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did you make that? i did. n t. house speaker paul ryan commenting on the republican plan to replace obamacare. let s take a listen. and replace obamacare. it delivers relief to americans fed up with skyrocketing premium ands fewer choices. it moves us away from the broken status quo toward a better patient centered system. that means lower costs for hard working families. it means more choices and competition so that you can buy the plan that you need and that you can afford. it means greater control of your health care. as you know, this is the culmination of years long of an inclusive process that we have been doing here for years. last june as part of our better way agenda, we put forward our vision for health care. after the election, we began to
obamacare and replacing it with something that will work for them. but remember, this is just the first step. this is just the first step. this legislation begins the process of transforming the health insurance market. it also amounts to the biggest entitlement reform since bill clinton signed welfare reform into law, because we re going to restore to the states authority that s been taken away from them, make them have to not come here to washington and ask some bureaucrat for permission to do everything. and instead allow them to innovate, to be creative, to get their hands around patients who need their help the most. and to best use those dollars. and with medicaid, it amounts to, per capita allotment so they ll know what they can expect. it works for them. we ve worked closely with the governors. so, tomorrow at 11:00 or 10:30, we ll kickoff our markup. we ll begin this process in an open and transparent way. but let me say again, look, we re going to make sure those who have pre
i believe in going through the process the way it was meant to go through. we didn t write this bill in my office on christmas eve like they did in harry reid s office and jamb it through to an unsuspecting country. it goes to the budget committee the next week and the rules committee the week after that which is regular order. so, i m excited we re doing this the right way. we re doing this out in plain sight. go to read the bill.gop. what i want to tell my fellow citizens as the nightmare of obamacare is about to end, we are doing what we said we would do in this campaign which is repeal and replace this awful law that is crashing. let me say one more thing. let s not forget, obamacare is collapsing. obamacare isn t staying. if we did nothing, the law would collapse and leave everybody without affordable health care. we are doing a act of mercy by repealing this law and replacing it with patient-centered health
this route from koch brothers from american prosperity, a football field way from the capital building. they are going to have the shortest lived majority in the modern era if they fail to fully repeal obamacare. reporter: moderates have long been wary of looming democratic attacks on how many people the bill will actually cover. something sources tell cnn the congressional budget office has told gop leaders will likely fall far short of obamacare s projections. is it your view that the metric of how many people are covered is not the proper way to gauge the success of a health care proposal? well, you know, it s interesting because if you go back to what cbo predicted would be covered on the exchanges today, they are only off by about a 2 to 1 ratio. there are 21 million they projected would be covered. 10 million are actually covered. reporter: conservatives remain increasingly skeptical. the refundable tax credits that would replace obamacare subsidies and provide aid for