with me, congressman from the great state of maryland. congressman, is it now likely after today that the democrats and republicans might get together and find ways to repair or fix or amend or tinker with obamacare? that s a great point, because if you look at why we try created obamacare in the first place is to deal with escalating premiums and it takes time. what really concerned me was in the last six years when the democrats were in charge, we voted six times to resolve this bill, not one time did we try to resolve the issues with obamacare. now when republicans have authority and control, it s a bill that was put on very quickly. i look at it i know the president just said that democrats own it. democrats don t own it. health care is about the united
so clearly when it comes to health care, this idea of trying to solve this problem, is much more complicated, to use the president s word, than either the white house or the hill seem to understand. the president blames the democrats, and says the big losers are schumer and pelosi and the house democrats, and he predicts when obamacare collapses, it s going on the on their watch. but the fact that the republicans tried to tweak it, aren t the facts that their fingerprints are all over it now and their ability to do something magical with it now, isn t it now trumpcare, ryancare. they ll just say washington has failed us again and nothing has changed. the president said today i didn t promise to get this done by the 64th day. i don t want to be impertinent and correct the record, but he said on day one he would produce a plan that would repeal and
dire straits or more serious straits and not do anything to fix it. when it comes right down to when if you re a sick citizen, or you have a sick family member, it feels like everyone s being gamed on this, but these are real problems. many people lost plans they bought under president obama, many people had their premiums skyrocket. they don t go because the co-pay gets so high. you got a $12,000 premium and a $12,000 deductible. you have to spend $24,000 before you get any benefit. someone like holland peterson said that you talk about affordable care act, this is not affordable. we talk about health care providers and all of this. there are always big cbos and all of this, but i think a lot
but he did do it first, and there were some big ups and downs and there was a big expectation republicans would finally succeed in repealing it for something else and they have failed to do that and now they agree that there s going to be a long period of time, at least months and months, where we are living with obamacare as the speaker said today. this has many things for many people, obamacare, and there are a lot of glitches to it. and the republicans said they were going to repeal it. and i think they were really going to not repeal it, they were going to fix it. because you don t take health care back from the american people. as i was saying in that earlier segment, if you didn t have to worry about this. obamacare passed with 60 votes in the senate the first time. this time they re trying to repeal it with 51 votes. and they re talking about all the things they want to do and
their ideological opposition. i think he was rather humble today. he s been humble. i mean i was surprised by that, i mean i thought he looked quite presidential taking that defeat. i do think he did. he deflected blame and said that democrats didn t vote. well, there was that. as you said to steve, that was not in the cards, democratic support. we re going to wait and see what happens tomorrow morning, is there a tweet storm at 6:00 and we have a different presidential tone, but, you re right, he was subdued today. we all watch our twitter feeds like crazy, anyway, thank you, john. speaker paul ryan said that obamacare is still the law of the land, still seven years later, we will look at how we got here. that s next. hi my name is tom.