2014. health care. rick tyler is a republican strategist. jonathan allen is politico s white house bureau chief. rick, if i were to come to you as a perspective republican candidate, now that the affordable care act has been put into effect and people are getting insurance who heretofore couldn t get insurance, would your advice be to argue for repeal or reform? well, what i ve been saying to all my candidates is the affordable care act, it can t work. it s a lead airplane. though people claim there are good things in it, i don t think it can be reformed. i think it has to be repealed. but what s going to happen is the republicans got ahead of themselves. the country needs to want to repeal it first. and we re getting closer to that. the affordable care act, despite the cold open here is as unpopular as ever. president obama is as unpopular as ever because of the affordable care act.
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message, argument and tactics for the most important issue in 2014. health care. rick tyler is a republican strategist. jonathan allen is politico s white house bureau chief. rick, if i were to come to you as a progs prospective republican candidate, now that the affordable care act has been put into effect and people are getting insurance who heretofore couldn t get insurance, would your advice be to argue for repeal or reform? well, what i ve been saying to all my candidates is the affordable care act, it can t work. it s a lead airplane. though people claim there are good things in it, i don t think it can be reformed. i think it has to be repealed. but what s going to happen is the republicans got ahead of themselves. the country needs to want to repeal it first. and we re getting closer to that. the affordable care act, despite the cold open here is as unpopular as ever. president obama is as unpopular as ever because of the
concede that republicans are wanting to reform the affordable care act, what would reform look like? to the question i was asking of rick, there are a handful of proposals floating around that the new york times looks at in a great article by jonathan weissman. called gop debates next move. but here s the thing. if you add them all up, you get a health care law that looks strangely familiar. here are the examples. senator ron johnson, a tea party republican from wisconsin, wants to keep the insurance exchanges. congressman tom price s plan wants to keep the provision that prevents health insurers from denying patients that have pre-existing conditions. a version of paul ryan s plan has a mandate by another name called automatic enrollments. and extend tax credits to help people subsidize their insurance costs. together they basically form the foundation of the affordable care act. hence my question to rick as a republican strategist of are they arguing for repeal or arguing for refor