in the states that decided the election. and that s where we will be a year from now heading into the 2018 election. republicans in congress will be dealing with big premium increases in states that will be critical battlegrounds in the 2018 election. that was the bed they had chosen to make. we ve got to wrap up. but it is worth noting, though, that enrollment is still high. obamacare, i think something like 8.8 almost nine million. with even more limited time frame to enroll. thank you all, ron, paris paris and things going up thank you all. got to wrap it there. thanks. ready to mediate. now russia says it wants to help de-escalate tensions between the u.s. and north korea. we re live from moscow. and the president says dems and republicans will come together on health care. really? we ll ask a democratic lawmaker. plus, just plain scary. snow and ice sends jetblue passengers a frightening ride.
for the american people that is going to make a difference, especially with obamacare. the fact that the senate majority leader is saying this is not surprising because they didn t have the will to do the right thing from the beginning. to go back and to improve and make something better, a disastrous plan, obamacare, is not a bad thing, it s a good thing. just really quickly, ron, very quickly, so they repealed the individual mandate. what s going to happen to health care now? i mean, isn t that a crucial part of obamacare? what s going to happen now? people have to understand there were two components of obamacare. one was expanding medicaid which is unaffected by the change in the individual mandate. that was where most people ended up getting coverage. the individual mandate has to do with the individual insurance market. as i said, the long-term effect of pulling this out will presumably be to have fewer younger, healthier people in the system. it will tilt more toward sicker
every old fight from a year or two ago, and that s why the approval rating is in the dump. i want to talk about another tweet from the president, ron. he tweeted saying based on the fact that the unfair and unpopular mandate has been terminated as part of our tax cut bill which essentially repeals over time obamacare, the democrats and republicans will come together and develop a great new health care plan. mitch mcconnell told the npr that the senate will be moving on from repealing obamacare. let s listen to what he said we obviously were unable to completely repeal and replace with the 5248 senate. we ll have to look at the 51-49 senate, but i think we ll move to other issues. where does the obamacare fight go from here, ron? first of all, there are two great ironies from that tweet. in 2008 president obama as a candidates maybe mayor nutter
it is unlikely i think that they can go back at obamacare because what s left are the subsidies, insurance mandates, and the medicaid expansion. and all of those proved very politically difficult to remove. the last one in particular because so many republican governors rallied behind it. we are left with this very strange set of policies now where the administration is and the republican congress has taken out a pin, no doubt, from obamacare. one that may largely hurt their own voters. and of course everything they do in a year pamela? go ahead, mayor nutter. just, i mean, you would think after the disaster of a couple of times by the republicans for full repeal and replace politically, now going into 2018, you would think the last thing they would to do is go back to the disaster of early 2017. i think leader mcconnell is trying to give the president some indication that, why we re going to move on, maybe to some
we ll get health care taken care of in this country. reporter: republicans tried to repeal and replace obamacare, received insufficient, removed the bill, regrouped, and were left reeling after repeat defeats. the motion is not agreed to. reporter: the most dramatic courtesy of john mccain. we promised and failed. reporter: the gop had no major legislative victory all year until december. merry christmas, america. reporter: a $1.5 trillion gop tax plan passed with a partial repeal of obamacare, handwritten edits, and absolutely no democratic support. a white supremacist rally in charlottesville, virginia, began with a torching of a monument. one white supremacist ran his car into a crowd, killing 32-year-old heather heyer. the president failed to call out the white supremacists. i think there s blame on both sides