HHS Head Tom Price: Trumpcare Isn’t “Obamacare Lite” Because More People Will Have Coverage [VIDEO]

NBC News reports:

No one will be adversely affected by the Republicans’ new health care bill once it’s enacted and more people would be covered, according to Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price.

“I firmly believe that nobody will be worse off financially in the process that we’re going through,” Price insisted when pressed by NBC’s Chuck Todd during Sunday’s “Meet The Press.” “They’ll have choices that they can select the kind of coverage that they want for themselves and for their family, not the government forces them to buy.”

“There’s cost that needs to come down, and we believe we’re going to be able to do that through this system,” he added. “There’s coverage that’s going to go up.”

The bill has its share of critics, from Democrats concerned about the undoing of the Affordable Care Act, to some Republican governors and senators defensive of their state’s Medicaid expansions, to other conservative Republicans dubbing it “Obamacare 2.0” (like Justin Amash) or “Obamacare Lite” (like Rand Paul). The House bill is “absolutely not” “Obamacare Lite,” Price said.