profofessor john mcdonough, welcome to democracy now!our assesessment of what has bn released so far? >> what we see so far is not a surprise and it has been revealed in bibits and pieces along thee way. republican plan represents a massive tax cut to benefit wealthy households and powerful corporation in america. in exchange, millions of americans, lower income and lower middddle incomome, are gog to lose her health insurance coverage to make up for the last revenue from these tax cuts. juan: in what w way do you say t is a taxax cut for thehe wealth? >> so the affordable care act is significantly financed. and most people don't know this, by major tax incncrease on wealy households, both on earned income and unearned income. it has been a major target come although they don't talk about it a lot of republicans, to repeal these tax cuts. and just to give you some perspective on this, t the bill the republicans put out would repeal these taxes to the 400 wealthiest households in america because of this tax cut will see annual tax cuts of

amy: john mcdonough, thank you for being with us, causing many to call this. a health care bill, but a wealthcare bill. john mcdonough, professor at the harvard chan school of public hehealth served asas a senior , adviser on national health reform to the u.s. senate committee on health, education, labor and pensions. also served as executive director of health care for all in massachusetts, playing a key role in passage of the 2006 massachusetts health reform law. known as romney care. also the author of "insiside national health reform." he wasas a chief agent former senator ted kennedy. when we come back, a filibuster is being p promised around the supreme court confirmation of judge gorsuch. we will look at one of his cases, the case of the frozen trucucker. stay with us. ♪ [music break] ♪ [music break]  [music break] amy: this is democracy now!,!, democracynow.org, the war and peacace report. i'm amy goodman.n. we turn now to the confirmation hearinings for supreme court nominee e neil gorsuchch, which wrapped up thursday on capitol hill as senate democ

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