perhaps even before then. even when republicans were in charge of all three, the house, senate and the white house early in the trump administration, they had the repeal part down but never the replacement. i think that will be the challenge for congressional republicans should they ever return to the majority perhaps in 2022 in the house or senate. they know what they are against. on health care, they have never been unified in what they are for. we saw this in that late night vote to try to repeal the health care law in 2017. of course, john mccain s famous thumbs down moment. republicans were united in repealing but broken and disunified in replacing. trying to get rid of obamacare and figure out what would take its place later. to the best of my knowledge, in the intervening years, there has been no serious legislative effort to figure out what that replacement would be. unless and until congressional republicans get serious with coming up with an alternative to
the president often likes to blame john mccain for not replacing obamacare. that is totally false. what john mccain and two other republican senators voted against was a skinny repeal of the health care law to advance that to a house senate conference committee, which still had a lot of challenges, just to get the repeal part through. they were nowhere near a replacement because the party has been at odds coming around a single approach. to say there s going to be a plan now, they had the opportunity to do that. trump has floated this idea before over the last couple of months only to see mitch mcconnell swat it down. i think we ll see if he actually does come forward with something. one group of people that would love for him to come forward is democrats. they would love for this presidential election to be about health care. they look at the 2018 midterms with health care was on the table. they feel like they flipped a lot of those red seats to blue on that promise. my question i
luther strange said he will not vote for the bill either. it s not real repeal. he lines up with rand paul. the health care repeal may remain a zombie concept here on capitol hill. it s hard to she how the republicans get the votes. the interests are list aligned. noord to get more votes on one side you will lose the vote on the other side. they have tried this math a few times and it just doesn t seem to add up pt it does seem that the next direction they are going to have to go in, gerrit, is to try and get democratic support, to try to do it in a real bipartisan fashion. i mean democrats have ideas about if you want to break of the down this way you can say democrats have ideas about replace. they have been talking about the solutions of fixing obamacare. republicans are mostly focused on the repeal part. republicans agree on repeal. the fundamental problem getting anything passed has been they don t agree on replace. if you can get enough
costs thousands of dollars, i don t know what would happen. here s what paul ryan said about health care tonight. i think what we have offered make sure that we fulfilled the objective we all want, affordability, accessibility and make sure people get good health care without going broke and without getting sick. that s what we want to achieve. that s why we can t take doing nothing for an answer. randy, what is wrong with what speaker ryan is proposing? your mom would be okay, based on his goals here. what he s doing is he s taking away they have the repeal part down. they voted for it, i don t know how many times. they haven t offered anything in return. all they re doing is just offering they re going to take people s health care away and allow the wealthiest people more wealth. that s why they need to get this
your mom would be okay, based on his goals here. what he s doing is he s taking away they have the repeal part down. they voted for it, i don t know how many times. they haven t offered anything in return. all they re doing is just offering they re going to take people s health care away and allow the wealthiest people more wealth. that s why they need to get this done before they can work on the tax cut bill, as he slipped up twice. the time is overdue for medicare for all. it s going to help create jobs. it s something that employers won t have to worry about. it s doable. but it doesn t have to be done right away. senator tammy baldwin has come up with legislation to lower the age to 55. if we do it in steps, it ensures health care for everybody, which is something every american deserves. his family, they benefit from the best health care available in the united states. don t the rest of the american people deserve the same thing?