ultimately it will be their decision to do it, and i think we continue to feel optimistic about the direction we ve seen the legislation go. mike? i want to revisit the president s comments in his tweets about the ominous spending bill in the campaign on his business record on his ability to make good deals, make better deals than politicians in the past have. does the president view the spending bill as a good deal? yes. sean, can you say definitively that nobody with a preexisting condition will pay more under it if the amendment does get passed? i think we ve done everything we can to do that. every measurement the president has taken further not only ensures people with preexisting conditions get covered in every scenario but does so that bends the cost curve down. but can you guarantee it? with all due respect, to answer a question saying can i guarantee something, i can tell you every single thing the president has done, including
nobody believes it s work perfectly. but we enshuinsured more than 1 million who were uninsured, we have kids staying on their parent s health care, companies can t discriminal night pre-existing conditions. what you have to do is keep the bedrock foundation and where you need make changes on the cost curve, work with them. but work with the industry. this was a bill that everybody in the health care system rejected. the republican bill, trump/ryan bill. health insurance didn t like this, honesties didny honltss h, nurses can t like it. they said it would cause more harm than good. will republicans try fix obamacare now or will they still try to simply repeal it? i think what they will do is they will actually work together later down the line and try to get something done. but i have to with democrats? with democrats. yes, i think so. and i will telling you that obamacare isn t working because
the affordable care act. the whole point of obamacare was to increase access through the health care exchanges of medica medicaid. you can t move the ball. 21 million people. if you looked at the private insurance markets, the employer market, they were doing pretty well before obamacare. they were not. not cost-wise. cost were going through the roof. yeah. i mean, the cost curve down significant hi. you put boat loads of federal dollars in there. it wasn t lowering cost. what are you suggesting, though? take away the money and people will be without health care and go back to a system where people used emergency this bill does not this freedom caucus. i m not free if i don t have access to health care. i am i am enslaved to that. i also want to bring in doug, the former rnc communications director. doug, you said the only thing worse than pulling a bill is having it go down in the vote.
majority of americans aren t in those health care exchanges. most of them get their insurance through work. they ve got more protections under the affordable care act. the point of obama care was to increase access through the health care exchanges and medicaid. 21 million people did get health care. if you looked at the private insurance markets, the employer market, they were doing pretty well before obama care. they were not. they were. not cost wise. the costs were going through the roof. the reason it bent the cost curve down for all. you didn t bend it. you just put boat loads of federal dollars in there. that s what bent the cost what are you suggesting, though? take away the money and people will be without health care and you go back to a system where people use the emergency room. and that seems to be okay. this freedom caucus, i m not free if i don t have access to health care. i am enslaved to that. i want to bring in doug high, he s joining the pa
others this morning and your caucus, this was not going to pass tomorrow. that s correct. we had substantial changes and we still have a large group that s committed to know until they really can review the details and see where were going with all of this. we re not there yet but i can tell you were working on it. sean: congressman, where are you on this? hats off to our chairman for just a phenomenal job negotiating, he spent on the phone with president trump daily multiple times a day. they re both doing a tremendous job. just for the folks out there, we started from a position that we are going to keep our promise and repeal this bill. the language that we are going to repeal and then replace. i just want to ensure the folks out there when they hear about a deal, that s a deal has to at the very minimum now lower the cost curve for health insurance for the people out there. there s a heavy lift out there,