mandated coverage in there that drive up the costs, those have to be dealt with if we are ultimately going to bring down the costs for working-class families and if we put that many the bill, may have parliamentary ruling on it but i think we can win that as well and use that strategy to actually repeal and replace it with something that s going to be helpful. congressman, here is the problem, if you blow up senate rules and you basically say you can pass almost anything under reconciliation, then you re ending a filibuster, a majority can do anything they want. back in 2009 there was a simple majority but not a filibuster majority of democrats who wanted universal health care and they continue do it because under they couldn t get the 60 votes to do that so that s one problem with it. i mean, if you blow up rules, yes it ll work for you now but when the democrats come back in and they will eventually, they can do anything they want with
was bringing had not been spirit, capitol hill, congressional leadership with binary choice, either take it or leave it approach. the fundamental problems that this bill keeps architecture of obamacare in place. many of those regulations stay in place. because regulations drive costs people in driving buying health insurance, this bill gets rid of individual mandate and replaces individuals on insurers to try to have continuous coverage. because you have driven up the cost of healthcare insurance and you re requiring people to buy overexpensive plans. this bill keeps the architecture of obamacare in place and that s why it needs to be improved and it needs to be improved a lot if we are going to make it great. juan, i want to pick up from that.
he s insisting that they cross state lines. do you think ending expansion of medicaid next year rat than slowout in 2020, do you think that improves the bill? we are trying to give the governors to control what is going on in the state. many of the governs are done a very good with healthcare in their states and we are trying to work with the governors to give them more control of what they re doing in their states. how important is this bill to the president? how hard will he fight for it? is he willing to go out to districts and call out republicans by name who oppose it and does he view this, his first legislative initiative as make or break for his young presidency? the president, the vice president, all of the white house are fully commit today this bill and we are going to dt passed. yes, he s going to travel and go to different congressional regions and personally involved in getting this passed.
that require plans covered some benefits, a wide range of benefits including maternity care. will the president negotiate with the hard line conservatives on those or will he standby the so-called ryan bill, the repeal and replace bill that s now before congress as sean spicer said he would on friday? chris, i think the president has been very open and transparent on the issue that he s been willing to accept improvement for the bill. we have gone out of our way and the president has said this to say that anything that makes the bill better for americans, we are willing to accept. we met with many groups over the last week, week and a half, we ve talked as we possibly could and anyone that came up with the improvement, we are more than happy to accept. in fact, the president wants to implement improvements and concerned that we have as many products out there for consumers. he wants to have the ability for insurance companies to sell across state lines, in fact,
two. two. a clean bill is very unlikely to get through the senate. everyone knows that. chris: michael. a very unfair way to frame the issue. you have one chance on 51-vote republican threshold and what conservatives are saying, take the architecture of obamacare and do the rest when you need to get democrats. what they re proposing going through is the exact opposite. you do the rest now and magically get 60 votes, eight democrats, now that you passed your bill that keeps the architecture in place we are going to join you to tear down the architecture. trump didn t run on doing the rest later, he ran and repeal and replace and that s why he s backing congressman ryan right now. the house speaker, because he knows that they will own they will own health care, they will own every horror story.