amid the repeated promises to repeal and replace the affordable care act also known as i obamacare. the white house is yet to lay out a replacement. susan collins of maine and bill cassidy of louisiana are deciding to introduce the first senate replacement bill, one that could be considered some might call it obamacare light. depends on your point of view. basically it allows states that like obamacare to keep it as the law of the land, or at least their land. if they don t, there are some alternatives. sean spooiser was asked today and he gave a friendly dodge saying they look forward to working with congress on this. but folks, at some point republicans will need to compromise in order to pass a replacement health care bill that can get a dozen democrats. and this one brought by a moderate republican and a conservative republican looks like, on paper, as the best possible vehicle. but again, they ll probably need a trump white house behind them to succeed. i sat down with senators ca
insurers fleeing the market. and we re going to have to do something regardless. but we recognize that there s some states where obamacare may be the right answer for the citizens. so why not allow those states to keep it, if they like it, and then we proposed an alternative which we believe is a better choice for most states. one of the things that it seems almost that this is going to make permanent is medicaid expansion. is that i know there s a third option that if you don t want to expand medicaid, you don t have to in your state. but it seems as if the incentive is, you can expand medicaid under the old rules of acoa obamacare. under this new your bill, or you don t have it at all. but it sound like the motivation is expand medicare. i think it s better to say that it would make permanent the society helping those who are middle income and a little bit
different states coming up with different approaches. and it may well be that there s a new approach out there that helps to bend the cost curve more on health care costs because one of the problems of the affordable care act is there s nothing affordable about it. how are you going to now walk me through the coalition that you re going get to 60 on this. why is it the way forward? first of all, we are the first senators to put a concrete plan out there. and we expected it to be shot at by both sides, but it s so important if we re going to get to a solution that we advance specific proposals. then they can be refined, amended, and ultimately enacted. we re talking to members on both sides of the aisle. and it s attractive to people who realize that premiums have gone through the roof in their states. it s also a attractive to people
preserve some parts of the aca or obamacare, where are you on this? should democrats just fight tooth and nail to get their way 100% or think about compromise? look, we ve got a fight. we ve also got to be fighting for our values. for far too long, democratic strategy and policy has been organized completely around republican strategy and policy. and all we do is take the yardstick what have they re doing and then fight over how ferociously to oppose it or how many parts of it to take up. that is not a strategy that is derived from our own values and our own principles. and if we re talking about our values before we even bother talking about the republicans, then we can do things like talk about what s right for the country. and dare donald trump to either do it or fail to do it. all right. mr. mayor, let me try your last name again, did i get it okay? how am i doing? close enough. well it took us a while, ask reince priebus, it took everybody it took a while for him as well
of this. right. that s right. we ll pause here. steve, molly, robert, stick around, republicans said for years they want to repeal and replace obamacare. but what is the replace? well now there is a republican plan. and i ll talk to the two senators who are co-sponsoring the bill. is this the vehicle to replace obamacare? stay tuned. did you know, 90% of the world s largest supercomputers run on intel? that means you can take a universe of data - in your case literally - and turn it into medical discoveries, diagnostic breakthroughs. .proof that black holes collapse into one singularity. i don t know what that is. but yes. innovation runs on supercomputers. .and supercomputers run on intel. you are super smart. and super busy. ooh! ufo! false alarm, eyelash!