White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney says negotiations over the latest version of the health care bill are ongoing in what he says will allow " everybody" to have coverage better than what they had under Obamacare<\/b>
\nWASHINGTON — White House Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney has confidence in the Trump administration’s ability to pass the latest version of the American Health Care Act (AHCA) through the Senate, and says the bill will provide what he calls \u00ab\u00a0sustainable\u00a0\u00bb coverage for all Americans.
Mulvaney, appearing on \u00ab\u00a0Face the Nation\u00a0\u00bb Sunday, said that \u00ab\u00a0everybody will have coverage that’s better than what they had under Obamacare.\u00a0\u00bb
White House budget director Mick Mulvaney discusses the GOP health care bill, the possibility of a government shutdown, and more.
\u00ab\u00a0So much of the dialogue today is sort of compared to this ideal of what people thought Obamacare was going to be and what they want it so desperately to be. The real thing to measure it against is against what Obamacare really is, \u00a0\u00bb Mulvaney added.
The director added that the focus now is on getting the bill passed through the Senate, and said negotiations are ongoing as to what final form the bill will take before arriving to President Trump’s desk.
\u00ab\u00a0The bill that passed out of the House is most likely not going to be the bill that is put in front of the president, \u00a0\u00bb he said. \u00ab\u00a0The Senate will have their chance to change the bill, improve the bill. The negotiations will continue again. So I think it’s important we reserve judgment on what the president will or won’t sign until we know what’s in front of him.\u00a0\u00bb
Mulvaney quipped that the process now is similar to that of the famous Schoolhouse Rock television special on teaching children how a bill becomes a law.
\u00ab\u00a0We’re going to go through that process, is it ugly? Maybe. Is it slow? Yes. But it’s the right way to handle it, \u00a0\u00bb said Mulvaney.
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virgnia, however, told Dickerson on \u00ab\u00a0Face the Nation\u00a0\u00bb that the bill still needs to be fixed.
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, says the people of his state will get \u00ab\u00a0absolutely slammed\u00a0\u00bb by the House Republican health care bill.
\u00ab\u00a0The Affordable Care Act, there’s not a Democrat who doesn’t realize we need to work on the private market, \u00a0\u00bb Manchin said. \u00ab\u00a0But you’re throwing the baby out with the bathwater. And then you’re throwing insult to injury by giving a $575 billion tax cut to the wealthiest Americans while you’re cutting $880 billion of service to the poorest Americans. If you want more synergies there, you know, I said this before, John. We have given 20 million people, 20 million people, health care they never had, never bought, don’t know the value. We never gave them one word of instructions how to use it, how to use it more effectively, how to use it more efficiently, how to keep themselves healthier.\u00a0\u00bb
White House budget director Mick Mulvaney says if it takes a government shutdown to get America’s spending in order, \u00ab\u00a0So be it.\u00a0\u00bb
Manchin added, \u00ab\u00a0I just want to work, and sit down, and try to get something done. But no one’s asked us.\u00a0\u00bb
When asked about the lack of the Congressional Budget Office’s score of the latest revision of the bill, Mulvaney said the CBO had previously \u00ab\u00a0missed the mark\u00a0\u00bb on how many people would lose coverage.
\u00ab\u00a0One of the things you see is that the C. B. O. assumes that once the mandate is gone, people will voluntarily drop off of expanded Medicaid. Think about that for a second. The C. B. O. is assuming in getting to that 24 million people that you get Medicaid for free but once the mandate that you take it is gone you’ll voluntarily give up that free benefit. It’s just absurd. We’ve talked it I think when that first analysis came out. The C. B. O., we thought, really missed the mark. They missed the mark a couple years ago on how many people would sign up. And we think they’ve missed the mark again on how many people will lose coverage, \u00a0\u00bb said Mulvaney.
Mulvaney urged Republicans currently facing their constituents at home during recess to campaign for support of the bill, saying it should be something \u00ab\u00a0Republicans run to, not away from.\u00a0\u00bb
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