they want government healthcare. it is not working. what are we doing? replacing with a law that will actually work. don t miss brian s full interview with the speaker coming up. heather: bernie sanders and his wife getting high-priced legal health, jane sanders being investigated for possible bank fraud and bernie is dodging our questions about it. reporter: bernie sanders refused multiple times to answer questions from fox news s carol rowland about the fbi investigation reportedly come to focus on sanders s wife. cbs is reporting on this, you believe it is politically motivated? they are interested in the fact the republican leadership is proposing legislation which would throw millions of people
shannon: the reality is the president is celebrating. as outlined it has a long way to go. there are democrats who hate it in the senate and republican skeptics, too and they re starting fresh and not work from the house bill. they re doing their own thing. how heavy is the lift? the lift is very heavy. you have two sets of republicans in the senate. you ve got people like rand paul who you heard saying look, the basic idea of obamacare, which is a government healthcare is still there. let s make it clear. he thinks it s terrible. so do people like ted cruz and mike lee. more conservatives, you have more moderates like rob portman in states where there was medicaid expansions and a million people got healthcare. this would roll that back. and they will be very concerned about that. in addition to that, just what you heard from bill cassidy, a senator from louisiana who said look, we ll take good ideas from the house bill but we re going to pass our own bill. there are republicans i
are you going to delay the mandate to individuals by government healthcare or pay tax? no, sir. are you going to delay the open enrollment beyond march 31s march 31st? no, sir. experts say this is another change to one of the law s core points and it is more than just a minor tweak. it is ironic it makes obamacare itself the hardship. slightly out of line but i think it is beyond the reach of irony so you didn t quite see it. all you have to do is say this is hard on me. you sign a paper you don t have to provide any documentation. it is essentially a cancellation that we mandate. they don t know how many have paid.
that union is opposing it. saying they have already got government healthcare for their employees. they don t want to enter the insurance exchanges. meanwhile, the white house is saying, wait a second. the law is aimed at helping people who don t have insurance at all and republicans on capitol hill are launching a new effort to stop the whole healthcare law itself saying that they want to attach language defunding the president s healthcare law to that continuing resolution that would keep the government open. take a listen. millions of americans, they will have access to affordable care that they don t have at their place of work or that they haven t been able to afford in the past. if republicans in both houses simply refuse to vote for any continuing resolution that contains further funding for further enforcement of obama care, we he can stop it. but republican senator richard burr said he thought that was the dumbest idea he ever heard to try to attach the president s healt
part-time workers currently have healthcare. interestingly enough, 15% of them are offered healthcare but only half of them choose to take it. for those folks now they would automatically be eligible for state one healthcare. you get some sort of healthcare right away. that s the good news. the bad news is what it means for those part time workers and how much they are actually going to take home because there is that caveat in there that if you have more than 50 employees who work. you the employer are responsible for providing healthcare. what would you rather have health insurance or the paycheck that you had before and the wages you had before? you are making a lot less money but oh good you have government healthcare. i don t know if people are going to feel like that s a net better situation. some people think that is crying wolf. the truth is we have seen major employers who have publicly said this ising they