about the way the senate and the way congress has handled this. tim phillips, president of the koch brothers network, americans for prosperity, said this is an epic failure by republicans but it s time to pivot to tax reform. there s no good time to pivot. hugh, can republicans stop and say oh, well, we tried. they can t for the reason helene just said. people s health care is collapsing in small and large ways. premiums are skyrocketing. i had a minor injury. i ve been to the emergency room, two doctors and two rounds of antibiotics over a month. it s cost me $650 out of pocket. i can afford that. most americans can t. they can t do that, the system is broken. cornell that s why getting to the conference committee was important so they could begin fixing the regular order of which susan collins speaks and of which the constitution doesn t detail other than house and senate getting to a conference is going to kill people if they don t hurry up. but what if the house had been gone
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we could do on a reinsurance pool, which i am particularly interested in to preserve coverage for people with pre-existing conditions and lowering premiums. but most of the input that i ve had from the white house has been from the vice president and from the administrator of the medicare/medicaid programs. there were a lot of side shows this week. one of them had to do with a hot mic moment that caught you and senator reed talking about the threat that a republican member of congress made at you. let me but there was another portion of the tape that you have not referenced at all. here it is. yes, i think he s i think he s crazy. and i i don t say that. no, lightly. lightly as kind of, yeah, you know, a goofy guy. you appear to be referencing the president there with senator reed. can you expound upon that a
part of it, obviously, is that the president wants to bring a new direction. and what that means is making sure his legislative agenda gets done. and what s very important to the president is fulfilling the campaign promises which he outlined. we saw this week a legislative defeat in congress for the repeal and replace of obamacare and that s something that he campaigned on. reince was brought in, as you know, as someone who could work with the members of the house and the senate to get that legislative agenda done. with that not being accomplished, the president made a decision to move in a new direction to bring a seriousness to his chief of staff and a pivot so that he can have his agenda at the forefront of what he wants to get done. given that reince priebus and the president weren t always very close, you were you had a front row seat to that at times. the tense relationship between when he was chairman at the rnc and your campaign and with candidate trump. in hindsight was
not do comprehensive well. what we need to do is to go through the normal process, identify the problems, have hearings, hear from experts, hear from all the stakeholders, and produce a series of bills to fix the real flaws in the affordable care act. first on my list would be to stabilize the insurance markets to make sure that people have access to insurance. are you confident, though, that secretary price at hhs is implementing is trying to keep this law afloat, that is doing everything he can to create certainty, or are you concerned that there are some aspects of hhs implementation right now that are actually undermining the law, attempting to create more problems in order to, say, force congress to act? i m troubled by the uncertainty that has been created by the administration