2009. we ve got to have some bipartisanship. all of you saw my speech, which i will be glad to provide you with every recording of, in case you missed it, in case you have insomnia, but the point is, but the point is, we ve got to have republicans and democrats sit down together and come up with a bill that gets a majority in both houses. otherwise, we re going to see this continuous gridlock. and i don t want to go on and on, but, when we passed obamacare in 2009, it split us. it split us dramatically, and it split us for years. it s time we sat down together and came up with a piece of legislation that addresses this issue. and don t think this issue is just out there sitting by itself. in my state, we are down to one health care provider in every county.
i am not assured by the house there will be a conference for my idea and other ideas can be taken up so we can actually replace obamacare. i am not going to vote for a bill that is terrible policy and horrible politics, just because we have to get something done. so all three of us want to move the process along. we were encouraged by our leadership to be team players. they re coming up with a skinny bill that changes by the moment, but none of us believe it actually replaces obamacare. neither does the freedom caucus, and i need assurances from the speaker of the house, and his team, that if i vote for the skinny bill, it will not become the final product, it will be the vehicle to have a conference between the house and senate, where we consider, can consider a true replacement. if i don t get those assurances, i am a no because i am not going to vote for a pig and a poke, and i m not going to tell people
sanctions bill. presumably that s going to pass overwhelmingly. yeah, that should pass. and there was a bit of a scuttle related to that as well because there was a dust-up between bob korker and between kevin mccarthy the house majority leader. they settled their differences on that and now the bill will finally get passed. and that s something that should have overwhelming bipartisan support, the the first incarnation of this bill passed through the senate with only two senators voting against it. so, that s something that should sail through. and then it ll be headed towards president trump s desk, and obviously we ve heard some mixed signals from the white house as to whether or not he will sign it into law. so that will be a rare, bipartisan moment up here on capitol hill over the next several hours. a lot going on over there. thanks very much, ryan, dana, we re going to get back to you. i want to bring in jim heinz of connecticut right now. he s a member of the house intellig
i am 99% sure that we will get a memo saying that the graham, cassidy, heller, maybe johnson bill will be conferenced. and that block has been checked, and i really wouldn t too much worried about anything above that. until i got a call from mark meadows. and i got a call who believes gnat skinny bill is not a replacement. that obamacare is collapsing and the skinny bill won t prevent it from collapsing and makes everything worse. so that part of it i think we re good to go. i just need an assurance and what s an insurance? who asked that. here s what an assurance would be what is the guarantee? blood oath, what s it going to be? i m serious. it s a like pornography, you ll know it when you see it. why are we a little
again, senator graham, nelson, heller and i have been working on a provision which will frankly take longer or it scored, process as you know requires that to occur, and they could be overlaid upon the bill that would be passed tonight. and in that, we hope to take all the dollars that would go to estate. and deliver to the state the state would have to use their own health care, but then allow that state to come up with a solution, particular for their state. what happens in alaska with less than one person per square mile is different than what happens in washington d.c. over 100,000 people per square mile which is different than south carolina, louisiana, wisconsin, and arizona. those states should decide what s best for those states. we can do that through process. if indeed we pass the bill tonight. and then it goes to conference committee, and then we can overlay it. we think this is the way to fulfill the promise, president trump made to the american people to actually repeal. a