Bill Cassidy: Tax Credits in Senate Bill Are ‘Far More Generous’ than the House Bill

‘If that Medicaid expansion goes away and if there is no coverage, that’s a bad thing’

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GEIST: "Is that definitely what happens for those people? Because you have to think about a family in Louisiana who is covered right now by that Medicaid expansion and go, 'Wait a minute now. I don’t want this taken away if I don’t know what’s over the hill.'" 
CASSIDY: "That’s what I’m looking at, but the tax credits in the Senate bill are far more generous than the tax credits in the House bill, so as that family moves over, we want to make sure there is not a big cliff. 'Oh, you're on Medicaid, you don’t get any help.'" 
GEIST: "Right."
CASSIDY: "If we make it so that you are on Medicaid, but then you move over into a generous credit that allows you to kind of float on up, actually, that’s going to be a better — "
GEIST: "We don’t know if that will happen."

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