repealing the law and then replacing it with a better system will be the new administration s first order of business, mike pence has said. what does all of this mean for obamacare f future and for you? live in our west coast newsroom, trace gallagher. erased today as both parties tugged on the rope in an effort to save this signature law, obama went to capitol hill to fire up his team. president knows full well that the party does not have the votes to block republicans. so instead, he is advising democratic lawmakers not to rescueke it. by helping to pass replacement measures. mr. obama is p also recommending that any changes to the law should now be labeled trump care and at some democratic lawmakers have adopted a spin on trump s make america great again by pushing the phrase, makers america sick again. republicans will soon learn that you can t keep the goodod parts of the aca and remove the
rest of the law and still have it work. the republicans say they are doing just that. g.o.p. lawmakers also huddled ot capitol hill to lay out plans to repeal and replace the affordable care act. with the vice president elect mike pence vowing that donald trump is a man of his word. today our message is very simple. working with leadership here in the house and senate, we are going to be in the promise keeping business. and president-elect weighed in on twitter, saying they will not let democrats off the hook with obamacare. top republicans like house leader paul ryan s warnings fellow republicans to say before you repeal, make sure you can
obamacare but at 20% lower premium. with much more choice, much more access. it can be done, the idea that obamacare is the only way to make sure people have access to health insurance coverage is not true. if you give people a choice, if you give americans control again of their own health care dollars, y though be able to choose the plans that are right for them at much lower cost than obamacare does. megyn: all right,uc i think it s interesting that donald trump sat down and did an interview with dr. ezekiel. talking about keeping the good stuff about getting rid of the mandate. great to see you both. thank you. megyn: judge andrew napolitano discusses the supreme court seat, wait to hear about the reversal that the democrats have done on this. then karl rove.
if they get rid of obamacare and fundamentally alter it, anybody complaining about the health care system will be transformed into thinking, what were youan thinking when you destroyedd obamacare? megyn: trump ran on a promise that he would make changes. there is a real question about whether senator schumer is right, you can t take away you can t still have the good stuff, the universal coverage, t whatever. the coverage of pre-existing conditions without the bad stuff. the mandates. and this is where democrats are totally wrong, in my view. if you go toto our web site, we have published a plan called transcending obamacare that does everything the democrats claim to support. it covers more people, 12 million more people than
going to show you. the thing that obamacare bid and had in 2009 and 2010, when democrats controlled the senate, they had 60 votes to pass the parts of obamacare. republicans this year only have 52 votes, yes they can defund obamacare, but the thing that you and i have talked about so many times on the show, megyn, is howw the regulation in obamacare are driving up the premiums. if you don t reform the regulation, you can t really repeal and replace obamacare in full. so how are republicans going to get the 60 votes that they need to impose or institute their own reform for their health care system? the way to do is give the democrats something they want. in a consumer driven way so people have the actual choice. a megyn: you heard it there, athey need democrat buy-in if they want to do it right and if they don t do it right, we are back to trump s warning.