what do they say? the problem is the republicans and you can correct me if you want. they think the free market solves this problem. they had plenty of time when george bush was president and they were running congress to come up with a health care flan and they didn t because they don t think it s the job of the government. now they re stuck in a situation where fox business morning moved the conversation to a point where americans now view this as not an entitlement, but a right. so, republicans are trying to have it both ways, but they don t really believe in it. so, actually nothing is going to fix obamacare other than moving it more towards a single payer system or adding the public option or these kinds of things republicans don t want to do. a hear from republicans and democrats, no matter what you do, you re right. the former president obama did get us to where we are now when it comes to health care and no matter what version it is, it s still going to be obamacare. it s sti
premiums went up by 29% last year. and we have a real cost issue. and then we have what s that? you can fix that without politicizing it. you can address the cost of it without making it a political issue or political football. yeah, but come to one of my town hall meetings and try and pull that off if you can do so. you ought to run for office. i might take you up on that, but go on. fair enough, fair enough. what i d say is it is what it is. and, so, on the democratic side it got politicized and, you know, ms. pelosi said after you ve voted you can read the bill and all the different things we heard over the years. republicans politicizing, democrats have politicized against the latest change. it s a hot button issue i think because it is so vital to so many different people. people have different perspectives as a starting point. and, so, i might start from a free market perspective. ate lot of my friends back home
obama took a long time to pass the affordable care act, many republicans articulated they rushed it through and now we re doing essentially what we argued obama did several years ago. president trump argued to many of his supporters, i will repeal and replace obamacare. what we see today is definitely not a repeal and replace of obamacare. he said i would repeal and replace in 100 days, don, the cart is way before the horse. there is this reconciliation provision. they think they can do it on that. they want to do it by majority. they can do reconciliation later. they ve wrapped themselves around the axle. they need in my opinion to step back and say calm down let s take a month or two here. let s take some time. it will happen. it s going to fail. and then they re not going to let they can t what are they going to do? they can t have it fail in april and say that s it, we re not doing anything the next 16 or 18 but the president came in and he said to paul ryan, he s
but she s tough, too. you know what, they can handle it. but having the broader point, there is much too much forgiveness, i agree with that. there is a certain you can understand republicans want to wish him well and want him to succeed, but they need to be honest with themz selves about the character of this man who is president, you know? but do you not he is their vessel to get you can insult me, not my wife. that s what i believe, that if donald trump is not idea logical, they can shove some ideology in donald trump and get what they want to be fair, if you re a member of congress or a senator, what are you supposed to do? the guy is going to be president four years. elijah cares about drug prices. the president of the united states asked him to come to the white house to be with him. he said sure. don, do you oppose hold on. you guys are talking about a whole nother listen, there s a whole lot of business. there are things there are things you have to