monday night being rushed through in this way. mark-up is tomorrow, one of the most effective criticisms of obamacare which seems to be all these deals under the table and late at night and rush votes. i wonder what s going to happen. this is a big moment though and you saw serious members of the house, jim jordan and serious senators for the first time breaking with their republican president, president trump. and let me get your take on this, you worked on obamacare, you know how hard it is to make the sausage, right, to get something through. republicans would say, look, they ve got the majorities, they can do this. it might take a while, but they can do it. yeah, i think what you ve seen over the last 24 hours is how difficult this process is. i mean, we passed the affordable care act and there was ewe nam anymorety on the divisions. and it was not an easy feat. it is really hard. but we did not have this level of disagreement. there is not just disagreement between the trump a
unelected bureaucrats in washington have the ability to tell you what you can and can t buy for your family in health care. one of the most personal decisions families make. this bill finally starts the process of not only repealing obamacare, but also replacing it with reforms that put patients back in charge of their health care decisions. that lower costs for families. let them actually choose the decisions between them and their doctor which are so personal. and so as we start this process, the people in this room, the chief deputy whips are the ones that are going to be working directly with members to ultimately pass this fwoil your desk so that we can quickly provide that relief from obamacare to the people of the united states. and i know we are honored to have our former house colleague and now our vice president of the united states whose been involved in this fight from the beginning as well, vice president mike pence joining us too. thank you, vice president. thank you ve
we re going to have tremendous i really believe we re going to have tremendous support, i m already seeing the support not only in this room, i m seeing it from everybody and i m seeing it from look now old news i got elected to a certain extent. pretty good little chunk based on the fact, repeal and replace obamacare. and many of you people are in the same boat. very important so let s get it done. thank you all very much for being here. thank you. okay. thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. okay. let me walk you through what we just saw. that s president trump at the white house meeting with members of the republican house leadership. they call them the whips office. those are the folks on capitol hill who are noent kind of whip up the votes and help pass legislation through the house. you heard from steve scalise, he s the house majority whip and you heard from the president saying we have a lot of support saying that this is a plan that we can back. i m pr
the gentleman from ohio, jim jordan. our goal is simple to bring down the cost of insurance for working families and middle class families across the country. in an effort to do that, we think you have to get rid of obamacare completely. tomorrow i will introduce the bill that every single republican voted on just 15 months ago, the bill that actually repeals obamacare. our plan has always been repeal in one piece of legislation and replace in another. that replacement we talked about a few weeks ago is the bill sponsored by dr. paul in the senate and mark sanford in the house. there is three plans out there. collins plan, if you like obamacare you can keep obamacare. there was the leadership plan that was brought forward which i believe when you look through it is obamacare in a different form. then there is our plan, the one i think is consistent with what we told the voters we were going do. repeal obamacare, replace it with a market centered patient
plan. house leadership has a replacement plan. i m sure democrats would like to go back and vote on the aca again. vote on all the replacement plans and see what happens. let s vote on clean repeal. the only way i think this gets done is to separate the issues. separate out clean repeal from replacement. let s got get it done. repeal unites us. i think we can get tha done. with that i ll intro senor mike lee from utah. what s been introduced in the house in the last 24 hours is not the obamacare replacement plan. not the obamacare repeal plan we have been 40e7ing for. this is instead a step in the wrong direction. and as much as anything it s a missed opportunity. look. we ve seen what happens when congress decides to put forward a plan negotiated behind closed doors where members are told you have got to pass this bill in