in november. this has to be fixed. do not sit around and say, oh, we ve got obamacare. democrats, you have to get this fixed. but the people who are watching, the people who are members of the resistance, and we re talkitalk talking tens of millions of people now, we have to shift part of our focus away from congress who we have been barraging for the last two months with phone calls, visits, letters. we have to go after the insurance companies because these private profit-making insurance companies are going to do everything in their power to do what trump said is going to happen. they re going to try to explode or implode obamacare. so here s a question about the political lesson because you and i spoke i think it was the day after the election and there was a great feeling of people were stunned i think in the broad center left people were upset and confused and angry and one of the things i kept thinking about was how
your lives a living hell and they tried to do in the the last 4 hours in a way that hadn t been reported on much but look on what they were going to vote on today and they couldn t get enough republicans to vote for this hateful mean-spirited bill. so now the resistance has to step forward. we need to do two things, chris. number one we need to push for single payer insurance, medicare for all, the kind the canadians have, the kind that every other civilized democracy on the planet has. we have to push for this because we need to fix these parts of obamacare that did cost us votes in november. this has to be fixed. do not sit around and say, oh, we ve got obamacare. democrats, you have to get this fixed. but the people who are watching, the people who are members of the resistance, and we re talking tens of millions of people now, we have to shift part of our focus away from congress who we have been barraging for the last two months with phone calls, visits,
will be and an in-depth range of options. lawmakers gave health and human services secretary tom price a standing ovation before price spoke about what he can do on his own with the power that comes with his position to got obamacare. another critical player in the effort to dismantle the affordable care act had a confirmation hearing this morning. nominated to run the centers for medicaid and medicaid services. patients and their doctor should be making decisions about their health care, not the federal government. the irs isn t waiting for congress to chip away at the aca, deciding not to reject tax returns that don t reveal whether a person has insurance. some insurance companies can t wait much longer. aetna s ceo said policy is in a death spiral. they are supposed to have
their plan to repeal the affordable care act. we haven t seen it. nancy pelosi said about obamacare, you have to pass the bills you can find out what s in it. republicans are still trying to figure out what to put in their own bill so they can pass it. bret: peter doocy, thank you. asking the u.s. supreme court to reverse a decision today over the refusal to provide flowers for a gay wedding. the supreme court ruled she broke antidiscrimination and disk termination laws. she contends the wedding was incompatible with her beliefs. international news. a car bomb in a baghdad neighborhood killed 47 people and wounded 60 others. isis is claiming responsibility. iraqi officials say the bombing targeted car dealerships. four other attacks around
campaign of leaks out there. some of them classified, some not. some just room a real stuff. all intended to damage him and perhaps undermine his presidency. bret: this is the president on the tax plan and obamacare. tax reform is going to happen fairly quickly. we are doing obamacare in the final stages. we should be submitting the plan in march. bret: as he lays it out, sounds like it s going to be rapid-fire once they get to obamacare first in early march and then tax reform and infrastructure. at the republican retreat in philadelphia we heard that speaker ryan had laid out an aggressive timetable for the repeal and replacement of obamacare and then we have been led to understand it wasn t going to move that fast and even the president told bill o reilly it could move into next year. now we are back to mid-march from the president. i think that might have come as something of a thunderbolt.