and of course with republican lawmakers people are holding them accountable at the failure to fix the health care system. today we re monitoring two republican lawmakers, carter in georgia as well as will herd in the state of texas. buddy carter is holding nine town halls today. the first one just wrapped up and i want to play sound for you, two questions that came up, not reaching across the aisle and exchange you might remember, let s play the sound from the town hall. will you support stabilizing the marketplace and bipartisan legislation that will appropriate those funds if the president continues to just say obamacare is imploding and then failed to support it. i m not one who likes to throw good money after bad. i think it needs to be repealed and replaced and start over from scratch. that s my personal feeling. we re going to have a transition period. we re not going to pull the rug out from underneath anyone.
americans are hurting. as you ve said, some have very high premiums, some don t have access to health care. we both know the president s threatened to stop forcing the individual mandate. this could destabilize insurance markets even further. that could hurt even more americans. are you in favor of those measures? well, you know, we have said all along that we were going to make sure that we did not pull the rug out from underneath anyone, that we were going to have a glad path, that we were going to have a transition period. that s been part of what we have said as republicans that we were going to do with health care, so, you know, the administration made the july payments for the cost sharing reduction. they ve done their part. i don t know whether the president, if he says it, i suspect he s serious about it, but i can certainly feel his pain in throwing good money after bad, because essentially that s what we re doing with obamacare. look, we need to start over.
start afresh, and, yes, in a bipartisan fashion to get health care back to where it needs to be. sorry, so are you or are you not in favor of stopping enforcing the individual mandate? well, we in congress never approved it. the individual mandates, you know, listen, i m opposed to the individual mandates. i don t think that we should be mandating from washington, d.c. but before a solution, should it before there is a solution, should they stop enforcing it? no. no, we should not. and i ll tell you why. we ve said all along we were going to have a glad path. we were not going to pull the rug out from underneath anyone. we shouldn t do that until we have a replacement in place. unless we can t get that replacement, let s go ahead and repeal it, have a few years to get it into position, to get it to where we will have it in place for when the repeal takes place. all right, interesting to see what the president ultimately has to say about that. buddy carter, thanks for the
congressman carter voted for the house version back in may. congressman, good to see you. what on earth happened here? you control the house and you control the senate and this is the fifth or sixth generation of a bill that you guys have been promising since 2010 to repeal and replace. how come this can t get done? well, obviously, right now we re struggling with the replacement bill. so, what we need to do now is just repeal obamacare. this failed experiment, if you will, that is imploding every day. we need to repeal it and then we need to work with our colleagues and work in a bipartisan fashion to come up with a replacement. this is going to take a while. and the leader of the senate has said, it s going to be a two-year plan. we always said we re going to have a stable transition period. we re not going to pull the rug underneath, out from underneath anyone. we re going to make sure there is a period of time, two years, that we wind the program down that s failed obamacare. we
not in my mind. tucker: the legislation attracts it, that s what i mean. not that i m aware of. it doesn t leave up to the states to be monitored by the states. tucker: obamacare taxes are still in here and not all of them will be repealed, the bulk won t be repealed until 2018, why is that? one of the things that we promised is a stable transition. mack. in order to have that, we ve got to make sure, everyone s make sure, they expressed to me how concerned they were about to do. i understand that health care is personal, we promised were not going to yank the rug out from underneath anyone. in order to do that, we ve got to have a glide path if you will, a stable transition. max. this didn t happen overnight at psycho to change overnight. tucker: what does this cost? and how many people will lose their coverage as a result? two things, we haven t gotten the cost estimates back yet from the cbo. tucker: of course it hasn t