them, perhaps more effectively. the problem with that, this is where i think donald trump will face some political heat as he goes through this in an executive way is the replace part. it is one thing to start chipping away at certain things by executive order, but you do need congress to replace parts of what you re dismantling in terms of obamacare. if you are keeping score at home, the president is saving christmas but killing obamacare. i think honestly, that was one of the thrusts of the speech. margaret, when we talk about obamacare, in framing it with every other subject he brought up here, you get the sense that he is speaking directly to his base, trying to deliver to them. he certainly is focusing on his base. when you look at the context of who is in that room today, who is at that gathering throughout the day, it is not only the audience but some of the other speakers that are important to
let s watch. what it s going to do is it s going to be time to negotiate health care that s going to be good for everybody. we just about have the votes. now, if the democrats were smart, what they do is come and negotiate something where people could really get the kind of health care that they deserve. but for months the president has broadcast his desire to sabotage obamacare. he can t prevend he wants to fix it. let s take a look. you know, i said from the beginning let obamacare implode and then do it. i turned out to be right. let obamacare implode. let obamacare fail. it will be a lot easier. we re not going to own it. i m wants going to own it. i can tell you the republicans are not going to own it. we ll let obamacare fail and then the democrats are going to come to us and they re going to say how do we fix it or how do we come up with a new plan. this is not a republican health care. this is not anything but a
democrat health care. but jennifer, now he s decided to put his blood all over it because he s the one now cutting off the subsidies. everybody every everybody knows that s the heart of the program, helping people pay for health insurance and he says we re wnt going to do that anymore. when he says they ll come to me and we ll try to fix it, he has no idea how to fix this thing. that s ridiculous. there is no affirmative reason for, as you say, pulling back these subsidies for the insurance companies other than to we can it. and what s more is that there has been a bipartisan discussion going on in congress between senator alexander and senator murray. that they put the kibosh on because they wanted to blow up obamacare. every legislative issue he s attempted this year he s a loser. he got gorsuch in and they blew apart the filibuster rule. nothing else has passed. there s no tax bill,
mean side. when he threw at little marco and crooked hillary now throwing at the millions out there. he doesn t like obama so he killed health for those who no longer have subsidies to afford health insurance. he doesn t like obama so he sabotaged the iranian deal and he doesn t like the people in puerto rico and he talks about dumping them leaving them marooned out in the at lantsic ocean and he doesn t like kim jong-un so he wants to destroy everybody and in. is this a reality tv show where the worst thing that could happen is to be fired or does he know that killing obamacare is the chance of a real family to afford a child s operation, there are people in puerto rico part of america he promised to make great who are going without electricity and water and does he know what that is like or
just how dogged hhs has been in attempting to dismantle a program that it is statutorily tasked with administering. that s right. hhs has on its website a number of videos not talking about how to sign up for health care, but talking about how obamacare has failed. i mean, they re basically their entire message almost every week, you get another press release about how obamacare isn t working. now they re taking every effort as you just detailed, to make sure it doesn t work, in particular, to make sure that healthy people don t sign up. sick people are going to find a way to sign up, they know they need insurance, they want it. it s the healthy people who have to be reminded that the time for open enrollment is different and that there are different deadlines, so they may need extra help signing up. those are the ones who are not going to sign up as a result of all of this. and what does that mean for people who are, who need health insurance, who are purchasing it through the e