talking to reporters about healthcare. let s listen in. it s not all reflected in the current draft. we re at a different state. there has been a lot of public debate on obamacare for the last seven years. there will continue to be debate. we can get this done. we can get to yes, but the key to getting it done, to getting the yes is we need common sense reforms that lower the cost of premiums so that health insurance is more affordable for families that are struggling. senator cruz, people sometimes when we get to these big bills, they put themselves in play. does don t this provision or whatever. you can trade horses and maybe get those things. it s good optics. i fought for this. look what i got. is none of that going on here? are these things that you oppose or you think by saying no, they will say maybe we can help you on this issue or this issue and maybe get you to yes? i had been clear from day one that i want to get to yes. when i ran for senate, i campaigned on repealing
melissa: so let s talk about the plans detailed with senator john, sir, thank you so much for joining us. hey, thank you for having me. melissa: first of all, let me ask you with those problems that we have heard from senator paul so far, saying that there is not enough of a refueling here, it is unclear how you pay for the things that are in there. and it is a lot of spending. what you think? this is a fundamental change in the obama health care law that has been in my opinion and certainly in wyoming, hurting people all across the country and continues to collapse, so there is an urgency to do something, we eliminate all of the mandates, the individual mandate, the employer mandates, the things that people have hated about obamacare, and we eliminate all of the taxes that president obama and the democrats put on the american people to pay for a system, which let s face after seven
road. so politically, we talked to mitch mcconnell, i spoke with him several months ago about the beginning of this process, and i said what do you want in this bill? so i mean he wants something that can get past. it is unlikely to be perfect, but all these people ran on passing repeal and replacement of obamacare, which by the way, as you have well documented over the years so beautifully, it isn t going to survive give it s not fixed, which makes me wonder what chuck schumer is exactly getting at here. melissa: he is on another planet. beginning with obamacare, so i want to put this to the same test, they are trying to put these very expensive things in the same pool. so they outline how much they re going to spend and where they re going to put them, i have heard other people say there is not enough money, they are going to have to do something i don t know if we can know if the math is there.
here, the long-term state innovations $62 billion, that is one of the risk pools, as you spend that money, it is not going to be enough, like you said, one day to deal with that is to reassure some of the risk. have the republicans talked about that possibility? we talked about a lot, we think it is a system that works very well. basically, we are focused on a couple of things. one is lowering the insurance premium, because they have doubled over the last four years under obamacare. the other things that we need to stabilize the insurance market because as you know there are so many places around the country where people are dumb to one choice or two choices, we only have one in wyoming, and there are over 40 counties which have no choices, there is no excelling. just yesterday, one of the insurance companies pulled out of wisconsin and indiana, so this obamacare collapse is continuing everyday. melissa: without question. we are all familiar with the problem, trying to figure out
astronomically, and here to washington descent, they are talking about over 50% increases, and it is because of the failure of obamacare. melissa: is the question. we will see you, senator, thank you for spending time with us, and thank you for your essay. thank you very much. melissa: so here is a lie look at the centers, trying to go about business, after unveiling the draft of a new health care bill. and dozens of people staging a dine in in front of the senator majority leader s office. we will take you there. plus we are awaiting a briefing on the fbi for the ninth attack on a police officer at a michigan airport, was this an act of terror? e playing. -what? -we gotta go. -where? -san francisco. -when? -friday. we gotta go. [ tires screech ] any airline. any hotel. any time.