world war ii when we tethered health insurance to employment, we screwed up this market. and the obamacare process was not brave enough to go after what all pretty much all health policy experts would point to as the original problem in health policy. both senators opposing the bill, and state and medicaid doctors asking for the cbo score. we just heard from kasie. we likely won t get cbo estimates on how much the new health care bill costs. this is what bernie sanders this is what was this is what lindsey graham said about bernie sanders plan earlier this week, e.j. if you believe repealing and replacing obamacare is a good idea, this is your best and only chance to make it happen. because everything else has failed except this approach, which will work if we get behind it. if you want a single payer health health care system, this is your worst nightmare. bernie, this ends your dream of
so, i think they made a big difference. but he admits that this is just to the first step. other steps before president trump s desk are the senate, where it will be changed, then, it will bounce around until both jean chambers agree. senator lindsey graham has already tweeted, a bill finalized yesterday has not been scored, and my mom allowed, and three hours final debate should be viewed with caution. and senator john mccain doesn t like that the house doesn t know how much their own health care bill costs. they voted before the congressional budget office put a price tag on it. i don t approve of it. whatever they want to do. they spend their time criticizing me, so, [laughs] there were conflicting reports today, this afternoon, about a big celebration for republicans here at the capital. republican congressman john duffy told me on his way out of the house chamber that he heard there was going to be champagne
really nice this week, so a couple days ago robert gibbs was half joking maybe we should take class outside, and everybody said, let s do it. the next thing you know last night he puts out a notice saying press briefing in the rose garden. i kept thinking right up until the minute it started all the secret service agents started showing up and whatnot in the rose garden and i kept seeing the president through the glass in the oval office, mr. president, i hope you do come out soon and answer questions, we haven t done a full-blown news conference since last summer, he s had small press availabilities at the white house. but maybe today when he got good news from the cbo, but it was just robert gibbs, he had big news at the top saying this trip has been canceled. the asia trip we ve been talking about. you are talking about the cbo, the congressional budget office, i ve had a lot of questions on facebook and to my e-mail, why do we all wait for the congressional budget office to tell