march of 2010, the g.o.p. made repeal of it a linchpin for their future hopes. you cannot put this bill into action. on day one, i will repeal obamacare. they saw a huge federal program as a threat to individual responsibility, to limited government, and the world s best health care system. rising premiums and deductibles helped fuel the anger. obamacare is a disaster. repeal has evolved into repeal and replace. even that is disingenuous. says one elder. i shouldn t have called it that. they re going to fix the flaws and put a more conservative box around it. what was once taboo in the g.o.p. playbook, government run health care, appears to be here to stay. how did it happen? psychologists talk about the status quo bias. even if something is bad, we
march of 2010, the g.o.p. made repeal of it a linchpin for their future hopes. you cannot put this bill into action. on day one, i will repeal obamacare. they saw a huge federal program as a threat to individual responsibility, to limited government, and the world s best health care system. rising premiums and deductibles helped fuel the anger. obamacare is a disaster. repeal has evolved into repeal and replace. even that is disingenuous. says one elder. i shouldn t have called it that. they re going to fix the flaws and put a more conservative box around it. what was once taboo in the g.o.p. playbook, government run health care, appears to be here to stay. how did it happen? psychologists talk about the status quo bias. even if something is bad, we
government get out of the healthcare business after seven years of obamacare which is what many conservatives want. doug s doug looks at that and he is live in washington. from the very first day since its passage in march of 2010, republicans have to fight tooth and nail to repeal obamacare, numerous votes, promises from mitt romney back in 2012 and again at 26 to invite virtually the entire g.o.p. field, but all of that hue and cry has given way to a difficult truth of one party elder admitted last week. i should not have caught it repeal and replace me, that s not going to happen. basically they are going to fix the flaws and put a more conservative box around it. in other words, what was once a taboo in republican orthodoxy, government health care is here to stay in part, how else is it possible to cover 11 million people as they were before the
the flaws and put a more conservative box around it. is that going to be good snuff what he s talking about? well, i mean, i think i disagree with the hypothesis, which is to say if you look at the reconciliation bill it s going to be budget neutral which means you can t don all of obamacare. but if you look at what it does in terms of the penalties, in terms of taxes, it really i won t say guts, guts is not right word, but it eliminates major portions of the affordable care act. this is not about put a bow on something, this is about structurally changing it. the gop backed themselves into a corner here. they were talking about getting rid of obamacare and now they have a problem. they don t know how to get rid of it while keeping the popular areas of it including medicare expansion which is very important to gop states that balance their budget on that and at the same time making sure they keep lifetime caps off.
you re in alignment with sanders. i would just say this, leaving trade aside, which is going to be interesting here and i hear consistently from voters back home, it s the economy, stupid, it s the economy, stupid, it s the economy stupid. and the first thing i hear from democrats in districts back home, it s too much wealth with the democrats. former speaker john boehner said that obamacare is not going to be repealed and replaced. i shouldn t have called it repeal and replace, because that s not going to happen, it s basically going to fix the flaws and put a more conservative box around it. is that going to be good enough, what he s talking about? i disprove the hypothesis, if