any piece of legislation there doing. so what happens coming and going out. congress can ignore those numbers if they want. and set their own policy because after all they are the people who did put their ideas before the voters. absolutely. and i was try to remind people that the cbo paul: let s start with the two big numbers to pay the 24 million and loss coverage. what do you make of that prediction? seems to be looking at the report that it is basically most of it on the fact that the mandate to buy insurance would go away. do you agree with that? yes and the easiest way to see that is to look at next year, 2018. when most of obamacare would be in place. it would be the same subsidies in insurance regulations.
law. so there s a political urgency to move to something else. so i have a full expectation that they will pass a bill that repeals it. at that point, they will set out to craft a replacement plan and in the interim they will leave in place some of the components of the affordable care act. the subsidies. some insurance regulations. which they are unlikely to repeal in the special procedures they call reconciliation. there s going to be no abrupt change. there s no going back to 2007. there s no scare tactics. douglas, how can you say there will be no abrupt change if they repeal it and don t leave, you know, most of it intact because if you ask the architects of obama you can easily. let me just finish. if you ask the architect, they say one part is often reliant on the other. so how can people be sure they will be covered in the interim before something else is passed? so you pass a bill in 2017 that says effective january 1st, 2020, the following provisions
this is their first priority. once the lame duck session is over, they will begin trying to repeal it, however, they acknowledge that they don t have the votes to repeal it wholesale. that means they will have to do it piecemeal. which some democrats say will bog down a congress for the next two years if the republicans have their way. and house speaker designate john boehner says this is exactly what they re going to do. they ve got to do it and he says he absolutely will not do it. and take it listen to his sit-down with bret baier, earlier this week. there s a lot of tricks up our sleeps how we can dent this, kick it, slow it down, to make sure it never happens. trust me, i withant it make sur this health care bill never ever is implemented. what specifically are they going to do to cut. because it s going after the money in the purse strings and number one they want to stop the insurance regulations, they don t want any funding of the insurance regulations and don t want any
of the conservative house freedom caucus along while not alienating more moderate republicans, an effort that ultimately failed. so what does the defeat mean for president trump and the gop agenda? let s ask wall street journal deputy editor dan henninger, washington columnist kim strassel, editorial board member joe rego and columnists mary anastasia to gradely and bill mcgurn. well, they came very close to getting a majority. as recently as wednesday. then what happened was you had hfc, house freedom caucus, keep upping their demands, keep moving the goalpost in a way that alienated the moderate members paul: they tried the get concessions for their agenda, and it unraveled the bill. right. they said we want to repeal more of obamacare s insurance regulations.