anything, that was a miscalculation. the president said yesterday if you guys can ever figure out how to repeal obamacare, he wants the replacement to look like what you been working on, give block grants to the state is. that realistic? totally. the more obamacare collapses, the more we need to do something. the one thing everybody agrees on virtually is obamacare can t be fixed. bernie sanders says fix it for a little while and then we ll replate it with medicare for all. the democrats are not saying obamacare is the answer. they say single payer healthcare is the answer. republicans are saying let s replace it with the graham cassidy block grant approach. that s where the president is at. the president says what are we doing the next two years? we can t implement the block grant until 2020. what do you do between now and 2020? it s the two years we re worried about. can you do something to ease the
paralyzed by a quest for perfection rather than doing that which is better than they have. this is a great example of that if the problem is lack of money for specific states, that could be fixed. but obamacare can t be fixed. what we have is an airplane that is spiraling toward the ground about to explode and we have people that are complaining about the snacks that are being served. this is why we need to get a handle on the yoke and pull this thing back and keep it in the air and best thing to do it is pass this bill. it empowers states. it gives them flexibility. during the time when i was governor we had 49 out of 50 governors sign on to a proposal to congress that said give us less money. think about that. give us less money, give us more flexibility. we can make medicaid work. i m telling you, the problem is not that states can t do something. the problem is, the federal government won t let them. graham-cassidy gives them the permission, gives them the opportunity to fix a lot
get to first base. sean: my next question, lindsey graham is proposing this idea. on the surface, people like yourself and i would say, what a great idea. federalism. send it back to the states, let them decide it. vermont want to have a single-payer, vermont has a single-payer. california, who cares what they do, i will never live there. ever. i am not paying their state income tax.-p but here s the point, the problem is, they are not going to repeal all of the obama era regulations, and why do i suspect, herman, i don t know why i am so suspicious, that they are going to overspend like they always do, and we are still going to end up paying more.go yep. the reason, sean, is that when the democrats say they want to work with republicans, they now say they want to work with republicans to fix obamacare,, obamacare can t be fixed. when the democrats talk about,ba they want to work with
get to first base. sean: my next question, lindsey graham is proposing this idea. on the surface, people like yourself and i would say, what a great idea. federalism. send it back to the states, let them decide it. vermont want to have a single-payer, vermont has a single-payer. california, who cares what they do, i will never live there. ever. i am not paying their state income tax. but here s the point, the problem is, they are not going to repeal all of the obama era regulations, and why do i suspect, herman, i don t know why i am so suspicious, that they are going to overspend like they always do, and we are still going to end up paying more western mark yep. the reason, sean, is that when the democrats say they want to work with republicans, they now say they want to work with republicans to fix obamacare, obamacare can t be fixed. when the democrats talk about,
trump wants to do something about it, but you know what? ultimately, this is obamacare and president trump s signature law. he is to blame and the democrats who be on jukted change are to blame, too. so as we know about how republicans are having a struggle to try to fix obamacare, and with tom price saying today if we can only replace it, then we talk about the different numbers here. what brian was just referring to, the money that s going to different insurance subsidies and we have lindsay graham in a tweet saying that i agree with president donald trump. obamacare can t be repaired and it s fatally flawed. it must be replaced, but is there really evidence that suggests it has to be replaced as opposed to updated or amended? thomas, it depends on how you define these things. technically, you can repeal the affordable care act and replaces it with one word. there are word games that have been played in the politics over