why not instead of fix what s wrong with obamacare make companies like aetna who lied to consumers and lied about why they pulled out and said they pulled out because obamacare was too expensive and they pulled out because of a merger. expand medicaid. what do you think about the new bill? it s being scorned by men medical groups with liberals and many conservatives. what do you think? well, i m shocked and i think this bill takes away the right to health and dignity for poor people and older people and for children. it takes health and dignity for those who make millions of
many american who is rely on obamacare are expressing concern about the gop plan to repeal and replace it. via skype, jesse participated in a recent town hall about obamacare. thank you for joining us. thank you for having me. you confronted diane black at a town hall. let s listen. my whole philosophy in life, the individual mandate, that s what it does. the healthy people pull this up. if we take those people and put them in high risk insurance polls, they are costlier and there is less coverage for me. that s the way it has been in the past and that s the way it will be again. we are effectively punishing our sickest people.
place. the president and paul ryan the house speaker is making it. is that obamacare is in collapse. is that what you see in your state? there are places in tennessee where as it stands now there will be zero insurers on the exchange. that s a good part because my state actively sabotaged the aca here. there were advocates who had to sue for the right to talk to people about obamacare and a big part of the aca was attracting young and healthy people to the exchanges. in my state they had to sue to talk to people about it and they didn t people bought transitional health plans and they refused to move those people who bought transitional health plans before the aca was
that s already in. they re damned if they do, damned if they zmoenlt. who who knew that health care could be this complicated? yeah. republicans are in this jam right now. as you just laid out there, there are parts of obamacare are popular with most segments of the pop sxlags they want to keep those without getting rid of the parts like the individual mandate and the less popular features that people don t like. but they were put together in this very admittedly complicated bill from september 2009 when the bill was introduced, to february, march of 2010 when the bill was signed. there was this long pitched battle. and it seeps like the trump team has forgotten how much went into it. i heard bill kristol talk about how president trump would do well to roll this out more methodically. not try to jam it through the
also, by the time it is defeated and in the event that there is some kind of collapse in obamacare, a very risky strategy. barack obama is not around anymore. trump is president. he runs the federal government. obamacare is the federal government the responsibility so. on two fronts, it seems like not the wisest strategy in the world. you would think in a meeting like that, he is focused on one thing. trying convince those conservative skeptics of why they should support this plan when most of the right leaning groups have come out strongly against this. so i would chalk that reporting up as another indicator that this legislation has had a terrible rollout this week and is already on life support. not just the republican that s are against it. the new republican bill is causing an uproar in washington as well with the american medical association, with