medicaid database. that states are delaying of providing medicaid data to cms for expenditures and the utilization of health care services. i would ask, what should congress do to help states reports data to this entity, tms-is. what should they do to help states reporting and a more timely, efficient and accurate manner and what resources do cms and the states need to adequately report data? comptroller dodaro: the states are beginning to report all the data now. but i think our concern is that the data be accurate and complete. is that, and i know cms beginning to follow up on this. so, i think it would be appropriately to ask cms to regular report to the congress on the quality of the data and ask gao to evaluate as well. this would allow states to do comparability assessments, to compare their programs to other programs to learn good lessons. so, the data is starting to come in. this is a very important issue because in the past the data was two and three years old. this requires monthly reporting,

medicaid expansion. 135%. he said when i stand at the pearly gates someday in the future trying to get into heaven, and they asked me --what did you do to deserve getting in? and i am paraphrasing but he said i want to be able to say when people needed health care that i help them get it. when you read matthew 25 it says when i was hungry did you me.ing me -- did you feed it does not say anything about health care. it does not say anything about having access to health care. that hugh wants to be able to say he did something about it. i think we have a moral imperative to the least of these in our society. we face big fiscal challenges. i have focused for years on improper payments. for the question -- first couple of times that he spoke he did not refer to a paper. noticed the woman in a white coat sitting behind him that when he spoke her lips moved. we introduced improper payment legislation called the payment integrity information act. the bill takes a series of steps or attempts to address improper paymen

medicaid services, and the u.s. comptroller general. they talked about short-term health plans and the pricing for a drug that is used to counter the effects of drug overdoses. senator ron johnson shared the hearing. >> good morning. this ring will to order. i want to thank administrator verma and general dodaro. i generally get it right, good. we certainly appreciate you coming for. >> this is follow. to our june 27 hearing where we really explored the gao report on overpayments, primarily medicaid, $37 billion, and we have administrator here type us and program issues p she announced in june and so we will have you testified and then we will have the general comment on how we can make these programs kind of long-lasting. i ask consent my opening, my britney opening remarks to enter in the record. i have a couple charts i'd like them it's in front of everybody. i think -- to the witnesses have the chart as well? that would be nice if they did. go get them. just three charts laying out the macro problem in terms of

medicaid expansion. to 135%, and he said when i stand at the pearly gates someday in the future and i'm trying to get into heaven, they asked me what did you do to deserve getting in? i'm paraphrasing but he said i just want to go to say that when people needed healthcare, i helped them get it. when you read matthew 25, my colleagues here recorded in matthew 25 from time to time. it says when i was on the did you feed me? whenever sick and in prison, when i was thirsty did you give me drink. doesn't say anything about healthcare. doesn't say word about, not access to healthcare, did you do anything about it. try close as i want to a safe we did something about it. i think we have a moral imperative to the least of these in our society, and as we've talked about today with the fiscal imperative. states face big fiscal challenges. and, frankly, we and the federal government face big fiscal challenges so the timing of this hearing is ideal and it's important. i focus for use in improper payments. of my coll

not just healthcare programs such as medicare and medicaid. the human services program such as the administration for children and families. the response work to protect americans from national disasters. he has spent his career working in a senior healthcare leadership role. in both the public and private sector. the current tenure is a second tour of duty at the department. he served as the general counsel from 2001 to 2005. and the deputy secretary. during his time as secretary. in international affairs. global health diplomacy. public health emergency. and food and drug regulation. full plate. he also led the department. through several management and operational transformations. he joined the private sector in 2007. moving to indiana with his wife. and it is my pleasure to welcome here today. the secretary of health in my friend. thank you everybody. it's great to be here with so many great friends. i'm looking around i'm seen as something friendly faces. does it remain friendly during q&a. but thank you for that very kind introduction. i

they try tolace, put a lot of people on medicaid. lot of doctors in different areas, you don't find a lot that will accept medicaid. in our area, there are very few. another situation is that marketplace, to qualify for those government dollars, that help is very hard to qualify for. people are paying $700 a month for health insurance. and they have to dockable's. -- deductibles. i used to work in health care. they have deductibles of $7,000 to $12,000. that is ridiculous. that is a joke. host: let's go to david, who was calling in from monticello, georgia on independent line. will health care be a top issue for you? caller: actually, no, but i want -- respondfrom ohio to the woman from ohio. paysaid and medicare only two cents on the dollar -- doctors can't afford it. representatives that will stand up to china -- china is trying to take over this country. it is talked about a little bit, but not enough. they will try to take us over monetarily. they will cheat the system and up everything they can and overtake us. host: thank you.

we have private insurance but medicaid covers been. sometimes dealing with an insurance company employee who does not have the expertise to understand the significance of the medical record he is looking at. i have also been there when insurance all of a sudden decides to switch them from one medication that works for him that he has been on for years to another medication. he has had about 10 doctors and 20 medications. i hear from granite stators who experience these frustrations. it is hard to spend all day on the phone, wondering if prior authorization went through. it is particularly hard when you are juggling a job and caring for kids. we have talked about the importance of integrating medical records. it is also important to patient safety. at 3:00 in the morning when your hospital that owns your physician practice tells you they cannot get access to your sons primary care health record because they are on different electronic systems, and all of a sudden your doctor is saying, do you remember 15 years ago what antibiotic we use

medicaid is different in part turn from onets kind to another. so sometimes it is not entirely clear who will be ensuring the forent when they come services -- ensuring -- insuring the patient when they come for services. so there is a sows -- so there -- so there is an additional expense. in your response to me, dr., you referenced the coating and severity levels. you discussed in your testimony the potential for severity neutral payments whereby purveyors are paid -- providers are paid for more severe cases. payersreements between and providers to allow providers to share in some of those savings for agreeing to severity neutral compensation required new legislation or regular -- or legislation or regulation? to be effective, you would have to do it for the vast part of the health-care system, because it is very difficult to have different payers different requirements. so the greatest gains would come from standardization and harmonization. the reason why many providers and insurers have knock on there is because if the federal government is a

medicaid is the single largest buyer for mental health services in the united states. in 2015 medicaid, 21% of adults with mental health illness, and 26% of adults with serious mental illness. i'm concern that actions taken by the trump administration to make more difficult to receive medicaid at the increased cost of health coverage more recently by suspending risk adjustment payments to insurers covering high-cost patients will make it more difficult for americans suffering from mental illness and emotional disturbance to receive treatment they need to live and a full and healthy life. before i close i must note that on ongoing mental health crisis created by the trump administration regarding the separation of children from their parents. the american academy of pediatrics has emphasized that highly stressful occurrences like, separation can cause irreparable harm disrupting a a child's brain, architecture and affecting his or her short and long-term health. this type of prolonged exposure is serious stress known as toxic stress, can lead to lifelong consequences fo

>> the funding source is medicaid.icaid is a state-federal partnership. >> reporter: sharon lewis is a senior advisor on disability policy for the u.s. government. she explains that states decide how to spend federal money for adults with autism. >> there's no minimum requirement in terms of how many people you're gonna serve, how much money you're gonna spend on this. it's a state decision. >> reporter: so the federal government can't say to florida, "you've gotta do the same thing." >> at this point under the law, no. >> reporter: what's more, lewis says states split their medicaid dollars between the poor and people with disabilities. she says it all adds up to a system that can't take that much weight. >> i think that the programs are overstressed with the numbers. i mean it's why we see wait lists. >> reporter: is that the bottom line, we just don't have the budgets? >> we have not addressed the need for long-term services and support in this country. >> reporter: and lewis says she understands fighting for the re

the medicaid issue is seeping into the race to his replacement.aughter campaign manager for the republican candidate prom missioned. this as governor, sean moody will enforce the laws on the books with appropriate funding from the legislature who, under the constitution, must pass all spending bills. the democratic candidate state attorney general january mitt mills vows: medicaid expansion is the law. and as governor i pledge to not only fully implement it but to protect it from anyone who would attempt to undermine it as the election creeps clopper wall waits and hopes she will get coverage soon. >> it would mean the world to me, are you kidding? it would mean everything. i have struggled so hard. it seems like nobody cares. >> it remains uncertain as to when the estimated 70,000 people who are newly eligible to receive medicaid coverage here in maine will actually get it. but, one question is before the court right now. whether the lepage administration must take steps to move forward and file an expansion plan with the federal government. a de

and it became apparent to me that here in congress we had this bill through medicaid that you could be diagnosed at the centers for disease control, which was the local county health department. but if they said you had cancer. the answer was, i'm sorry there's no treatment available. we can't help you. i was fortunate to have insurance. but how would you face that? if you were a working woman that had no experience -- insurance and somebody said i can't help you and in fact, you're going to die. and so we started working on a bill that said if you're diagnosed through the centers of disease control, you're local health department, you can get treatment under medicaid. this is for women who were working with no insurance. d they had to be passed, ratified by all 50 states. and so we passed the bill in the house with only one person decenting. and it passed the senate. it was rad fide by all 50 states. and so i felt like that was something that was a really good thing that happened wile i was here, a way that i could contribute that if i hadn't had breast cancer, i woundn't have thought

care, going direct, i think, is the most effective i think federal and state governments, medicare, medicaid, have a role to play in standards and in protecting the clinical quality in some ways, but i think market forces work better when you're trying to lower costs and improve quality. >> there has been that role of market forces driving down the price of drugs and with scott got li

and you've got a republican who says, nah, actually 700,000 people with medicaid expansion, i don't care anything about you. even donald trump didn't say that. so you've got a bad message from the republican candidate. you've got a bad distraction from the president. and you've got a democrat who is neck and neck when he's running uphill. something happening is out there. >> dave, rebuttal. >> wow. wow. so overly optimistic. overly optimistic. let me tell you, chris, you say candidates don't matter. earlier in the piece, in one of your segments, i heard dana say candidates do matter. i agree with her, not you, in this case. candidates do matter. this is like pa 18 which we watched and talked about, conor lamb vrersus rick sa cone. i've been following this race for a long time. one of my very good friends, tim kaine, ran in the primary there. i've been dialed in and watching this evolve over time, and look, i'm not sure that balderson was the best, strongest candidate that emerge the. but here you got it. this isn't really about the president. it's about the individual candidate. all thes

we've issued reports on the center for medicaid and medicaid studies, medicare and medicaid studies asyou know, a pilot on this area and made recommendations to them, which they've agreed to implement. third trend, economics and trade. a lot of discussion about trade arrangements between the united states and other countries. you know, and those arrangements are uppnder review but despite whatever the outcome will be in these arrangements, we still remain a very interconnected world in terms of trade activities. and so, we've been asked to look at from time to time whether other agencies or other countries are complying with trade agreements, but also in the economy, a lot of countries are still dealing with the vestiges of the global financial crisis. a lot of effort's been made to improve the resiliency of financial institutions and financial markets across the world. and so, these are activities that we focus on quite a bit at the gao. for example, in the financial services industry, we've been looking at implementation of the dodd-frank act. we'll be looking at the refinements just

the minister of the medicaid and medicare services and the comptroller general, talked about medicaid fraud with the governmental affairs committee hearing and discussed

paÍs, en esta ocasiÓn, los agentes de inmigraciÓn le preguntaron por quÉhabÍa usado el programa de medicaidicana michelle gutiÉrrez volÓ a houston con su visa de turista. hasta allÍ llegÓ la visita. >> quiero aclarar que migraciÓn o las personas no me trataron mal. luis: no, pero le prohibieron entrar el paÍs y la mandaron a mÉxico, porque hace casi dos aÑos en una vista previa uso un beneficio del gobierno para el parto de su hijo, medicaid. >> es injusto, no tuve la intenciÓn de abusar. no soy una carga pÚblica. he viajado durante toda mi vida el paÍs. luis: el gobierno considera extranjeros como un cargo pÚblico si usan beneficios gubernamentales. durante proceso distensiÓn encontrar de que michel gutiÉrrez usÓ asistencia del gobierno en una visita previa. un visitante tiene que demostrar que es admisible para entrar el paÍs. expertos en leyes dicen que asÍ es la ley desde hace aÑos, antes dentro otros gobiernos no la hacÍan cumplir. >> como el gobierno nunca hacia cumplir la ley, entonces la gente olvidÓ que era la ley. el problema es que si uno viene como terrorista, unode usar servici

it seems we are divided on it, we are divided on medicaid or the repeal issue. but there was a tremendous effort made by conservative republicans and a lot democrats saying we should stabilize the healthcare market. ked withpatty murray wor her counterparts, meaning the chairman of the health care education labor pensions committee to do labor stabilization bill. it got interrupted, i will not say who, but you can guess who interrupted that -- but stabilization of health insurance markets is important and actually bipartisan despite the fact that we are divided on repeal, buts no there is progress we can make there. perkins career and technical education. people in high schools and other settings and also in community colleges for the jobs of the future. that bill had not been reauthorized for 12 years. we got it done, the president just signed into law yesterday or the day before. tuesday i guess it was. we havegs like russia, got a lot of divisions on the administration on things like russia. , when then russia president seems to be one place, a lot of republi

medicaid today caps what you can do for these aides in tetis of compensaon. >> reporter: but, he says, if home carworkers were better- trained and higher-paid, medicaid and insurance companies would actually benefit economically because patients would avoid more expensive medical care.en >> fewer eme room visits, fewer readmissions into hospitals. secondly they will save money because th could shift some work from higher paid folks, largely rses to these aides. and they will save money because they will avoid unneeded nursing home entrances. >> reporter: clare luz says the michigan b.t.b.q. program has already provided evidence of cost-saving. >> we were able to demonstrate empirically an associationtw ben this comprehensive training program and expensive client outcomes, like falls and emergency room visits. just from an economic standpoint, a business standpoint, it's foolish not to be looking at this workforce. >> your hair is very, very curly and pretty. >> reporter: henrietta ivey has many years of experience, but she says when workers like heror carelients dependent on governmen

we're divided on medicaid. we're divided on the repeal issue. but there's a tremendous effort made in 2017 continuing into 2018 by conservative republicans and a lot of democrats saying we should stabilize the health insurance market. so you have patti murray, the senator i mentioned earlier working with me on the airline -- the sexual assault bill. patti murray worked with her counterpart, meaning the chairman of the health education committee to do a stabilization bill. they were headed down the path of getting that done. it got interrupted. i won't say who, but i think you can guess who interrupted that. but stabilization of health insurance markets is important. it actually is bipartisan, despite the fact that we're divided on repeal versus no repeal. but i think there's some progress we can make there. technical education. not a really glitzy subject matter. but training young people or giving the kind of training they need in high schools and other settings and also in community colleges for the jobs of the future. that bill has been -- ha

his workers-- many of his workers-- wages that are so low that many of them are on food stamps or medicaidundreds of millions of dollars into elections soelect candidates who represent the wealthewealthet and powerful, wh surnd mining american democracy. and i think people are sick and tired of the greed and the power of a handful of people on top. they want a government which represents all of us, not just the 1%. ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: well, who do you-- ( cheers and applause ) i think-- i think all that is well taken. who do you blame? do you cratdo a better job of sn big money and corporations and the excesses of late-stage capitalism, as many people call it? or do you blame the republicans totally for this? >> well, i think what we vanow is a republican party which in the last 30 years has moved very, very far to the right. you have the koch brothers, one of the wealthiest families in this party what's ideology is the ideology of the republican party and trump. you have a president, in donald trump, who campaign-- it's not forget-- told the american people he would not cu

public aids are covered with medicaid.our family members of people that are under the government employed insurance would be covered. you would just have the ones outside of that group that would have to be added. when ali cutment, out all foreign aid and use that towards paying for something we really need? host: thank you, charles. charles: the cost under medicare for all, these are over and above what we are currently paying for all of the things the caller mentioned. the total cost of medicare for all would be much larger than those picture -- figures. emily: i agree with that. even the people have coverage, many proposals we see out there, whether it is standards or -- sanders or jeff merkley's plan would also bring up the level of coverage. we are talking about taking people who currently have medicare or medicaid and making plans more generous. host: what factors have to be in place to make this a serious reality? what do you have to see as far as the way our government works or economy are other factors to know tha

capuano: medicare and medicaid. that is absolutely nuts.t is one thing not to do it and another thing to pass a law saying you can't do it. every country you compete with has done it. allow people to go back and forth to canada, get drugs from outside the country. mr. braude: the president of the united states and canada supported those positions until he met with the pharmaceutical industry. rep. capuano: very interesting. i have been supporting these positions since day one and will continue to do so. mr. braude: do you not worry about the appearance issue, even if your record speaks for itself? rep. capuano: there is no one in the world who thinks anybody who takes money from anybody is always suspect. when you have a record, you can go back and look at what i have actually done, particularly in this district. pharmaceutical companies did not use the to donate until they started buying all the bio companies we create in this district. they are one of the largest employers and represent a lot of people. mr. braude: can you give me concret

we need to do more of this and we expect that medicare and medicaid will follow >> i was going to say, that's the big nut, right if you get medicare and medicaid to sign off on something like this, that is a game changer basically the entire industry will follow what they do >> absolutely. and that's why we're going to perform a randomized controlled trial starting in the fall to prove our outcomes it's one thing to say we've done this with a group of patients. it's another thing to scientifically prove it. >> and just in terms of what this could mean, obviously, we've focused here on diabetes and pre-diabetes, are there other illnesses that could be at least helped by a program like this >> absolutely. so, one out of every two americans suffers with chronic diseases and many of those diseases relate to lifestyle conditions, like obesity, hypertension, heart disease, and diabetes. we currently spend over $330 billion a year on diabetes so just cracking that nut would be a big win >> what can you say? i know this is a small program at this point, but if you had to try to figure out and

hampton have to make some difficult choices he's unemployed and get his health care through the medicaid program for the poor but it only covers individuals who make less than seventeen thousand dollars that makes it hard to pay those premiums so he might be in a position where he has to choose between a job and having health insurance with the u.s. health care system in crisis being sick in america is getting more expensive we actually pay more. every other developed country and we actually have. the research firm says the price of the most popular plans in the insurance exchanges created by the two thousand and ten act known as obamacare will rise on average fifteen percent that's due largely to the trump administration's cuts in federal subsidies and the planned repeal next year of the so-called individual mandate requiring every u.s. resident to have health insurance for public hospitals like stroger cook county that mandate has been a money saver and has stabilized us in a substantial way financially in the one nine hundred ninety s. one in four patients at stroger had insurance now

these guys wouldn't even take, quote unquote, free money to expand medicaid when the entire business lobby and all the polling showed it would be a good idea. so the idea that you would have medicaid for all or medicare for all is a little difficult to see happening in this state. >> i want to talk about the desantis monkey comment here in a minute. why didn't he get the benefit of the doubt, michael? >> why didn't desantis get the benefit of the doubt? >> the assumption was that he didn't misspeak, that it was 100% a racial dog whistle. is it because he's connected to trump? >> no, it's not because he's connected to trump. it's because it's how white folks talk about black men who are successful. >> let's hear the whole thing just so people can hear it. i think it's important. i hope we have -- yeah, we have a longer version of the bite that gets it exactly what you're saying here. here it is. >> you know, he is an articulate spokesman for those far left views and he's a charismatic candidate. i watched those democrat debates and none of that is my cup of tea, but he performed bette

we also know that this governor failed to expand medicaid for over 700,000 of the most medically needy people in this state, leaving $6 billion alone last year on the table, money that could have come from the federal government to help prop up that system, while here in the state of florida we have a nursing shortage. we can't find enough nurses to go type the field. and i think largely because we have failed to step up to that task. listen, i believe -- obviously at my level as governor we have the ability to expand medicaid with the work and cooperation of the legislature -- >> if the federal government will still give it to you. and if they keep doing what they're doing on the federal level, the transition costs for your state -- i understand that there are studies that say over time medicare for all would reduce costs, have a healthier population, change co-pays. but the transition costs are crippling. that's why one of your supporters, bernie sanders, his home state tried it and they couldn't get it done because the tax increases that are necessary, crippling. >> yeah. well, let

today his medicaid will depart the state capital at 9:15 local time and make its way to the north phoenixist church. the memorial service there will begin at 10:00. speakers include larry fitzgerald and former vice president joe biden whose son bo died of brain cancer. senator mccain will leave arizona today for the final time at 12:30 en route to joint base andrews. there will be 3 days of ceremonies in washington dc and the naval academy in annapolis, maryland. >> we appreciate it. >> 9 minutes after the hour, outrage going nationwide after 3 suspects, you see them there, from that extremist compounds are cleared of all charges. brian morrow has been following this, shocked by the judge's ruling and says the public is now at risk. >> my opponent lives in a world of fiction, i live in world affect. >> can you stop interrupting. >> can you stop lying? >> this wasn't nationally televised but on the east coast sparks flying on a debate stage between andrew cuomo and actor turned politician cynthia nixon and we have a heated highlights coming up. ♪ - in a crossfit gym, we're really engaged w

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health and social services, bill walker dramatically expanded medicaid and there's a lot of duplicationrk. we will cut hair. the corrections department is not correcting. we have over 70% return rate for prisoners who get out and come back. we've got to look at the budget specifically and see what works and what doesn't. leland: albright. important question here. >> it's not a yes no question. leland: fair enough. what you talked about as it relates to jobs come and i was governor do you do that? trade policy at the federal level and how would you intend to bring back the jobs being exported? >> you know, one example where the fit urges air cargo in the world. it probably stops in alaska for gas. the jet fuel comes in from singapore, yuppies got refineries here. one refinery was closed or reset the wrong incentives. they bring it in from outside and we end up losing the jobs. we just had a big timber sale north of here. on five, the water is behind me will go out as firewood rather than furniture. we've got to start making things with what we do. leland: all right, sir. we appreciate yo

if you get medicare, supposed to be insolvent by 2026 and if you look at medicaid and medicare in 2017r payments and this is their solution to healthcare situation. >> some of those numbers are tough to understand and swallow for a lot of people because when you look at those numbers, it would cost an estimated 70% income tax for top earners at a national level, $32.6 trillion in ten years and in california alone it would cost 40 $400 billion a year. those are some gigantic numbers putting off a lot of people. don't you think if it were as simple as some democrats are making it sound that we would have already? >> i don't think it is simple by all stretch of the imagination. it is not going to be simple but what they are saying is this rhetoric they keep hearing is healthcare should not be a privilege afforded to some. what they are saying is we have done things in the same manner and wants to ensure people, no matter your social class or where you come from our afforded quality healthcare. the next point about health insurance and what it means for people, it may increase finances tha

sure we need to have affordable health care at the same time republicans are trying to strip away medicaid and if anybody steps out of line from the perspective like senator mccain did and gets repeatedly taunted, they have to walk lock step in the ways that won't improve the lines of americans and there's often good competition of ideas that that really stands in contrast to anybody who steps out of lean-to this current president on the republican side is worried not only for the re-election but, you know, continued taunts and tweets. >> you were in iowa thursday. you're going to be in new hampshire next week. you're a two-term governor of a state trump won by 20 points. many democrats think this means you could compete in a red state as a presidential candidate. i understand you haven't announced you're running for anything. but do you think if you did run you could beat president trump? >> what i look at -- and those hypotheticals are a bit challenging, certainly. i was the only democrat i think in the country to get re-elected statewide in a state where president trump won. more than t

more than that i've actually been able to bring folks together from expanding medicaid to an earned income tax credit, record investments in education, trying to get dark money out at elections, which is something i was talking about in iowa. i think if anybody actually assumes we share the values of folks across this country, fights for those values and tries to bridge some of the divides, divides both in our country or political system that could be president trump 2020. >> that would theoretically include you, i suppose? >> it would include all kinds of folks. right now really what i've been doing is i have been listening, traveling the country quite a bit, listening probably more than i've been talking. for now that's as far as it goes. >> thanks for joining us today. we appreciate it. >> great talking this morning, jake. >>> a stunner in the russia investigation. a white house lawyer involved in some of the most intimate discussions with the president is reportedly talking a lot to bob mueller. stay with us. for them. for all. get unlimited for as low at 30 bucks per line for four lin

he spoke of collective bargaining, unions, protecting social security and medicare and medicaid. he got elected in a district computer designed so that no democrat could ever win. i have talked to a number in the new classes that are running. very diverse. a lot of women. if they talk about the issues that affect working people, they win. if they support working people, they will come out and win, whether it is a rural, urban, or suburban district. difference.-- they are interested in the issues that affect them. to thehat address them satisfaction of workers will get their support. candidates that want to play on a different scale, this guy is theyr that issue was bad, will losing a lot of traction -- lose a lot of traction. linda: the "wall street journal"? eric: i want to ask you about the labor department under alex acosta. love his background with devos. how do you think he is doing in terms of enforcing labor law and protecting workers? richard: the jury is still out. we have more of a working then anship with acosta lot of those names on the list. a lot of the stuff you se

anderson accepts medicaid but it not accept obamacare. impact ons a real obamacare plans. when colette briggs developed an aggressive form of looking at, his -- her father had to switch jobs, from his obamacare plan to employer-based plan which effectively meant to hit the switch jobs because no obamacare plans cover the one local hospital that provides the special kind of therapy that colette briggs needs. network adequacy issues matter under obamacare because if your provider is out of network, there are no limits on cost sharing in obamacare. studies show that obamacare is for existing conditions revisions are ruining coverage for the sick and that erosion of coverage is probably going to get worse because most of the measures that obamacare created to prevent that from happening of disappeared and elevate their coming back. this is why consumers are flooding the market. these are significant. we asked people would you still support obamacare's pre-existing they supported and erosion in coverage? there's two to one opposition, but support this opposition even among demo

hampton have to make some difficult choices he's unemployed and get his health care through the medicaid program for the poor but it only covers individuals who make less than seventeen thousand dollars that makes it hard to pay those premiums so he might be in a position where he has to choose between a job and having health insurance with the u.s. health care system in crisis being sick in america is getting more expensive we actually pay more. per person than every other developed country and we actually have. banks the research firm says the price of the most popular plans in the insurance exchanges created by the two thousand and ten act known as obamacare will rise on average fifteen percent that's due largely to the trump administration's cuts in federal subsidies and the planned repeal next year of the so-called individual mandate requiring every u.s. resident to have health insurance for public hospitals like stroger cook county that mandate has been a money saver and has stabilized us in a substantial way financially in the one nine hundred ninety s. one in four patients at str

anderson accept medicaid but not obamacare. this has a real impact on obamacare plans. residentrginia developed leukemia, her father -- not sotch jobs much switch jobs, he had to switch from his obamacare plan to an employer-based plan which effectively meant he had to switch jobs because no obamacare plans covered the chemotherapy she needed. network issues matter because if your provider is out of network there are no limits on obamacare. pre-existing the are you rooting coverage that will probably get worse because most of the measures that obamacare created to prevent that from happening have disappeared. they do not look like they are coming back. this is why consumers are fleeing the market. these concerns are really significant. we have done polling at cato where we have asked people if you would support pre-existing conditions provision if it led to erosion in coverage. not only does two to one support flip to two to one opposition when you ask people that question but even among democrats. democrats start out 82% to 16%, but if the provisions lower the quality

he want to undo medicaid expansion which i worked to provide health care to 680,000 in my state.rump-lican opponent is trying to undo that and still take health care away from people, rip it away. there are national implications no question. leadership in washington, d.c., will have animi -- an impact on this debate. i'm going to fix the roads, make sure we get our kids prepared, and cleaning up the drinking water which still is not fixed. you know about flint, michigan. it's not far from ann arbor where you spent time. we have a lot of work to, do and i'm staying focused on the dinner table issues. >> we're following the flint story here, as well, as you know, senator. right now, those who are watching say it's a tossup race between you and your opponent. what do you think is going to be the key issue moving into the election? is it going to be the economy? is it going to be the investigation happening in the beltway on the question of obstruction of justice? >> i think it's the dinner table issues, i really do. you know, if you can't turn on your tap water and bathe your childr

melissa: what do you think of this push, medicaid for all? they couch it in moral terms.d person, you're obviously in favor of this, and if you're evil you're against it? >> this is one more test tonight how many democrats want to march over this cliff with bernie sanders who is, as far as i know, not actually become a democrat, but he is offering the full socialized medicine and we should point out, when they say medicare for all, they actually destroy medicare along with every other form of insurance. so this is changing medicine for every single person in america. it is a radical step. no way to afford it. patient care will decline. melissa: why would, for our viewers out there, why would their insurance they have right now not be available if we went to medicaid for all? >> i suppose we would ask bernie, but in his legislation he specifically gets rid of other forms of insurance. i think that is probably because socialism never works when it is voluntary, right? you need to force everyone into the system so the government can ration care. we are seeing these sort of w

so he is talking about medicare and medicaid, the lack of expansion in the state. he is talking about stand your ground. he is talking about the gun laws. and scott's inability to have done anything about it. >> i do if you look at the bigger picture of what is happening, that the progressives are running on issues. they just are. whether you agree with the issues or not that is up to you. and they are winning on these issues at much higher rates than they ever in t they have in the past. republicans are running on being close to trump. it is not about issues. >> and that has worked. the president i think has a 36-6 record in terms of -- >> but it is about who can suck up to trump the most. but it is not really -- whereas the progressives are really talking about making serious changes to the way democrats are thinking about big issues. >> and independents haven't weighed in in the state yet. that is one of the reasons desantis has spent most of his campaign on fox news. he is over 100 times he's been on fox news throughout the primary and that was one of his main

some days i'm not going to give in when they tried to for one example, go over after medicaid. let's not even begin the discussion, i'm going to fight them. over and over is necessary but having said that, there are examples this year where i've been successful working with republicans and my party has as well and republicans have been working with us as well. a couple of examples because none of this gets reported today it happens until it's over . we just go back to fighting and division and there's not much coverage of all that you see on television but here's some examples because i think you should have some sense of balance about where it leaves the senate as i can't speak for the house, that's a different institution. i think it's an institution that had a lot of difficulty lately. let me give you an example. number one, the spending bill, the so-called omnibus. it's a terrible word that doesn't mean much but it's a spending bill for this era and the two-year budget agreement receded it so we have a two-year agreement which washard to enter into , in this years pending b