senator cassidy: several things. i've spoken to five or six or seven different democratic senators at length. i have other appointment set up. we are actively reaching out. this is not a republican plan. it is not a democratic plan. i want to be about that woman, economically vulnerable with breast cancer who cannot afford her $6,000 obamacare deductible. it should be an american plan. chuck schumer criticized it saying things that were not true before he read the bill. i know it was before he read the bill because we had not yet introduced it. so i think he has a partisan, as , the minority leader is trying to crack the whip. telling his senators that you listen to me even if this is an attractive bill. that is what is the worst thing about washington, d.c. i am first a physician and after that i am a partisan politician. this is about patients. if they have a better idea about how we can improve this bill, we are open. totally open. the fact that before someone reads it he is telling his membership not to endorse i

senator cassidy: a couple of ways. one thing that will help lower costs, in our bill we include price transparency. the example gives you the statistic. a woman i know, an obgyn, went in for a mammogram and she was going to pay cash. they said we'll bill you. i'd rather pay cash. no, we'll bill you. we don't even know what it will cost you, so she says fine. turns out if she had paid cash, it would have been $90 for her mammogram. her insurance was billed $500 and her deductible was $100. she ended up paying more personally and through insurance than if there had been no price -- that if there had been pre transparency. one area in which price transparency has been seen to work is lasik surgery. lasik, you can see billboards advertising what the price is. in the last 15 years, it has gone from $900 an eye, with more for astigmatism, to $275 an eye. because that is cash-based, price transparent. jessica: how do you enforce that? senator cassidy: in our legislation under the republican alternative, every eligible america

we do so as doctor cassidy has explained by returning options to the state. ours is the only bill that has the unique combination, in the senate, of allowing the state to choose to keep the affordable care act if it is working for their presidents. that means they would still receive the subsidies, tax credits, the consumer protections and he would still be bound by the individual and employer mandate. another option we call the default option in our bill and most states would increase would allow states to cover the uninsured population by providing a standard plan that had a high deductible of basic pharmaceutical coverage, some preventive care such as pre- childhood immunizations and it would be financed through health savings accounts. the amount of money that would go to the states that choose that option would be the same as the amount of money that they've received now under the ac a, plus what they would receive if they expanded medicaid coverage whether or not they have chosen to do so. so it is a generous approach that would allow states to cover un

newsmakers welcomes senator bill cassidy as one of the small number of physicians in the number since9. he is advancing a piece of legislation that would change the affordable care act. thank you for being with us. >> thank you. kliff,me introduce sarah and seung min kim. we will talk a lot about our bill. would you tell our audience the most important things you need to know. context, as ather in that i found if a patient has the power that the whole system lines up to serve her. using the feminine because women make 95% of health care decisions in our society. give her the power and we return power back to the states. we give states the option of going with a better choice. that is federalism. we allowed the money to follow the patient. if they go with the better choice, the patient would receive a tax credit that she could use for health care. if he does nothing, she will have a health savings account pre-funded. it to make it work better for her and her family. her tol being to enable become deactivated patient who we have learned from empirical evidence will have better health ou

newsmakers welcomes senator bill cassidy as one of the small number of physicians in the number since9. he is advancing

cassidy. sen. cassidy: ms. devos, great to see you again. i am really struck, the kind of reaction your nomination has elicited. let me just ask some questions. do you support public education? ms. devos: absolutely, senator. sen. cassidy: man, that's amazing. some would have us think that you do not. do you think all children deserve to have the opportunity to receive quality education? ms. devos: absolutely, i do. sen. cassidy: do you support the rights of all children, regardless of incomes or race? one -- meanse next a lot to me to have the , opportunity to choose the school that meets their child's needs? ms. devos: absolutely i do, and i commend you and your wife for the school that you started that is specifically focused on dyslexic students. sen. cassidy: my son is very bright. he graduated from an inner city public school and then graduated with honors from some fancy school northeast. my daughter, who has dyslexia, we were able to pay the tuition so she can have her needs addressed. not all parents can pay that, so it matters very

cassidy, senator cassidy and nominee for hhs, mr. price, dr. price, have talked about having an option where states can opt to keep expansion, medicaid expansion under the aca if they want to do that. is that something you would consider? >> yes. [laughter] >> [inaudible]. is it something you are inclined to do? >> look, my state did not expand medicaid. i receive adler from my governor just yesterday. the majority leader, kevin mccarthy sent letters to the governor, give us your ideas, which i think is a good thing. governor abbott copied me on his letter saying the block grant approach is something they would like to see. now, you know, i guess, part of your question, that at least in my mind, what is the, what is the pool of money that will form the block grant and does it need to be more equal between states and that means a state has expanded obviously is drawing down more federal medicaid dollars than a state that didn't expand, using its legacy or historic amount. i don't know the answer to that question. i expect we'll have a lot of inp

billusan collins/cassidy would allow states where obama , and allow the states to keep it, and there are a number of those states that is true. i believe they include indiana, mr. pence's home state, kentucky, ohio, as well as other blue states -- california. obamacare is usually popular there and they have really -- and they have many enrollees. republicans recoil against that theire it goes against premise that obamacare is a massive failure, so they had a political problem there. collins is onto something. and that is to get the state more flexibility. and if they don't like obamacare, let's tonight a kind of plan they want with the understanding that they have to have some sort of a mandate, or else have you pay for it? host: gerald is calling in from greenville, north carolina. you are on with eleanor clift. caller: yes, i want to make a couple of comments. one thing about the wall and who will pay for it and what have you. the money that was millions and millions and millions that we will save and cutting off funding to all of the sanctuary cities like los angeles and chicago a

senator cassidy said it is really difficult to keep the coverage for pre-existing conditions and other things without a mandate. what might the republicans come out with, and how might it be received? ms. clift: the whole point is that everybody pays -- the healthy pay as well as the sick. if you only have an insurance pool of sick people, then it would be very costly and insurance company are not going to want to pay for it. and healthy people do face the risk that they will get old and sick someday. so it makes a certain amount of sense, and it is very difficult to take away that mandate and still provide coverage. the susan collins-cassidy bill would allow states where obama care is working, allow the states to keep it, and there are a number of those states that is true. i believe they include indiana, mr. pence's home state, kentucky, ohio, as well as other -- as well as a number of blue states. california, obamacare is hugely popular there and they have really -- and they have many enrollees. republicans recoil against that because it goes against their premise that obamacare is

he's been floating a plan of his ownco-authored with congressman cassidy.'s plan similar to yours? how are you going to come to a meeting ground, a meeting place? >> in fact, hearing senator rand paul, there are many parts of that, the same as our plans, senator cassidy and i have, called the world's greatest health care plan. in fact, it does many of the same things that senator paul talked about. the processes are really important. senator paul has it correct. we must first replace obamacare with a better plan. republicans have better ideas. much of it is through tax credits. it gives everybody in this country an opportunity to have the same tax advantage that everyone else does that works for a large company. we need to increase the number of people in our insurance pools. we need more people to want to pay in and have a lifetime insurance plan. the program says at the core that what we're going to do is to do away with the individual and the business mandate and the cadillac tax. what we've got to do is take away the parts that harm our economy and that

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bow, senator castellini -- senator cassidy. sen. cassidy: let's talk about medicaid. we getting a rosy scenario with obamacare, and the republican attempt to replace it seems odd. first, i want to note for the record that president trump has said that he does not want people to lose coverage. he would like to cover as many people as under obamacare, he wants to cover those with pre-existing conditions. those will be your marching orders? rep. price: absolutely. >> we both worked in public hospitals for the uninsured and the poorly insured, folks like medicaid. let's talk about medicaid. why would we see patients on medicaid at a hospital for the uninsured? if they want to see an orthopedic in private practice, does medicaid cover the cost of seeing an orthopedic patient? rep. price: often times it does not. as you well know, one out of three physicians who ought to be able to take medicaid patients do not take them, and there is a reason for that. that is a system that is not working for those patients, and we up to be honest about that and look at that and answer the

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cassidy: and they quit. when that happens, we lose incredible intellectual capital in our society that can care for people. sen. cassidy: what practical things can we do? rep. price: i think what is imperative is to find out things what things ought to be determined and check the metrics that are used in that they correlate with the care that is being provided as opposed to some anything required right now so that they are wasting their time documenting these things and it doesn't result in a higher quality of care or outcome for that patient. we truly worked with those providing the care to figure out what would correlate with the outcome and the quality of care provided. i suspect there are specific things we could use. sen. cassidy: it is interesting because you are and for sizing emphasizing -- the husband would be the one crying and she would be the one telling them and looking them in the eye and telling them "there is hope." my only imagined if she were in practice typing up "there is hope." it is a d

this week on nakesnakes we talk to senator bill cassidy. senator cassidy behind one of the new proposals that's been quoted to replace the affordable care act, doctor an member of the u.s. senate. obviously talked this week on "newsmakers" about his proposals and the future of ealth care in the u.s. >> i'm curious if you could talk about any conversations you've had and whether you expect the tone to change. >> several things because you asked several things. i've spoken to five or six or seven democratic senators at length. and i have other appointments set up. we are actively reaching out. this is not a republican plan. it is not a democratic plan. i want it to be about that woman, economically vulnerable, with breast cancer, who cannot afford her $6,000 obamacare deductible. it should be an american plan. chuck schumer criticized it saying things which were not true before he read the bill. i know it was before he read the bill because we had not yet introduced it. so i think he as a partisan -- the noirlt leader -- is trying to crack th

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>> there hasn't been anything in the republican plans, including senator cassidy and collins, that has addressed prescription drugs in a head-on way. there are very smart people here in d.c. that think because republicans will ultimately need some democratic support to pass a plan that repeals and replaces the affordable care act, they might do something, even if it's relatively minor on drug prices to win over at least a handful of democrats. what exactly that looks like and whether a token gesture on drug prices is enough to give democrats to vote to upend their signature legislative achievement of the last decade, that's kind of the open question. >> let's head to troy, michigan. steven's waiting. also a medicare recipient. good morning. >> caller: good morning, gentlemen. i've got two questions. i hear from one side that medicare is okay, then the other side says unless something is done, medicare is going to go bankrupt. which one is true? or is it in the middle? and the first lady, people forget that the insurance companies and doctors went to the white house and made deals with

we'll hear from senator susan collins and bill cassidy here on c-span2.ommerce committee chairman talks about the law on the internet. the energy and natural resources committee will vote tomorrow on the nomination of former republican texas governor rick perry. two had the energy department. mr. perry testified last week that his confirmation hearing, we will have that later. >> c-span's washington journal live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up tuesday morning, pennsylvania republican congressman keith Ãwill discuss president trump's relationship with congressional republicans. in the house republican agenda. then connecticut democratic congressman jim himes joins us to talk about the democratic agenda for the new legislative session. be sure to rc spans washington journal live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on tuesday morning. during the discussion. >> republican senators bill cassidy and susan collins announced their plans to replace the affordable care act with what they are calling the patient freedom act. they contrasted their b

i still have cassidy. she's going back to l.a. tomorrow.ave my friends, and i love to see them, but when you can have your grown children for them for, like, two weeks and just -- >> how awesome. >> yeah. >> reconnect and do all those things. >> yeah. i'm just glad i like them. i know a lot of people that don't like their kids, and the kids don't like the parents. that would break my heart. >> i know. >> how about you, sweetie? your weekend. >> joel and i went to go see "dear evan hansen." it's the broadway show. >> that's getting so much buzz. >> ben plat and laura dreyfuss are in it. there are man tears in that audience that you -- >> did joel cry? >> joel cried. >> so did everybody. it's a beautiful show. we went back, and there's joel photo bombing in the back. hey, joel. anyway, it was a really great thing, and then on saturday katie turned 60 years old. it was her 60th birthday. we went, and there were a ton of people. we went and said hi. >> oh, fun. >> had a little fun. >> i heard she was terrific all last week. >> she was really gr

cassidy: just to also point that out. when you speak about giving the patient power over her health care to allow the herd to choose, when we choose for her, we have a $39,000 premium. but when she chooses, she's a more activated and infirmed -- informed consumer. other't agree with each and highly, but substantially, and i applaud you for that. now, al franken always calls me a luddite. different issues. i'm skeptical about many things. about electronic health records and the negative impact on productivity. skeptical about electronic health records and the negative impact on productivity. i see that anderson laid off 5% of their staff. they blame it upon financial losses related to decreased productivity, attributable to the implementation of the rule. your department will be involved with meaningful use. an orthopedic surgeon asking someone about their smoking history is not a good use of that surgeons time. not that it isn't important, but he's not a person who will implement a program that shall be their internist. w

susan collins of maine and bill cassidy of louisiana are deciding to introduce the first senate replacementill, one that could be considered some might call it obamacare light. depends on your point of view. basically it allows states that like obamacare to keep it as the law of the land, or at least their land. if they don't, there are some alternatives. sean spooiser was asked today and he gave a friendly dodge saying they look forward to working with congress on this. but folks, at some point republicans will need to compromise in order to pass a replacement health care bill that can get a dozen democrats. and this one brought by a moderate republican and a conservative republican looks like, on paper, as the best possible vehicle. but again, they'll probably need a trump white house behind them to succeed. i sat down with senators cassidy and collins earlier today and began by asking them why they're not waiting for president trump to introduce his own bill first. >> this is congress's responsibility. and to truly do a repeal and replace, you're going to need 60 votes in the senate. num

thank you. >> senator cassidy. >> thank you, mr. chairman. you all seem warm out but i been gallivanting with high school students i'm pretty energized. let me say for the record that when john king came for and i wanted ask a second round and you wouldn't let me. i confirmed with staff so i've been wanting to say that for two days now and i just want to say it. i've got another set of questions and you said shut up. so anyway, nothing -- >> nothing personal. >> i would hipaa laws required now a grandfather taking his grandson on health calls? i love what you're saying about the patient physician relationship. you and i have both worked in hospitals for the uninsured. i as a gastroenterologist, liver doctor. we've been talking a lot about obamacare and wonderful things but i keep one thing of my patients at the hospital for the uninsured with a $6000 deductible. >> that's right spirit the patient you thought great, they don't have $400 in their accounts and have a 6k deductible six k. deductible before they can be otherwise cared for? just fo

susan collins and bill cassidy are planning to offer an obamacare replacement proposal next week. colin said they will introduce the legislation on monday. she added, they will be releasing more details, but it will allow state to keep the affordable care art, if they , if they- care act like it. we will tell you more about the tom price hearing momentarily. we heard from the chairman at the end. it sounds like they will vote on the nominee, betsy devos, next tuesday. we know for a fact, the judiciary committee, voting on jeff sessions, and also for ben carson, that will get a vote next tuesday as well. to ohio, tony. caller: thank you for taking my call. i know a little bit about education. i'm married to an educator here in the state of ohio. in the state of ohio, to be a building principal, you need a masters in education. this particular nominee has a bachelors in business, i believe. the common core was a state governor association initiative, not a federal initiative. host: what she asked much about common core during the hearing? did that come up much? caller: i did not hea

cassidy: are we in a quorum call? the presiding officer: we are not. mr. cassidy: thank you. madam president, i hear may democratic colleagues praising obamacare. i had the smile yesterday. i heard a colleague talking about how obamacare was addressing high pharmaceutical costs. i had to start laughing, and kind of a bitter laugh. tell that to a senior h's a paying $6,000 for her medicine, which before obamacare passed was a fraction of that. we hear how great it is that obamacare has given people coverage. say that to someone who has a $6,000 deductible. a $6,000 deductible for someone who doesn't have $400 in their bank account. how great that coverage is. there's a friend of mine -- people don't believe it so i put it on my facebook page. he got a quote for he and his wife, 60 and 61 years of age of their premium for one year was $39,000. each of them with $6,000 deductibles. again it's on my facebook page because otherwise no one would believe me. when people speak about the affordable health care act, i've got to laugh. if this is affordable, what would be unaffordable?

brian: very interesting senator cassidy joining us later is he a co-sponsor along with senator collins give people choice and states choice. president trump has looked at all of it but hasn't made a decision yet. yesterday, 50's looking at what was happening in the news it's pretty substantial when bernie sanders is praising president trump to say thanks for rejecting the tpp union. ainsley: and union leaders. brian: yeah, pretty big news as ainsley mentioned that the union leaders are saying, you know, it's great to meet with president trump and get this type of recognition. but, in the end, they were talking about saturday's crowd size and talking about what he might have mentioned to other leaders about 3 million illegals voting. if that is -- if those are the rules of the game, kellyanne, will you change your tactics to win the rules that the journalists are playing? >> the best thing that we could do moving forward is to try to have a respectful relationship and open relationship with a free and honest press. steve: um-huh. >> there is some descriptive and narrative that have to a

senator cassidy. >> thank you. you all seem worn out, but i've been gallivanting with high school students, so i feel pretty energized. let me state for the record that when john king came for an interview, i wanted to ask the second round, you did not let me, so i've been wanting to say that for two days now, i'm going to say it. i've got another set of questions, you said shut up. [laughs] anyway. next, nothing personal. for price, how would the laws regard now a grandfather taking his grandson on house calls, anu know what i'm saying? probably. i love what you're saying about the patient-physician relationship. you and i have both worked in hospitals for the uninsured. i as a gastroenterologist liver doctor, it we've been talking a lot about obamacare and the things it has done, i keep thinking of my patients at the hospital for the uninsured with a $6,000 deductible. the patient's that were working, not on medicaid, they don't have $400 in their account. they have a 6k deductible before they can otherwise be ca

cassidy: mr. president, i was pleased to see on the front page of the washington post this past weekend -- the presiding officer: the senate is in a quorum call. mr. cassidy: i ask that the quorum call be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. cassidy: mr. president, i was pleased to see on the front page of the washington post that president-elect trump was speaking about how we should maintain at least the number of people covered under obamacare in a new kind of replacement for that portion of obamacare. and, if you will, i agree totally with him. we should fulfill this promise and do it, as he said, at a lower cost. and we think we have a mechanism to do so, and senator collins will speak to that today. first, let me just point out, for those praising obamacare, i will say that since it passed the american people have been voting consistently against candidates who supported obamacare culminating in the election of president-elect trump. so whatever folks might say about how w

bill cassidy, thank you for the preview. senator from louisiana.ll bring in judge napolitano, you saw the executive order on friday. you call it truly revolutionary. >> it says i'm the new president. those of you that are enforcing the affordable care act, mainly the departments of justice, health and human services and treasury should know it will soon no longer be the law. i don't want you to impose any fines, any setoffs, any penalties, or any taxes on it because those might not ultimately be owed. then the really revolutionary part. when you have the opportunity to exercise your discretion between the needs of the individual and the needs of the government, you will exercise that discretion in favor of the individual. that is what is truly revolutionary. >> bill: it means don't enforce the law. >> it says do what you have to do. it is still the law but i want you the dial back the severity of the enforcement and i don't want you to punish a person or a state for what you think is their non-compliance because it might not be non-compliance in a

that will drive the prices down >> the most moderate offered by susan collins louisiana senator bill cassidy would give states the option to keep obamacare choose a new state alternative or design a solution without federal assistance. it would scrap the indidual and employer mandates. some suggest it's too close to obamacare. the key for republican is setting realistic expectations >> i think the big hang-up for them is to not get into the trap of rolling become coverage. if they end up with a plan that leads many millions of more people not having health insurance, they could end up in a political cul-de-sac which would be hard to extract themselves >> they insist the going on to a 1,000 page repeal. it require as simple ma. sources say big changes will come by the trump administration scrapping thousands of pages of regulations and finalist components will be bills require which reforms sources predict should democrats will support. >> gary is working on your seven-day forecast, back after this. jape.jammo >>> quiet moment. let's talk about today. kind of a chilly start to it. >> gary, i

i believe it will be between senator paul, and senator cassidy's plan, the best ideas reside within thatld, it's just a matter of going to sell these and the american people recognizing we have to give every single person in this country an opportunity to have better health care than they have today. >> all right, still ahead, president-elect donald trump's press conference this week fell victim to "snl." that's ahead. >> who is quited for my inauguration day. yes, thank you to those people over there who i definitely did not pay to do that. ever try something so good, you get hungry just thinking about it? at red lobster's big festival of shrimp, get your perfect pair for just $15.99. choose 2 of 6 new and classic shrimp creations, like bold new firecracker red shrimp. exploding with flavor? yeah they are. or try new creamy shrimp linguini, and new sweet bourbon-brown sugar grilled shrimp. flavors like these are big. and for just $15.99, they can't last. so hurry in. what are you doing? getting your quarter back. fountains don't earn interest, david. you know i work at ally. i was being

cassidy: are we in a quorum call? the presiding officer: we are not. mr. cassidy: thank you. madam president, i hear may democratic colleagues praising obamacare. i had the smile yesterday. i heard a colleague talking about how obamacare was addressing high pharmaceutical costs. i had to start laughing, and kind of a bitter laugh. tell that to a senior h's a paying $6,000 for her medicine, which before obamacare passed was a fraction of that. we hear how great it is that obamacare has given people coverage. say that to someone who has a $6,000 deductible. a $6,000 deductible for someone who doesn't have $400 in their bank account. how great that coverage is. there's a friend of mine -- people don't believe it so i put it on my facebook page. he got a quote for he and his wife, 60 and 61 years of age of their premium for one year was $39,000. each of them with $6,000 deductibles. again it's on my facebook page because otherwise no one would believe me. when people speak about the affordable health care act, i've got to laugh. if this is affordable, what would be unaffordable?

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chairman: without objection we now turn to senator cassidy. senator cassidy: nice to see you. as you can tell from where i am, i am fairly junior on the panel. i will note that you have been somewhat insulted by innuendo and my sympathies for being insulted by innuendo. secondly, as regards economic growth, i wrote an editorial with a friend in the "wall street journal that showed if we had economic growth from 2001-2014 as we had from 1993-2000, in 2014 we would've had a 550 -- we would've had a surplus as opposed to the $500 billion deficit we had. i appreciate your acknowledgment that progrowth policies cover a multitude of sins. good for you. mr. mnuchin: thank you. sen. cassidy: that said, i represent a lot of rural parishes and there are two things driving economic growth, typically utility companies and community banks. since dodd frank passed, you and i discussed the number of community banks -- it is just plummeted. "o-m-g" as my daughter would say. how do we revive economic prospects of rural america? mr. mnuchin: thank you and first of all, i enjoyed the opportunity

thank you. >> senator cassidy. >> thank you, mr. chair. you all seem warm -- worn out but i been gallivanting with high school students i'm pretty energized. when john king came for an interview i wanted to ask a second round and you wouldn't let me. i confirmed with the steps i been wanting to say that for two days now. i was going to, i had another set of questions and you said shut up. anyway, -- >> it's nothing personal. >> nothing personal. i would get the in regard now a grandfather taking his grandson on health calls? you know what i'm saying? >> i love what you're saying about the patient physician relationship. you and i both work in hospitals for the uninsured. i as a gastroenterologist liver doctor and we've been talking a lot about obamacare and wonderful things it's done. but a given thing in my patient at the uninsured with a $6000 deductible. >> that's right. >> $400 in their account and have a 6k deductible before they can be otherwise cared for. and just for the record people completely. i put on my facebook page. a friend

collins and cassidy will need to get republican leadership on board first. is democratic congressman steve cullen, welcome. >> good morning. >> good morning. are you open to this replacement plan? >> well, i think if they want to repeal the affordable care act, which helps over 20 million people get insurance and is insurance reform on steroids, they need to have a replacement immediately present. and they don't have a replacement. and it can be improved, there's no question about it. and the wonderful thing is the republicans didn't talk about having national health care policy at all other than mitt romney in massachusetts back in the '90s. now since president obama and in the democratic congress passed the affordable care act, they are now wanting to replace it with something. so the affordable care act has caused the republicans to realize america was the only industrialized country in the world without a health policy for all of its people. we will have a health policy, i presume, or they will suffer greatly at the polls. it's important that all people

steve: senator cassidy, have you talked to the administration? do they like your plan?eekly for a few years when i was in the house. and if you look at his plan, he also uses those advancable refundable tax credits, which can only be used for health insurance or health care. but we add to it are features like price transparency so that you know how much it cost before you get the test as opposed to finding out six months later. we think the administration will like that. brian: here comes the replace. it's going to be up to the president to referee this. senators, thank you so much for joining us this morning. >> thank you. >> thank you. ainsley: we have more fox and friends just moments away. brian: i believe her. echnology, so they can detect and repair corrosion before it ever becomes a problem. because safety is never being satisfied. and always working to be better. th...oh, baked-on alfredo?e. because safety is never being satisfied. ...gotta rinse that. nope. no way. nada. really? dish issues? throw it all in. cascade platinum powers through... your toughest stuc

. >> let me get your take on yesterday, two republican senators, susan collins of maine, bill cassidy of louisiana, who is a doctor, unveiled one of the first potential replacement bills for the new congress to consider. it's a state-centric plan and they admit that it is an imperfect plan but describe it as a tangible start to overhauling the 2010 health care law, as you laugh through this, on a bipartisan basis, they believe essentially it would pivot to the states. >> so let me just say a few things about that. first, we're now seven years past the affordable care act and they still don't even have a good plan. this remits the fourth different republican plan out there at least the fourth. you have speaker ryan's plan, you have representative price's plan, you have a plan from senators burr, hatch and congressman upton, now you have the collins-cassidy bill. there's not agreement even among the republicans about the kind of reform, so the idea that we're going to get a repeal and replace right away i think is a little bit far-fetched. it's going to take months to work through and s

--there are debt yesterday yesterday senators cassidy and collins put out a plan for replacing obamacare, the patient freedom act of 2017. in that they even say that states can keep the obamacare exchanges if they want to. also, rand paul has put out a plan to replace obamacare and i keep hearing there is no plan to replace it. said on thers have republican side of the aisle is that, i believe even the chairman of the health committee, chairman alexander, they really cannot act unless they see something from the president of the united states, his proposal. while individuals may have some suggestions, we have to see what is their proposal. what we have set as a standard is that the goal that was set by the affordable care act was to improve quality of care, expand access, and reduce cost. the proposal that they would present would have to stay on that course, which the affordable care act has been very successful in achieving. we can see something, obviously, if they have a good idea we would like to hear what it is like to work together. but right now, we are fighting the repeal of the

you have the paul plan different from the cassidy/collins plan, enough disarray behind closed doors.have a bit of deja vu to covering the 2009/2010 obamacare effort. the difference here is democrats had a clear goal in mind. they wanted to cover more people health surance. it not clear what republicans are groping towards aside from getting rid of the affordable care act. >> that is the great point. what is the plan? jennifer's point about promising the moon. sean spicer said we have a mandate to provide care to more people at lower deductibles. i thought if that's the mandate, that's a tough mandate to live up to. then you have sara to the point about deja vu, status quo bias is intense in health care. change is scary. which ever direction. this is tom macarthur in that audio, jennifer, saying "we're telling those people we're not going to pull the rug out from under them and if we do this too fast we are in fact going to pull the rug out from under them." >> i think their honest the i is at least refreshing and you make another good point, chris, which is one of the complaints abou