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Of an all hands on deck meeting at the white house. A Health Reform deal. Obamacare reform now hangs in the balance. Were going to bring you any further comments from the president and the senators, if they have them. Now we have gop leadership delaying the obamacare replacement vote until after the july 4th recess. We will not be on the bill this week, but were still working toward getting at least 50 people in a comfortable place. We want to make sure we are preserving the access people have for coverage for preexisting conditions, and also, we want to make sure that medicaid is sustainable, not just for today but for the future as well. As i said while it may look a little bit, we are intent on rescuing americans from a failed system that has driven up their cost and made it more difficult for them. We eliminate the mandate that people across the country hate that you have to buy a governmentapproved product. We eliminate all the taxes, and we return a lot of authority to individual
The markets will continue to collapse and will have to sit down with senator schumer and my suspicion is that any negotiation with the democrats will include none of the reforms that we would like to make both on the market side and the medicaid side. So for all of those reasons, we need to come up with a solution the American People elected us to do that and were working hard to get there. Heather mike emanuel is live for us on capitol hill. Good morning. Senate Republican Leaders are hoping to make significant progress in the coming days. It will be voting on Health Care Reform after the fourth of july recess. As you mentioned, there are at least nine republican senators opposed to the bill as of late yesterday. One of the conservative critics talked about repealing the very worst parts of obamacare. Lets repeal that, lets narrow the focus, but lets not create some new superstructure of the federal government involvement. If that includes democrats, lets do that and conservatives con