passed with 60 votes. you can t get rid of those parts to reconciliation. they talk about how this is going to be, the press is irresponsible and a lot of the talk about repeal. you can t keep the popular parts of obamacare and still call it repeal. it is something else. lastly, because of obamacare s own internal flaws, it s sort of like a suicidal dying patient. the republicans are leaping into be the doctor of record for the patient, and that s a political problem for them. they can make it dive faster but they can t save it and they can t get a replacement for it very soon. bret: are the democrats saying you hold the old maid card? it s incredible. you saw a new frame of obamacare presented today. the democrats are saying, they are labeling it trump care. they were are saying that trump care will make you sick.
care disappeared to and blaming rep chance of. the kaiser foundation which has followed obamacare religiously since it was passed, they did a study on how many people wanted to keep obamacare, tweak it or expand it, that number is 66%. that makes it very difficult for republicans in congress too, dana. sure, exactly. and that s the point we ve been making, that you can say repeal obamacare, because for republicans just on the political side of this, the term obamacare is just anathema, but also for people out there who are seeing their premiums go up, never mind that there are, you know, 20 million people who now have insurance who didn t before, it s difficult. my understanding is that obama, although this legislation is certainly his legacy, the message he s been trying to send to donald trump is, you know, i don t care what you call it, call it trump care, but just
passed with 60 votes. you can t get rid of those parts to reconciliation. they talk about how this is going to be, the press is irresponsible and a lot of the talk about repeal. you can t keep the popular parts of obamacare and still call it repeal. it is something else. lastly, because of obamacare s own internal flaws, it s sort of like a suicidal dying patient. the republicans are leaping into be the doctor of record for the patient, and that s a political problem for them. they can make it dive faster but they can t save it and they can t get a replacement for it very soon. bret: are the democrats saying you hold the old maid card? it s incredible. you saw a new frame of obamacare presented today. the democrats are saying, they are labeling it trump care. they were are saying that trump care will make you sick.
at least gave him enough ele electoral votes to win, what president obama is asking democrats to do is take tea party tactics and make it trump care. mike pence is clearly aware that that is going to be a strategy there and he s trying to make republicans kind of attack that issue, try and make sure democrats stay on defense on that but also on an action item, carol, i m told from somebody in the room mike pence said on his first day in office, president-elect, then-president donald trump will be signing executive orders to help move forward the plan of repeal. obviously you can t repeal anything via executive order. but what you re seeing from the trump administration or soon to be trump administration, carol, at least according to mike pence in this closed door meeting, they re willing to take action immediately, underscoring what they ve said publicly, this is the first item on their agenda, as difficult as it is almost certainly going to be, they want to move on it now. phil, cut
doesn t have something at least as good as to replace it and republicans are going like this. what? what? you mean it s going to cost me? yes, it s going to cost money! obamacare is going to be in place for several years. in some shape or form, right. call it what you want to call it. improve it and call it trump care. it will be around because i know so many republicans who voted for donald trump, i love donald trump! i can t stand barack obama! they are are on obamacare! here is the question if you were donald trump and looking for running in reelection in 2020. would you find it acceptable for the congress to vote to repeal obamacare and come up with a replacement. no. three years later? we will cover replacement in, let s say, 2019? when you re about to run for reelection. not on your life. the democrats would have every