rural america, this health care plan would hurt all of them and i think there s got to be a way to look at controlling costs and colorado, you know, we ve done the last couple of years since we expanded medicaid, this past year, we actually had declining per capita costs for medicare patients, we had never done that before and we re actually getting our arms around the cost curve and again, maintaining quality, but at the same time figuring how to do it for less money. you said there s got to be a way. there s a lot of people trying to figure out what it is. governor, we appreciate you being on with us and we ll talk to you soon. thanks. we will continue to follow a developing story, an intruder arrested at the white house. we ll update you on the latest as we get it. and coming up, miracle on the train track. an amazing sorry an amazing story of survival after a train pulverizes a car. and a bill to repeal and
all-for-naught and this whole effort for repeal and replace dies. don t you have to come up with something that can pass the senate? we do. paul ryan told us you have to bend the cost curve down. under obamacare costs are going up by 20%. turning the cost down means you have to get to negative one and reduce prices and premiums and give your family home some relief. that s a hard project. the three buckets we have right now don t assure us of that outcome. we want to go back a notch and make sure we turn that cost curve down and don t want to add any more entitlements. every plan i know of we will take care of pre-existing conditions and make sure the rug is not pulled out from anyone in every plan i know of, when you do policy, aim at the target. if you have 5% of folks over 50% of the cost, let s take them over here and solve that problem
with state risk pools, et cetera, but don t ruin the entire healthcare system for 300 million people. the free market system is what s made us rich. common and india are coming out with a free market system and getting rich. the current legislation, if passed as it is right now, would ruin it for 300 million americans? the law enacted obama is in a death spiral right now, forever you follow that logic where we focus solely on coverage for 18 million but never lowered the cost curve, never brought the cost down and allow people to shop. obama said you can keep your doctor and healthcare plan and we will bend the cost curve down, he did not bend the cost curve down meaning prices double in five years for every american out there. we are in a death spiral. we need fix it but need assurance the insurance regs the biggest cost driver and we re not sure whether the silver, gold platinum stuff is out of
next year if republicans fail to replace obamacare, you, sir, are up for re-election next year. what s your response to this term blood bath ? well, that s his way of saying we need to fulfill our promises. and the promise was that we ve got to repeal obamacare, which again, let me emphasize, is not working right. it s caused all kinds of problems in terms of the cost of insurance, but also in the lack of flexibility for the states. we ve got to bend that cost curve and reduce the costs for the future. we re trying to do that. so you ve got to repeal it, and he s right. if we don t do that, the american people are going to lose faith, so we ve got to do it. at the same time, we ve got to have a strong partnership between the federal government and the governors as to what we replace it with. the governors have worked very
this is a participatory process. this is a bottom-up process. dave brad is a republican congressman from virginia. he s also a member of the house freedom caucus. thanks for your time this afternoon. first of all before we get to the process, will the bill in its current form pass, are the votes there? no, i think there s a surprisingly large number of folks, we re hearing from people across the board, across the spectrum saying there s no way they can get on board. it s too many elements of obamacare present and the most important thing we re paying attention to coverage but obamacare paid attention to coverage eight years ago but we are athey death spirals because no one paid attention to the economics and to the prices and the costs that are increasing at 30%. that s the part we need assurances on. the speaker said we are agetting to bend the cost curve down 25% down, and we haven t seen enough evidence on that major point and so the details don t matter as much as bending that