and i m going to push them to keep the key components of health care that i like. whether it s having health care coverage until you re 26 years old or we re going to have high risk pools for people with pre-existing conditions. we re going to make sure that the poor people in our community have access to care. let s work on that stuff but let s make sure that markets work and make sure that you, the american families in control of your health care as opposed to the bureaucrats in washington. they should partner with us on this because the affordable care act isn t working and what you re seeing before we start this debate is outrageous. there s no question that america wants both sides to work together to make life better for everyone. we just have to stay straight on the facts. you have 1.7 million people effected by rate hikes. .5% of the population. congressman you re welcome back anymore. be well and happy new year. you too, chris. as you have been discussing president obama
basically throwing people off their health insurance. this is a matter of life and death for many americans. what i find fascinating is here during the campaign, donald trump said he had a plan to replace obama care and that it was going to be great and it was going to be better health care at lower prices. he gave us all the details in two words. he said believe me. now all of a sudden he wants democrats and republicans to come up with a plan revealing that he never had a plan for that. politicians abuse the truth sometimes. the promise during the salesmanship of the aca was you get to keep your doctor, that rates were going to go down for everybody, health care would become cheaperment for at least 1.7 million people in this country, it s not true. i know the extent of the rate rise has been exaggerated, but it s still real on a level. people need things to be fixed within the aca. many of you democrats acknowledge that as well. so are you going too far by not working with the go
how did you interpret that message? that s not quite what he said but it s close allison. he said, look, can this law be improved? can the health care system be improved? sure it can and we ought to be working together to do that but if they force through a partisan repeal vote and rush into a repeal that strips health insurance away from 30 million americans and then say oh now that we have repealed please help us fix the mess that we made he said don t bail them out of their own problem. the time to work to make improvements is right now before a repeal vote and 13 of us have written to the republican leadership saying let s sit down at the table now and talk about reforms and improvements. if you want to call it a replacement call it whatever you want but as soon as you repeal it you start a process where you re creating both health care and economic malpractice and you re demonstrating that you don t want to negotiate in good
that is the president-elect says that he wants to make sure people with pre-existing conditions can still get health care. well, that runs into all of the other republican priorities which means republicans can t eliminate the mandate because otherwise you buy a policy when you get sick and not before, and that doesn t work. it means that you can t eliminate, also, all of the subsidies or you ll throw millions of people off their health insurance. what the republicans say they want is mutually incompatible, and they will not be able to overcome that very basic conflict with, if they re going to cover people with pre-existing conditions, there s going to have to be a broad mandate. i don t see that as something that can be the subject of some kind of compromise without lots of people losing their health insurance. but if they want to work on improving this, i m all for it. we will work with them. if they want to work on throwing it all out and say come bail us out, come rescue us from o
democrats ought to start calling it trump care. they want to repeal it and try to hang it on us. not going to happen. it s their responsibility. plain and simple. cutting health care wouldn t make america great again. it would make america sick again and lead to chaos. reporter: at virtually the same time republicans girding for the epic fight led by vice president-elect mike pence, a meeting described by attendees as more pep rally than policy discussion. the promises of obamacare have all been proven to be false. if you like your doctor, you can keep it. not true. if you like your health insurance, you can keep it. not true. this law has failed. americans are struggling. reporter: the president-elect also jumping into the debate in a series of tweets seeming to warn republicans not to work too closely with democrats. dems owned the obamacare