we can t fix it. the reason were of death spiral s were telling people you it s can buy insurance after you get sick. so guess what. people are waiting to buy into they get sick. that still happens after paul ryan s plan. he doesn t fix that problem at all. ed: the vice president s going to your home state on saturday, they re trying to brush you back a little bit better to react to that but also when you say look it s not a binary choice, you don t have might vote mr. speaker, you might imperil the trump presidency. not atht all. i m a big friend of the president. you won t meet anybody who dislikes obamacare more than me, on a position, i have lived obamacare. it is a disaster, i have voted to repeal it and i will vote again. i will not vote for obamacareil lite stuck on the repeal bill. we will have to separate, repeal, and replace. we have disagreements, serious fundamental policy disagreements with the speaker.
able to confirm that. i sure wouldn t want to go trafficking in that story. that s never been confirmed by a credible source. shannon: we ll see. reporting by the bbc, again, we re waiting for some kind of official answers. by the way, thank you chris and we ll see you on sunday. chris is going to sit down with gary: to talk about obamacare and tax reform. plus, ohio he ll explain how the g.o.p. health care will have to change. you don t want to miss it, see chris at 2:00 and at 10:00 eastern fox news channel and check your local listings for sunday.
senator from arkansas advice and start over. hitting the pause button is like hitting the status quo button. i don t own it s like in arkansas, but in texas, obamacare is a terrible law. it s hurt so many people, small businesses, patients, doctors and nurses, after seven years of being ready for this moment, pausing, slowing down isn t an option. getting it right, i absolutely agree with them, that s why our first steps this week throughout the rest of this month, the house will do its work, make improvements by the way and headed to the senate who have plenty of time to do at this. i will just tell you, after seven years, obamacare collapsing and this being the wrong law, we are going to keep moving forward. leland: there s not a lot of argument among republicans that obamacare is, shall we say, lot of discussiona fan of.
this. people talk about wanting to repeal and go forward. you have to get 60 votes moving forward, that would be a very difficult thing to do and i believe that bill will not be as conservative as this bill. stiglitz been a lot of talk on capitol hill about doing this. some conservatives say it s time to blow up the rules of the senate and do it all right now. i m for doing what needs to be done to make sure the affordable care act, obamacare, is completely repealed and replaced with something that s actually going to bring down costs for families and i represent and that we all campaigned on that simple message, the basic message, and that s sent us here to do. let me do it in rivalry here. a lot of folks in the senate don t appreciate folks in the house talk about blowing up senate rules to get things done. leland: you can imagine that. how do democrats fit into this,
ed: speaker of the house paul ryan says the american health care act is the right way to repeal and replace obamacare. here he is today making the pitch. lower-cost, more choices, not less. universal access to care, these are the four driving principles that we are focused on. lower in cost, having patients and control, universal access to care. this let me walk you through how exactly we propose to do this. the speaker insists he can get the bill through congress but apparently a lot of republicans didn t get that memo, the biggest critic of senator rand paul of kentucky, the bill is dead on arrival and will destroy the party in 2020 if it s past. senator paul joins us now, it s good to see you. he left out a few things in the press conference, it left