obamacare at a health care conference in orlando, florida. the ohio republican said obamacare would survive due to the difficulty of getting lawmakers to settle on an alternative version. in the 25 years that i served in the united states congress, republicans never ever one time agreed on what the health care proposal should look like. not once. and all this happy talk that went on in november and december and january about repeal, repeal, repeal, yeah, we ll do replace, and i started laughing because if you repeal that, first, anything that happens is your fault. the effects of obamacare, i shouldn t have called it repeal and replace, i shouldn t have said that because they are basically going to fix the flaws and put a more conservative box around it. all right. town halls continue to be heated across the country. in fact, our own cal perry was
is going to happen. they re basically going to fix the flaws and put a more conservative box around it. by the way, isn t it what president obama wanted to do? tom mcclintock of california. congressman, let me just ask you. president obama had always said if you can come up with a way to fix the problems, which nobody can deny we re there, he would sign on, right? is former house speaker boehner right that president trump s promise to repeal and replace obamacare is not going to happen? it s just going to be tweaks? well, i don t know. unlike john boehner, i can t read minds and i can t tell fortunes. but i can tell you there is a very strong consensus in the house that the obamacare is collapsing on the american people. we re hearing the complaints constantly about that. more people are opting now to pay the tax penalty than to purchase a plan on the obamacare exchanges. that tells you a lot right there. but as we repeal it, we have got to be certain that we have fixed the problems
and total catastrophe. we re changing it. we re going to make it much better, we re going to make it less expensive. but two years, don t do anything. the democrats will come to us and beg for help, they ll beg and it s their problem. but it s not the right thing to do for the american people, it s not the right thing to do. but not all republicans are as confident as the president. former house speaker john boehner through some shade yesterday. i shouldn t call it repeal and replace. trying to fix the flaws and put a more conservative box around it. dana, your thoughts? who is going to get this one right? i read a quote from jim mcdermott, a big-time democrat, he said the joke around washington is that the republicans are going to repeal obamacare and they will place it with the affordable care act.
obamacare has failed and obamacare must go. [applause] this failed law is crippling the american economy and crushing the american people. shannon: fox news political analyst and author of we the people. and the founder of high noon strategies. welcome to you both. lisa, in the meantime we re seeing a lot of arranging and conversing and strategizing by the gop. but they missed some of their own deadlines for getting this moving and now john boehner is speaking out. they ll fix obamacare. i shouldn t have called it repeal and replace. that s not what is going to happen. they re basically going to fix the flaws and put a more conservative box around it. he says it ain t going to happen in 25 years on the hill he never saw them agree on a single way to handle the healthcare law. he doesn t think the gop can do it now. we ll see about that.
legislative issue before the country right now. the republican effort to repeal the affordable care act which so far has stalled a bit in congress. in a quinnipiac polling on january 12, 48% of americans supported repeal. a slim plurality. in the knew quinnipiac poll, just 43% say they want repeal while 54% want the law to remain. at cpac, sam brownback of kansas, arguably the most conservative governor in the country, said congress needs to find a way to, and i m quoting here people to stay on the obamacare medicaid expansion. former house speaker john boehner, remember him, speaking in florida today said republicans ultimately aren t going to repeal and replace obamacare after all. i should haven t called it repeal and replace, that s not what s going to happen. they re basically going to fix the flaws and put a more conservative box around it. joining me now, republican congressman leonard lance of new jersey who last night hosted a very contentious town hall of his own. isn t