on the first piece, i think, look, one of the things that s important to understand about this process that s very different from the democrats, you recall then speaker pelosi said you re going to have to read the bill to know what s in it. that was the big difference. here is the bill. it s on the website. if you go to the house of representatives website, speaker paul ryan s website, it s listed. everybody can read it. it s going to go through what they call regular order. we re not jamming this down anybody s throat. it s going to go tough a committee process. all parties involved, all representatives will have input into it. that s the way to conduct this process. to do it to allow people to watch the process happen and the committee, allow members of conk to have their input in it, to make amendments, to see that we get the best bill that achieves the goal for the american people. when we ve done it the last time, it was jammed down people s throats. look what happened.
important to understand, this bill has to be done in the phases it has to to address the repeal part of it and the replace part of it. there are only things we can do through reconciliation. and then through action, the secretary is empowered to do under obama care. and then third is an additional piece of legislation that addresses things. there are cost saving measures that in competition aspects of this that have to be included in phase two or three because they are not allowed in the reconciliation bill. because of the nature of how reconciliation works on capitol hill. i think that one of the things we have to understand is that how that score comes out from the congressional bug office will depend on whether they look at it specific with just a phase one or whether they look at it in totality. i m confident that if you look at what s going on right now, cheryl, it s unsustainable.
sara? conservatives started to call this obama care light. president trump promised to fully repeal obama care. if this is the policy that passes, is president trump confident that he can say he fully repealed obama care? yes, absolutely. the first half of the bill that we put forward repealed it. there are three things. each phase that we ve talked about, phase one, phase two, phase three, there s a repeal and replace aspect to each one. but republicans and conservatives have been talking about adding competition and driving cost down for decades now. selling across state lines. small business pooling. all of those things have been part of conservative plans for quite a long time. instilling that competition in it, allowing more access. there s a big difference. we have, for the longest time, if you re a conservative, you think about this right now.
what we ve seen over the last few years with obama care, you could have an insurance card but that doesn t mean someone s gonna take it. it sure doesn t mean that it will be affordable. there s a big difference between having a card and having health care that s affordable. that s the difference that we re trying to solve. when it comes to communication, one of the things that s helpful is that part of the sale is done for us. the american people understand the state of their health care. they understand how much they re paying. they ve gone to see a doctor or gone to a hop or had a notice from their carrier saying we are no longer part of this. or their employer says whatever your particular carrier is, it s no longer available. we re switching you to this. so, for so many americans, health care is a very very real part of their daily experience because they re caring for themselves, dealing with an ailment or dealing with children or a loved one where they re seeing first hand the de
obama care has caused them in their personal life. so i think there s a welcoming of this effort. it s a lot easier. we don t have to explain the problem. people are living it. what we re giving you is more choice, greater competition, we re incentivizing more people to be part of the process. we will be driving down the cost of premiums. you had a second. question on communications had to do with the president s assertion about the wire tapping. because the white house wants this to be handled by the legislative branch and in confidence and classification, can we count on the president to, himself, while this investigation is going on, to cease and desist using twitter or any other public venue to make accusations that are in public but he will not respond to in public. with respect to this particular situation, i ll ask that and get back to you on that. thank you, sean. just getting back to the