and fighting for those with pre-existing conditions. here s your fact check. every single one of the lawmakers you heard from voted to repeal obamacare and gut those. it appears they re trying to pretend it didn t happen because maybe obamacare has record support among voters or maybe we re getting close to what barack obama predicted. they can call it trump care. they can call it mcconnell care orion care. if it actually works, i will be the first one to say, great. you should have told me that back in 2009, i asked. here s the catch. what those republican lawmakers are saying to get elected may not be what they do. they may not be governing mcconnell care. he himself pulled back the curtain admitting if republicans get enough votes in these midterms they ll go back and try
eric: i happen to agree. i don t think this bill is good. i have said this feels like orion care. it s not something donald trump should be pushing, yet sean spicer is, that line was the goal is to pass it. it got them in trouble when they failed to do it a few weeks ago and it s going to get them in trouble again. i could not agree with you more. it s not just democrats that aren t on board. there are still a lot of republicans undecided that i think they re going to have to flip. the key is the pre-existing conditions. high risk pools does actually work that well. if the republican party heads into 2,018th either not passing anything, and i think that will be disastrous, or passing something that drives people s costs up, that makes premiums go up and people lose their care, politically it s going to be awful. for actual americans, i do think that will be bad. eric: mark steyn, let s