process, no hearings and the only thing they have, the only recourse they have is amendments essentially. does chris murphy have a point in that? i m not aware of what happened or didn t happen in the senate processes. what i can tell you is in the house, we had numerous hearings through our committees of jurisdiction. we have talked about fixing obamacare for years, since i have been here, four and a half years, we have been talking about many of the problems. i actually passed bills that are signed into law that provided fixes to the affordable care act so we had an open process. the problem you see, though, is that a narrative wants to be built by the opposition that we are not allowing open access, we are not allowing opportunities to discuss. frankly, what i haven t seen from the other side in the house is a willingness to actually fix the broken system that leaves millions of americans without health insurance or with insurance they can t afford to use. congressman, do you re
have at least from my perspective somebody who has not been a fan of the president to see more republicans elected in congress do exactly what you re talking about. but the truth is them have made a bet they can get some policies passed. and you know, they have gotten very, very close on health care. tonight has been a demoralizing setback which may be the end of health care. if all of these policies unravel. at what cost. at the cost of repealing and fixing obamacare. something that s run on for serve years, despite donald trump before he had a reality, a chance at the presidency. i mean i understand it s easy to say they should be righteous but at the same time, the reason 80% of republicans are for him is not because they approve of his behavior. it s not because they think he s of moral standings. > that s why people voted for him. no, they believed a lot of republicans believed he was a guy that was going to be in the executive branch and help get some of these positions pas
i know nobody likes to hear this because this isn t sort of the pure and righteous thing and it would be so heartening to have at least from my perspective somebody who has not been a fan of the president to see more republicans elected in congress do exactly what you re talking about. but the truth is them have made a bet they can get some policies passed. and you know, they have gotten very, very close on health care. tonight has been a demoralizing setback which may be the end of health care. if all of these policies unravel. at what cost. at the cost of repealing and fixing obamacare. despite donald trump before he even had a reality chance at the presidency. i mean i understand it s easy to say they should be righteous but at the same time, the reason 80% of republicans are for him is not because they approve of his behavior or think he s of moral standing. > that s why people voted for him. no, they believed a lot of republicans believed he was a guy that was going to be
care for fixing obamacare. all the other candidates. he was the primary guy who said i m not going to touch medicare or medicaid. the republican party is divided. exactly. that s the problem. that s exactly why we re here today. that s exactly why we re here in this moment. frankly, this is a deeply tragic moment from the perspective of a center right person who believes we should have as close to universal health care as possible through the free market and free market solutions. and that fixing some of the problems with obamacare was necessary but ultimately, reorganizing the incentive structure, the transparency in the health care system, and the ability to be able to truly purchase and have freedom in had your health care rather than moving closer and closer to single payer which we have in a third of our economy when you consider veterans and veterans affairs and medicare and medicaid. bakari, i want to hear from
since it got passed probably will never end up succeeding in destroying it. and the question was why republicans didn t see the writinging on wall earlier. this has been incredibly unpopular from the beginning and not what donald trump ran on. i mean, if there was a message for republicans in donald trump s primary campaign it s that what the republican s party s own voters were motivated by were issues like immigration and not an effort to repeal a health care bill that for all its flaws is benefiting a lot of them. margaret? the only place i push back on that is certainly trump voters may have different motivations for voting for trump than traditional republicans. remember, 90% of republicans voted ford donald trump. even though this man professed everybody knew but just as many republicans have in the republican party voted for a free market solution to health care for fixing obamacare. all the other candidates. he was the primary guy who said i m not going to touch medicar