the 50 or so votes the republicans have taken to repeal the law could have been 50 votes to create jobs by investing in things like infrastructure or innovation or 50 votes to make it easier for middle class families to send their kids to college. or 50 votes to raise the minimum wage. or restore unemployment insurance that they let expire for folks working hard to find a new job. the opinion is the repeal debate is and should be over. the affordable care act is working, and i know the american people don t want us spending the next two and a half years refighting settled political battles of the last five years. they sent us here to repair our economy to rebuild our middle class and restore our founding promise of opportunity, not just for a few but for all and as president, that s exactly what i intend to keep doing. as long as i m in this office. with that i ll take some questions. let s see who we got. kathleen from the los angeles times.
could have been 50 votes to create jobs by investing in things like infrastructure. or innovation. or 50 votes to make it years for middle class families to send their kids to college. on or 50 votes to raise the minimum wage. or restore unemployment insurance, that they let ex-pair for folks working hard to find a new job. the point is the repeal debate is and should be over. the affordable care act is working and the american people don t want to spend the next 2 1/2 years refighting the settled political battles of the last five years. they sent us here to repair the economy, build the middle class and restore opportunity and not just for a few but for all. as president that s exactly what i intend to keep doing as long as i m in this office. with that i will take some questions. let s see who we have. kathleen hennessy of the l.a.
have taken to repeal this law could have been 50 votes to create jobs by investing in things like infrastructure, or innovation, or 50 votes to make it easier for middle class families to send their kids to college. or 50 votes to raise the minimum wage, or restore unemployment insurance, that they let expire for folks working hard to find a new job. the point is, the repeal debate is and should be over. the affordable care act is working. i know the american people don t want us spending the next two and a half years refighting the settled political battles of the last five years. they sent us here to repair our economy, and restore our founding prop is of opportunity, not just for a few, but for all. and as president, that s exactly what i intend to keep doing as long as i m in this office. with that, i ll take some questions. let s see who we ve got. kathleen hennessey of the l.a.
you like it or not, it s strengthened the companies. this is a control takeover of health care, in many cases subsidized by the government. and i wish that this repeal debate although i don t support repeal i wish the debate was how to make the bill better as opposed to simply saying let s repeal this thing and that will solve our problems. we still have an underlying health care crisis in our country with this bill and certain will i without this bill. do you agree with that, mark? that s not what they re saying. they re saying we have to repeal this and replace it with something like, for example, empower everybody who needs to get insurance to buy it through some kind of a voucher for example as one approach and that would break exactly this corporate government partnership if you will that controls the health care it would subsidize the health
puerto rico drowning in catastrophic harvey-like flooding from hurricane maria. we ll show you some of the first images from this battle island battered island. let s get right to the latest on the senate s healthcare hail mary. phil mattingly has that for us. as the senate plows toward a vote to repeal obamacare, president trump is unequivocal tweeting, i would not sign graham/cassidy. it did not include coverage of pre-existing conditions. it does. more people would have coverage and we protect those with pre-existing conditions. reporter: trump s defensiveness over the issue is understandable. the issue of whether the gop proposal maintains protections for all has been a central and toxic piece of the repeal debate for months. and one that has been magnified exponentially by, of all people, a late-night talk show host on a two-night attack.