obamacare, quote, so that no one is left out in the cold, so that no one is worse off. joining us now is steven brill, author and journalist. steve, your book is the exhaustive study of how obamacare was done, what s in it, how it works. the republicans, paul ryan, have had over five years to figure out the answer to scott pelley s question, which is basically, what do you replace it with, and the ryan rule now is, not one person can be worse off after the republicans have done their replace. that s right. and it s not only the 20 million people who got care. it s the people who didn t suffer from the old preexisting condition rules. it s a pretty broad swath. and as you point out, from the day the law was passed in march of 2010, they have said we have to repeal it. and the democrats have said well, what s your plan?
deliver health insurance to 20 million people. and the smartest guy in the house of representatives knows that. the first bill you intend to pass. the first bill we will be working on is our obamacare legislation. you re going to repeal it first? no. we want to make sure we have a good transition period so people can get better coverage at a better price. so are we talking about months? years? we re still working on that. what we know is we have to make good on this promise. we have to bring relief as fast as possible to people who are struggling under obamacare. today paul ryan said he wants to find a replacement to obamacare, quote, so that no one is left out in the cold, so that no one is worse off. joining us now is steven brill, author and journalist. steve, your book is the exhaustive study of how obamacare was done, what s in it, how it works.
the simple dna test that can tell them where they came from -by revealing their ethnic mix. you ll save 10%-and they ll have a new story to tell. order now at ancestrydna.com and save 10%. so repeal and replace has become repeal and wait. remember how simple it all used to sound? real change begins with immediately repealing and replacing the disaster known as obamacare. [cheers and applause] that was a long time ago. about a week before the election. and here is donald trump five days after the election. we re going to do it simultaneously. it will be just fine. we re not going to have like a two-day period and we re not going to have a two-year period where there s nothing. it will be repealed and replaced
congressional election. and in that three-year period, the republicans are hoping they can come up with something they can call a replacement for obamacare, but there is no replacement that any republican has ever proposed that would deliver health insurance to 20 million people. and the smartest guy in the house of representatives knows that. the first bill you intend to pass. the first bill we will be working on is our obamacare legislation. you re going to repeal it first? no. we want to make sure we have a good transition period so people can get better coverage at a better price. so are we talking about months? years? we re still working on that. what we know is we have to make good on this promise. we have to bring relief as fast as possible to people who are struggling under obamacare. today paul ryan said he wants to find a replacement to
so repeal and replace has become repeal and wait. remember how simple it all used to sound? real change begins with immediately repealing and replacing the disaster known as obamacare. [cheers and applause] that was a long time ago. about a week before the election. and here is donald trump five days after the election. we re going to do it simultaneously. it will be just fine. we re not going to have like a two-day period and we re not going to have a two-year period where there s nothing. it will be repealed and replaced and we ll know. and it will be great health care for much less money. but now congressional republicans who have been pretending for years that they just want to repeal obamacare knowing that they couldn t as long as there was a democrat in