of liberals say my god, we ll is blood on the streets and the people will lose welfare benefits and starve in the streets. none of that happened. what happened is we moved 50% of the people off of welfare into jobs. so the point i m making is we ve tried this kind of approach before in federalism and it worked well. why not try it in healthcare? then why now then? republicans had so many years to come up with a fix and now they re coming up with a democratic fix to a healthcare plan that was pretty much a republican plan to begin with? this was romney care. now you want to fix it with a bill clinton plan? i want to use federalism and allow the states to experiment. i think a lot of the governors will tell you look, this will actually save money and potentially increase coverage because a lot of these governors say you given us the flexibility we can reduce costs and cover more people. a lot of governors are spaoeng out against it.
trump really has a serious commitment around health care in any significant sense. the senate is playing fast and loose with millions of people s health care. people who could lose their livelihoods. third, i don t understand the animated principal behind all of this anyway. this is a heritage bill. romney care. it came out of the heritage foundation. aca was based upon it. obama took a republican idea and made it his own. i don t understand what the animating principal is otherwise a health care legislation with obama s name on it. understand this is the american health care cyst. eddie is so right, you can t have as an your animated the following. well, they also have, jeremy, i guess the animating principle
should return to regular order. the place where korng can get things done, but can you have something that approximates regular order in such a irregular washington. the inspiration for obama care came from a republican governor, mitt romney and romney care that was heralded by grouped like the her teenage foundation. once it became a product of a democratic president who from the beginning like many republicans gave a hard time, it became a polar sizing prospect even though it has been a republican idea. they have to decide that like mccain says in the end they are getting nothing done. i covered congress for several
not ready with a plan when they won the white house and both houses of congress, that s where we ve been for the last six months. obamacare, was romney care, was the republican ail tefrptiltern what republicans have been proposing for years and years. now th republicans have not been able to get their hands around what they want to replace it with and why that s so bad versus whatever draft plan they proposed. that will carry on through 2018 and 2020 as jackie said, it matters how it affects constituents down the road. thank you very much. jackie, april, david, appreciate it. what did trump know? when did she know it? she being ivanka trump. a group of house democrats this morning questioning the first daughter s security clearance calling on the fbi to investigate whether she now about her husband and brothers meetings with those russian
it s a great thing. what we need is a president who is going to stand up for the american people. we have that. we need a president who s going to keep his promises, and we have that. so i like what president trump is doing so far. i like the fact that he s letting congress run its course on the health care bill. martha: time for one more comment. i am a nonprofit executive from boston and grew up with romney-care, if you will, in massachusetts. this was pushed through without public hearing. we are not debating. we are campaigning. it s sound bites. having a conversation, i would much rather see our leaders negotiating. martha: would you like to hear chuck schumer say let me get together with republican senators, let s sit down and