but i do feel that the aca is not working well. so it needs to be reformed or replaced. should it be repealed? only if it can be replaced. and that s a very hard thing to do. so i think the president acknowledged that it s hard. yes, i think there is some credible criticism of the republicans not having had a true game plan. after all, they have been critical of the aca for a very long time. they should have had a replacement strategy in place, not just a repeal strategy. but we know that. this is a work in progress. but i guarantee the affordable care act as it is currently written and being implemented leaves a lot of problems in america and we ve got to address those problems. so i want congress to be able to work together to come up with a way to fix our health care climate so that the people are better served by the opportunity to get responsibility health care without burdening the middle class and without
price right by putting a tax on carbon emissions, and then getting government out of the way. and our plan would accomplish two very important things for the american public. first, the bottom 70% of americans would come out ahead which means that they would get more in monthly dividends than they would pay in increased energy costs. the second thing is that our plan would achieve nearly twice the emissions reductions of all obama era climate regulations combined. so our plan fits in this moment as the replace strategy to come after the repeal strategy that president trump just announced. so far he s announced only basically what is a repeal only strategy. inevitably that will lead to strong backlash not only from the environmental community but also from the republican base and from business leadership. ted, who signed on to this plan of yours? so, we started with a terrific group of co-authors, including james baker, george
senate paramen tliamentarian wo rule that not germane. the ace in the hole, the vice president can overrule the senate parliamentarian. the senate parliamentarian is not the president of the senate. vice president mike pence is. so he could overrule that. if president trump says i m on board with a straight repeal strategy, let it pass the house and send it to the senate and let the parliamentarian be overruled by mike pence. it s pretty unlikely that they ll get 51 votes to do it. obamacare was passed with 51 votes. no, i m saying i don t think 51 republicans would vote for repeal without knowing what replaces it. pragmatically, republican leaders have gone out there and said how this process is going
this would be labeled emergency spending and would essentially add to the deficit. and ryan has said little about the price tag because he s waiting for the administration to submit its proposal to congress. perhaps that is why the speaker would rather avoid answering some of these questions. while i have you on the issue of obama care, 20 million people in this country covered by this. this is something the president just over the weekend said we are going to have it revamped draft of this in just a couple of weeks. i don t know if republicans are entirely on the same page. this is something that has come up in a lot of these town halls. these members are on recess this week. and a lot of concerns on obama care from the left and the right coming up. and the question is going to be coming can, can the republicans get their own party on the same page on the repeal strategy and the replacement strategy. they are not on the same page, particularly some of the conservatives wanting to
which tracks political advertising. the democrats behind a fixed repeal strategy are now gingerly experimenting mostly in prime areas and outside groups with ads that endorse the law and what could be lost if republicans repeal it. take a ook at this. i was born and raised in alaska. i m a mother, a runner, and a breast cancer survivor. i was lucky. i beat cancer. but the insurance companies still denied my health insurance just because of a pre-existing condition. i now have health insurance again because of mark begic. he fought the insurance companies so we no longer have to. so mark begich in alaska.