mcintosh and listening to all of the opponents of many particuthr bill introduced overnight in the house of representatives and listening ad nauseam what is going on in washington and both committees, there is one element that very few people have spoken about. obamacare is imploding. we have been told that over and over again. there are 20 million plus people with health insurance as a result of obamacare. what are you going to do with them? you going to tell them, sorry, you re not going to have your health care for a week, a month, six months while we figure out what the replacement is going to be? what are you going to do? well, i think what the obvious answer is many of those people were given access to insurance but not to health care. their deductibles and premiums under obamacare were too high. but your broader point is a very good one. whatever they do it has to recognize that people need and are counting on health care and particularly low income people
weeks with the hospital association and what do you need to support this? then the liberals didn t like it and went to a public option and had to work on stuff to get this on board. why are they unleashing this at the beginning of march? he misses obama. they got it through and it took a huge amount of work and obama spent six months around the country campaigning for it. they think they can slap this down with not that huge of a margin in the house and a small margin in the senate and say, paul ryan and donald trump agree on this. it s ridiculous! but bill is absolutely right. for seven years, you know, the republican mantra obamacare was done in the middle of the night and back room deals and rushed, not vetted properly. we had to see what was see what was in the bill. every one of those rah torial device you can apply ten-fold what the process is right now. it s astonishing. hypocrisy goes hand in hand but this is a level of hypocrisy i
aarp. here they are and, again, as somebody said, we are going to midterm election. the voters are older and they are wider and they are more dependent on health care than just about any other voters group. if you wanted to create a perfect way to gut a republican advantage for the 2018 midterms, it would be this bill, which, again, is why it s so astounding to me that presidential leadership didn t get in the waive this and say, guys, i know you want to do obamacare. okay? we will start that bill but we have to pass tax reforms first and then we have to do reg reforms and we will get some momentum and then we will pass it. they are starting with something that is going to keep them tied up fighting and have aarp running commercials against all of them over the next two years. in an odd track, joe, i mean,
them to do. but i can use my own experience. i got elected in 1994 about balance budgets and bringing down the deficit and bringing down the national debt, reforming entitlement spending, and doing all of these things that took money, power, and authority out of washington, d.c. i just could not negotiate on that and it took tom delay and the whip operation. you know? if it increased the deficit i wasn t going to vote for it. there was nothing they could say or do because my whole career rested on that. these people that have been elected since 2010 got elected running against obamacare. the last thing they can do, if you re jim jordan, or any of these tea party guys, is go over to the white house and have a slice of pizza and bowl three times and then tell the president, oh, yeah, i m going to abandon everything i campaigned for over the past six years.
the campaign and nobody was listening to them. they let a lot go by and i m not sure they will let this go by. senator advice krchris van holl you. let s bring in congressman larry dent. thanks for joining us, congressman. back in 2009, one of the mantras, many of them from republicans critical of democrats in the passage of obamacare they are doing it in the dead night and didn t know what was in the bill and didn t allow the american people to weigh in and look at it and understand its score. can you honestly say today that republicans aren t doing the exact same thing with the attempted passage of their own repeal and replace bill here? well, i guess history has a funny way of repeating itself. i think there has been too much of a focus here on arbitrary time lines and deadlines and base lines. this issue to me is about the