people real hope, not false hope. what we are doing is lowering the cost and we do that by going to the building. the people in the house we were able to overcome those, senator cruz is one that will be able a part of making it happen. we look forward to seeing it. bill: i curious to sissy with a more conservative members say is we go forward on that. have you been in contact with the president on this? we just came out of a meeting with the white house staff. they are letting the senate do their work, they are supportive of a plan to get to it. it s a major premise of the president. he s been very active and i think he s going to continue to make that push forward because he understands the devastating effect that obama obamacare is. you probably heard that interview is sean spicer. he did not even say this was 50/50. it will get done. do you get the same sense of confidence across the board among the republican congress? at the end of the day, i believe it will get them. there
something better. we are trying to deal with an almost infinite need for finite resources and if we don t bring innovation and market forces to bear, we can t solve the equation. shannon: they are very specific things he wanted in the house bill that got you on board. some of those things may not show up what we get from the senate. you mention the conference committee. is it possible your vote is lost along the way? as you mentioned, obamacare, republicans say, it is basically going to be in shambles. is it something you really don t want and sticking with obamacare? there are so many of those binary choices that you mentioned, and ultimately, i want to do the right thing for the american people and for this country in general. everything in my observation in the last 50 years is that simply throwing a socialist government approach and it nearly always makes it worse. we tried that with the telephone system and it was a disaster and
democrat from massachusetts is using even sharper language and says the republican health bill is blood money and that is paying for tax cuts with american lives. bill: thank you, peter. shannon: let s stick with this topic and bring in byron york, . do you think there s any small part of the democrats, even as they are railing on this bill right now as it stands, that want to see the g.o.p. passed something and own this because if not, what we are left with is the prediction that obamacare simply will fall apart on its own? there is no doubt that obamacare is, that s kind of happening. hillary clinton when she ran for president had a plan for fixing obamacare. yes, i think excuse me republicans are happy that republicans are blaming everything going on with obamacare right now. they are blaming it on
senators you mentioned. many people viewing their opposition as an opening bid on the road to yes, at least in the case of the few of them. so we ll see where it goes. got it. sounds like rch is passing around copies of art of the beal he o deal. but i want to you ask you what you think mcconnell s motive is do you think he wishes to have a bill pass do you think he wishes to bring a bill up for a vote to say i tried and have it fail. there is a lot of speculation about that. i don t know. honestly. as you know he and his party campaigned for seven long years on repeal and replace obamacare. and on one level i think he would certainly like to get this done. it s what they promised to voters. it s what the base wants. but in bill is very unpopular. the senate bill is not much different from the house bill really the president asked for if to be more generous, not as mean. it is not significantly different from the house bill
when we deregulated it and put it back to private sector you have homeless people carry cell phones now. it s innovation that is our hope, and my hope is that somehow this legislation will allow states to the private sector to have what they need to create innovation and be competitive and have opportunities that will drive down the cost. and retain the dignity of the patient. that s the goal. shannon: is you believe that s what you see in the senate framework we we had no? if it came to you in this form, could you vote for it? shannon, i will have to say to you that i don t know what form it will come to us in, but i am not sure that i can vote for, but i want to be able to. i want to do the best possible but you understand we are and where we started. the bird group does not allow for repeal of the obamacare. it is not for tobacco offer a full replacement. we are having to do something constrained by artificial, weird rules and it s a stupid debate