tennessee harold ford jr. and msnbc political correspondent kasie hunt. the news and finance anchor andrea. and msnbc political analyst mr. robert costas. the senate yesterday took the first step toward repealing obamacare voting 51-48 in favor of a budget resolution that allows repealing major parts of the law with a simple majority. going through the budget process means senate democrats cannot stop them through the filibuster. afterwards, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell spoke to the press. we are going to move forward with the obamacare repeal resolution first and we will take the second step a little bit later. vice president-elect mike pence met with members of congress yesterday about the republicans health care plan, alongside house speaker paul ryan and gop leadership. he said republicans would not just strip away the affordable care act. the first order on of business is to repeal and
making a new system of tax credits and keeping some aspects of the current law in in terms of people keeping parts of their insurance but no real agreement and why the speaker ryan knows he has to spend weeks, if not months, trying to get his own conference together. joe, there is really tough choices to make. do they repeal all of the taxes that were in the affordable care act which pay for the current system in part and which republicans may the to hold on to or part of their commitment to get rid of the medical device taxes and others. do they do anything to change the relationship that the employer provided health care which is a huge part of the system or do they scale back medicare and medicaid to do a deficit reduction. th this is a new washington and new congress but they haven t repealed the relate. congress doesn t until the last possible moment and to get consensus on some of those bigger issues beyond the 75% of things they want to do like
as you heard, congressman collins about office hours in buffalo. let moo he ask you about office hours in downtown springfield, massachusetts. it sounds to me from listening to congressman collins he is talking about revising obamacare more than repealing and ruining obamacare. what is your view on what needs to be done to obamacare? here is the problem. why wouldn t they treat obamacare the way we treated george bush s prescription d benefit plan? if you recall, we opposed president bush s plan, largely because of what was known as the doughnut hole. that ments you had to spend out x number of dollars before the benefit kicked in. we won the house. we won the senate. we won the presidency. and quickly we closed the dough net howl and moved on. prescription d, part d of medicare, is now an accept will entitlement and no effort made to repeal it. instead we improved it. i think here there was that opportunity but they have used
appeared to caution his party about this tweeting earlier republicans must be careful in that the dems own the failed obamacare disaster with its poor coverage and massive premium increases like the 116% hike in arizona and deductibles so hard it is practically useless. don t let the schumer clowns out of this web, trump wris. massive increases of obamacare will take place this year and dems are to blame for the mess. it will fall out of its own weight. be careful. vice president-elect mike pence met with members of congress yesterday about the republicans health care plan. alongside paul ryan and republican leadership, he said the party would not just strip away the affordable care act. the first order of business is to repeal and replace obamacare and that was our message today and it will be our message on capitol hill. the health care system has been ruined!
understand that particularly with regard to the national security team, secretary of defense, cia, homeland security, it would make a lot of sense to have those folks in place on day one. and i hope we get to the point where that will be possible. thank you. thank you. [inaudible] yeah, we are going to move forward with the obamacare resolution first and we ll take the second step a little later. how much later? i will call on my colleagues here as well. i think the vice-president elect did a good job of laying out the failed promises of obamacare. in a prior life i was attorney general of the state of texas