committee and ways and means committee with unanimous republican support and they discussed working together on additional legislation to work towards turning healthcare into a system that works for every individual family and business and to work and act to keep the promise to the american people. those attending the meeting the vice president, congresswoman black, and congressman brady, and and chairman good lat of the judiciary committee. in addition to the hill outreach. department of health and hucman services have met regarding the bill. the president is commit todted making it better for a more affordable accessible health care.
i have no doubt he will take a victory lap here, as david said, as they should, the acadeeconom whether the promise to get rid of regulations or tax reform coming, the confidence with the numbers. as he becomes more popular these numbers will help his approval, it makes it a little easier to get major reforms like the tax reform and obamacare changes. in february 2016 and february 2015, the number was almost exactly the same, 235,000 jobs created, as it is in 2007. i ll make a prediction to you on cnn. this summer we will get the summer of we ve been waiting seven years. this is why healthcare is so important because his ability to get to the agenda items that is fueling a lot of this confidence
tax rate from 35% to 25%. are you with him? possible. we ve been talking about streamlining it a long time. i m ready to go. on healthcare, repeal and replace obamacare. democrats uniformly oppose all of this. you re among the democrats, you oppose it, right? absolutely. we sat in a 27 hour hearing this week and hardly did anything to help the healthcare information. a lot of republicans told stories about increased premiums and democrats told stories about people relying on healthcare to take care of their families and kids. it s brought a lot of coverage to a lot of people. the deal they propose interst e interstated bay standard&pores, estimated by standard&poors. brooking institution, 15 million estimated off coverage. we just saw the melina healthcare ceo say we will see in the individual market, the prices in the individual market
with state risk pools, et cetera, but don t ruin the entire healthcare system for 300 million people. the free market system is what s made us rich. common and india are coming out with a free market system and getting rich. the current legislation, if passed as it is right now, would ruin it for 300 million americans? the law enacted obama is in a death spiral right now, forever you follow that logic where we focus solely on coverage for 18 million but never lowered the cost curve, never brought the cost down and allow people to shop. obama said you can keep your doctor and healthcare plan and we will bend the cost curve down, he did not bend the cost curve down meaning prices double in five years for every american out there. we are in a death spiral. we need fix it but need assurance the insurance regs the biggest cost driver and we re not sure whether the silver, gold platinum stuff is out of
room. white house press secretary, sean spicer, and we ll bring it to you once it begins. the bill regarding obamacare is likely to come up. on my 50th day in office i want to talk about an issue of paramount importance to families across our nation. healthcare. seven years ago this month, obamacare was signed into law. house republicans have put forward plan that gets rid of this terrible law and replaces it with reforms that empower states and consumers. the house plan follows the guidelines i laid out in my recent address to congress. expanding choice, lowering costs and providing healthcare access for all. let s bring in our white house correspondent athena joins