The speaker warned him off of that. Made very clear that the individuals that would be voting for this bill were many of the individuals that helped republicans secure and maintain the majority, told them it Wasnt The Best idea. That said, there was still a House Freedom caucus meeting that was scheduled with tom price and nick mulvaney. They allowed that to happen after it was clear after the meeting there would be no movement with the conservatives, the House Freedom caucus members. The call was made. President trump called the speaker and told him clearly it was time to pull the bill and that is exactly what happened and the ramifications of that arent just micro, not just this week or this bill. They are health care, period. Obamacare stands not just for now, not just for the next couple months butter for the foreseeable future. A lot of republicans talked about if this goes down maybe kind of go piecemeal, piece by piece, try to do this in smaller chunks than all at once but is th
focusesing on his plan for medicare for all. what we ve seen the past week for the first of the nation caucus goers is a fundamental debate about medicare for all verses the balm care plan. and biden saying it was such an effort to get it in the first place, now is not the time to transition to a medicare for all system and might not be achievable in the first place. senator sanders really responding, forcefully pushing back on that. let s take a listen to the conversation. people talk about what s realistic. in 1965 we re not anywhere nearer the technology we have today. the united states government was able to establish a medicare program guaranteeing health care to old people. so i cannot understand when
affordable care act, not destroy it. in my view after that, we have to go forward. i believe we should move toward medicare care for all single pair program guaranteeing health care to all people. the president has said if the republicans can t pass this, let obamacare fail on its own and the democrats will come to the table. well, that is what he says. i want you to think about that for a second. here is the president of the united states saying i, the president, and this is what he s doing now, we re going to sabotage the law and make sure components of the law are not being implemented. we want to see it fail and want millions of people to lose their health insurance so we can win some political points. how pathetic is that for a president of the united states to say. by the way, mr. president, if you think it is the democrats who are going to be held responsible for the failure of the affordable care act, you got another guess coming. the american people know what s going on. y
the question is why are we not moving forward with a medicare for all single-payer program guaranteeing health care to all people which will be much more cost effective than we presently have? what do you think happens now? cheerily that is what you would like to see happen but the president is just talking about letting obamacare fail, cb objection says it s not imploding or on a death spiral like republicans are saying it is. what do you see happening? many democrats say things need to be amended or changed in obamacare. right. look, again, i believe in a medicare for all single payer program but it ain t going to happen right now. we don t have the support in the congress for that. so while we continue that long-term struggle right now we need to improve the affordable care act, and that means a public option available in every state in this country which gives people a wide variety of options but makes sure that there is competition in every community in this country.
ryan. what the american people are asking is how does it happen. that we are the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to all people as right. and i m talking to you tonight 50 miles away from the canadian border. we can get there in an hour. they manage to provide health care for ever man, woman and child in their country and at half the cost of person than we do. the cost of drugs significantly lower than in the united states. so the question is why are we not moving forward with a medicare for all, single payor program guaranteeing health care for all people which would be more cost gekt i have effectivee currently have. the bill likely would have suffered a lopsided defeat. many moderate republicans stood strong in opposition to it in defiance ever tof the white hou. take a listen to congressman mike turner speaking to kate