy insurance and it rejiggers the tax credits in the bill that helps you buy insurance. that is one difference between the house and senate bill, the house bill created a new system of tax credits which helps give you money to help you afford insurance. it was sm