Behind the scenes of Katie Couric’s interview with Sen. Susan Collins

Yahoo News Global Anchor Katie Couric and crew took a trip to Capitol Hill to interview Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine) to discuss the Obamacare repeal bill.

Senator Collins said that she believes the House needs to “slow down” in its quest to repeal and replace former President Barack Obama’s health care law and that the current bill unveiled this week would be dead on arrival in the Senate.

“I do not think it would be well received in the Senate,” Collins told Yahoo Global News Anchor Katie Couric of the current House bill, which President Trump has called “wonderful.”
Collins, a moderate Republican who has bucked Trump on a handful of his Cabinet nominations, said she is concerned by analyses that estimate 6 to 10 million people would lose their coverage under the bill and that older people’s premiums would rise. She also thinks the bill breaks the “promise” Congress made to states that they would receive 90 percent of the funds to expand Medicaid. (The House bill phases out expanded Medicaid funding.)

Collins stressed that the bill is a “work in progress” and may improve to the point where she could support it.

Read more by Liz Goodwin/Yahoo News and watch the interview on Yahoo News.

Here’s a behind the scenes look.

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