complete hoone of the most fascinating splits what is happening with republicans on the hill and what is happening with republicans in new york and trump tower. the president-elect is up this morning with new comments about this debate on twitter. he writes the democrats, led by head clown chuck schumer, know how bad obamacare is and what a mess they are in. instead of working to fix it, they do the typically political thing and blame. the fact is obamacare was a lie from the beginning. keep your doctor, keep your plan. it is time for republicans and democrats to get together and come up with a health care plan that really works. much less expensive and far better! obviously, joe, a strategy. he used the clown term around schumer yesterday in another tweet. drawing a line between himself and democrats in the senate. i m just going to say, willie, if you re going to fix
speaker s office was pushing them to go ahead and get on board with just the repeal and take care of replacement down the road. but yesterday afternoon, i heard that s not their approach at all. they still believe they need to build up the bill in its entirenot create what they call some sort of frankenstein monster that is trotted out for political purposes, but build an all-encompassing replacement for obamacare and put that out as the repeal vote is. you even heard that, though, from the vice president-elect but what are the rank and file saying, bob? i suspected it s something completely different. not just about building some frankenstein piece of legislation but building consensus. they got to find votes for something. that is has been the big question for rank and file republicans. what do they actually want to support in terms of a replacement? an idea is floating around that
on a plan to replace it two years from now and saying nothing is changing with any family over the united states? well, it goes back two things like the medical device tax, the health insurance tax on insurance company. the mandate will be repealed immediately. those are going away but that does not impact the individual that you indicated has got someone with a chronic disease that needs treatment. the repeal is going to be dealing with some of these owners, parts of obamacare that have been job killers, that have impacted employers and penalized workers, you know, on the 30-hour versus 40-hour workweek. those very, very negative aspects of obamacare will be going away but not impact the patients seeing their doctor and the coverage that they have. that is the difference. congressman chris collins from up in buffalo this morning, congressman, thanks so much for your time. we turn to the other side of the
far be it for me to give advise in washington, democrat or republicans, but if were in the republican administration the new one or working with democrats in the senate i d reach out to governors across the country and align them with whatever plan i was willing to advance or hope to advance because they are the ones on the front lines with medicaid expansion. they are the ones who the citizens in their own state benefiting from aspects of obamacare and affordable care act and said on this show and network many times probably millions of americans who did not vote for hillary clinton who are actually benefiting from obamacare, actually on obamacare. so i would want some cover from governors as well as you think about some broad comprehensive and perhaps bipartisan reform on the health care act. bernie sanders tried to use the president-elect s own words against him and trotting out a giant poster featuring a trump tweet. as part of his argument on entitlements. may 7th, 2015, donal
aisle. with us from chill is senior member of the ways and means committee democratic congressman richard neil of massachusetts. thank you for being with us this morning. good morning. you re a supporter of the affordable care act. i don t know if you heard what congressman collins said there but what do you make of the general argument to get rid of obamacare as soon as possible whether they have something to replace it with? sound to me the rhetoric has not caught up with the plan. i have had congressman collins say there are six different plans. i must pell you those of us on the democratic side have not heard one of them and have not seen one of them. i think they have had a bit of an open mike when it comes to talking about repeal. they have not concentrated on the idea of replace. so i think that the opportunity that they have presented to the american people right now is pretty empty. congressman, we just asked,