only obamacare individual -- on the obamacare individual market. zero. many virginians recently learned they could also have fewer choices on the obamacare exchanges next year. in fact, people in 27 of the state's 95 counties could have just one option for coverage through the obamacare marketplace in 2018. tennesseans in 16 counties are in a similar distressing situation as they too are likely to have just one choice when it comes to signing up for insurance through the obamacare exchanges next year. so these are just the latest developments in obamacare's dwindling options which over the years have continuously pushed too many people off their plans and left them with fewer choices. take one knoxville, tennessee, woman who recounted her experience in a recent news article. in 2015, she signed up for an obamacare plan with one major insurer, but by the end of the year that company pulled out of the marketplace, leaving her to find a new plan. in 2016 she was forced to sign up for an obamacare plan with another insurer. again, at the end of the year that

but obamacare is failing. iowa yesterday, almost the entire state of iowa is about to lose every insurance carrier, meaning if you have a preexisting condition in iowa and you're in obamacare, you literally will have zero choices to buy healthcare. nowhere to go. that's not healthcare. that's not what people were promised. there is a better way. our bill actually fixes those problems and lowers premiums for families all across the board including with preexisting conditions. >> house majority whip steve scalise. thanks for your time. >> thanks. good to be with you. >> one of the republicans who voted for the bill will join me coming up next. stay with us. brought to you by -- when you have something you love, you want to protect it. at legalzoom, our network of attorneys can help you every step of the way. with an estate plan including wills or a living trust that grows along with you and your family. legalzoom. legal help is here. they open on a game show set in the 70's, in my johnsonville commercial, today

because we suffered with obamacare. went through two years of campaigning, and i'm telling you, no matter where i went, people were suffering so badly with the ravages of obamacare. and i will say this, that as far as i'm concerned, your premiums, they're going to start to come down. we're going to get this passed through the senate, i feel so confident. your deductibles, when it comes to deductibles, they were so ridiculous that nobody got to use their current plan. nonexistent plan i heard so many wonderful things about over the last three or four days after that. i mean, i don't think you're going to hear so much right now, the insurance companies are fleeing. it's been a catastrophe. and this is a great plan. i actually think it will get even better. and this is make no mistake, this is a repeal and a replace of obamacare. make no mistake about it. make no mistake. [ applause ] i think most importantly, yes, premiums will be coming down. yes, deductibles will be coming down. but very importantly, it's a great plan.

let's stipulate obamacare is far from perfect. there was some significant flaws in its execution including a website that went down. >> yes, i remember that one. >> here's the deal. i do too. it wasn't fun for anybody. here's the deal. there are always unintended consequences and i believe the unintended consequences of the bill that's being voted on now and what happens in the house-senate conference will plague republicans in the mid-term election. what i'm curious to see is this. at the end of the day when does this bill take effect. they move the effective date of this bill until after the mid-term elections of 2018 that's an admission they know that this thing is a monster. that this thing will be hugely problematic. first thing i suggest people look at as this bill winds its way through and right now we have premature jubilation because we have a long and rocky road before it comes back. what i'm looking at what is the effective date. post-mid-term election? >> democrats that's what they did. >> you're right. >> congressman

in kentucky, under obamacare, 49% of our counties -- 49% have one insurer -- one. kentuckians in half of our counties have one choice, and really when you have one choice you have no choice at all. it's not like the situation is unique to my state either. this year there are 26 states with at least one county where residents have only a single insurance option under obamacare. that means millions of americans living in more than 1,000 counties across the country really have no choice at all -- no choice at all -- when it comes to obamacare. those families didn't get the increased choices they were promised under that law. they've been left to shoulder the burden nonetheless, and things have only gotten worse over time. in fact, just this week people on the obamacare exchanges in three more states, vermont, virginia, and oregon learned they could face double-dinlt premium in -- double digit premium increases as high as 20% next year. i ask our democratic friends, are you really okay with obamacare's continuing attacks on the middle class? one constituent from lexing

the real thing to measure it against is against what obamacare really is. face it, people are losing coverage today in iowa, again for example, under obamacare, people have 100 percent increases today in arizona under obamacare, that is the measure. no not against the ideal of what they thought or wanted obamacare to be. >> dickerson: so then is the final ending point we are at here basically people will lose coverage but just not as much as you think they would have lost under obamacare? >>, no i think what they will end up is a different type of system that is more state driven, one of the things i think you saw in the bill this week, as the bill sort of evolved was divulging more and more control to the state, when the first version of the bill came out a couple of weeks ago we did that extensively with medicaid, i used to be in the state government and we used to beg the federal government, give us more control over medicaid and give us the money but let us provide for our own people at the local and state level and our bill did that. and you saw a litt

replace of obamacare. make no mistake. >> they rushed through a bill without knowing how many people would hurt. >> we will discuss the battle had. it's the fox news sunday exclusive. then, forget the politics, what will the new health care bill mean from -- for you. one of the architects of obamacare, jonathan gruber. plus, you're the president, but you are turning into a real dictator. >> if your baby is going to die and it doesn't have to, it shouldn't matter how much money you make. >> we will ask about the politics of late-night comedy. our power player of the week, up basketball player boun bonds wir sister and brings her to washington d.c. that's all right now on fox news sunday. hello again from fox news in washington. republicans have finally started making progress on their pledge to overhaul the nation's health care system. president trump held a celebration in the rose garden after they passed repeal and replace, but there was no celebrating at town hall where gop members who celebrated the bil

complaining about obamacare, ultimately they just don't have obamacare. so maybe they should take care of their states and leave everyone else alone. host: all right. let's go to california, an independent. two senators are opposed to the republican approach to say the least. what do you think the upper chamber should do? caller: good morning, rodney. i'm sorry, it's early. good morning, sir. i'm an independent, i voted for ms. harris and support ms. feinstein generally, and i supported in do support obamacare. in fact, i think we need medicare for all. this is really -- i don't even know what my message to the upper chamber is. i don't have much faith in them. republicans control the chamber, and yes, there was once a time in my lifetime when they were independent-minded republicans, independent-minded democrats. that's not the case. aboutee it, sir, this is old-fashioned -- allow me to say it -- an editorial page, federalism. their argument, maybe it is not trump's view, who knows what that is. however, it is just delegating to the states now. the lady

the goal is to replace obamacare with something different and i think everyone agrees obamacare has serious problems. here is president trump on obamacare after this passage of the house bill. >> i predicted it a long time ago. i said it's failing. now it's obvious. it's dead. we don't pay lots of ransom money to the insurance companies it would die immediately. chris: here are some steps. premiums under obamacare went up 24% across the country. the average number of insurers in each marketplace has dropped from 5.9 and 2015 to 3.9 now. in iowa, there is only one insurance company left in all but five counties in iowa and they just announced they are thinking of dropping out so there would be only one insurance company. >> whose fault is the spread before trump was elected there were no counties that didn't have an assure. since he has been elected. chris: wait, you're going to blame the problems of obamacare on trump. >> we have a situation under obamacare where there was a one time premium freeze last year that made up for the fact that they massively underpriced in the first two years. t

don't forget, obamacare took 17 months. hillary clinton tried so hard really valuedly in all fairness to get health care through. it didn't happen. we've been doing this for eight weekends and this is a real plan. this is a great plan. and we had no support from the other party. >> reporter: trump slamming obamacare and vowing to finish it off. >> i said it's failing and now it's obvious that it's failing. it's dead. it's essentially dead. we're going to finish it off and go on to a lot of other things and we are going to have a tremendous four years and maybe even more importantly, we're going to have a tremendous eight years but we're going to start off with just a great first year. >> reporter: the bill faces a tough road ahead in the senate where some moderate republicans are worried too many people could lose access to affordable care. the chamber is almost certain to make changes that could irk house republicans. still the president expressed confidence his party would prevail. >> we're going to get this passed throug

what kind of protection is obamacare if there are fio protection is obamacare if there are no plans to choose from? this is a trend that we are seeing all across the country. the truth is, this law has failed and is collapsing. premiums are skyrocketing and choices are disappearing. it is only getting worse, spiralling out of control. that is why we have to repeal this law and put in place a real, vibrant repeal this law and put in place a real, vibra nt marketplace, repeal this law and put in place a real, vibrant marketplace, with competition and lower premiums for families. that is what the american hellcat is all about, it makes health care more affordable, it takes care of our most vulnerable and shifts power from washington back to the states and, most importantly, back to you, the patient. like i said, we have got a lot of work to do. one thing is clear, republicans are committed to keeping our promise to lift the burden of obamacare from the american people and put in place a better, more patient centred system. it is my pleasure to welcome some to the stage that made this poss

obamacare took 17 months. hillary clinton tried so hard valiantly in all fairness through and didn't happen. we've been doing this for eight weeks. this is a real plan. a great plan. we had no support from the other party. so i just want to introduce somebody to say a few words who has been treated unfairly but no longer matters. we won and we're going to finish it off and we're going to go on to a lot of other things. we're going to have a tremendous four years and maybe even more importantly, we're going to have a tremendous eight years. we're going to start off with just a great first year. paul ryan, come up and say a few words. congratulations on a job well-done. [applause] >> thank you, guys. thank you. first, thank you, mr. president. thank you for your leadership. [applause] there are too many people to name who played such an important role who helped us in getting to this part. i want to thank a few people in particular. i want to thank kevin brady, diane black, pete sessions and the members of their

right now obamacare is failing. we have a failing health care. >> reporter: the president and the prime minister were at a black tie dinner, but it is clear that domestic politics front and center for president trump. they believe they need to carry this momentum from the health care bill, though without question, a legislative victory for president trump, something that allude e eluded him in the0 days. he got it in the second week after that. christine and dave. >> republican lawmakers say the bill will lower costs, but critics say millions could be facing higher bills or lose their insurance, but there are always winners and losers with big legislation. look, we're remaking, essentially remaking a fifth of the american economy here. all right, younger americans save under the new plan. they helped pay for older people under obamacare, so their premiums shrink up to $4,000 a year. the healthy pay less. states can offer cheaper plans if they waive coverage for things like maternity benefits and prescription drugs,

obamacare took 17 months. hillary clinton tried so hard, really valiantly, in all fairness, to get health care through. it didn't happen. we've really been doing this for eight weeks, if you think about it. and this is a real plan. a great plan. and we had no support from the other party. so i just want to introduce somebody to say a few words who really has been, i think, treated very unfairly. but it no longer matters. because we won and we're going on finish it off and go into a lot of other things and we are going to have a tremendous four years and maybe even more importantly, we're going to have a tremendous eight years. but we're going to start off with just a great first year. and paul ryan, come up and say a few words. congratulations on a job well done. >> thank you. first, thank you, mr. president, thank you. thank you for your leadership. there are too many people to name who played such an important role in helping us get to this part. but i want to thank a few people in particular. i want to than

trying to come together behind a proposal to repeal and replace obamacare. on the floor, regretfully, we have to go through a lot of procedural hoops just to confirm the deputy secretary of transportation, the number three of justice. onven had to file cloture the ambassador to china, who came out of the foreign relations committee unanimously. you can see the democrats want to make everything go as slow as possible, but we will work our way through that on the confirmations and we will be back in touch with you on health care. our conference has been sitting a lot of our time spinning about the path forward on health care. we know that obamacare is broken and needs to be fixed. everybody in this country i think no step. the status quo is unsustainable. we are looking for a way to make health care more affordable, more patient centered, more personalized for people in this country. there are one in three counties in america today that has one choice when it comes to health care options. iowa is losing its last provider in the individual marketplace, and that

obamacare? >> what protection is obamacare if there is no health care plan to purchase in your state? this is the direction obamacare is rapidly heading. >> obamacare still despite today's vote remains the law of the land, but republicans say that it is collapsing before our eyes. trump says it's in a death spiral. is it? we will get into that and much more. again, a very busy and very significant moment in american politics right now. the headline here, the second time is the charm, apparently, for republicans when it comes to getting their health care replacement bill through the house. remember, it collapsed at the end of march. they made some changes and they got their plan passed today in the house. then that ceremony there at the rose garden, a triumphant ceremony with president trump atte attending. this the first major piece of legislation he's gotten through the house. here is what the president had to say. >> i want to thank paul ryan. he has worked so hard. and i was joking, i said, y

we know that obamacare is broken and needs to be fixed. everybody in this country, i think, knows that. the status quo is unsustainable. we are looking for a way to make healthcare more affordable, more patient centered, more personalized for people in this country. there are one in three counties in america today who have one choice when it comes to options and individual market. as you all heard last week, iowa , is losing its last provider and individual marketplace and that leaves 72000 i once without coverage. if, that does happen. the mid-level plan this year's opinions got by 25%. it is a disaster. it is in a death spiral. it has to be fixed. we intend to fix it. we are going through that process right now with art members and getting the best ideas and charting a path forward that will lead us to a place where we have something better for the american people and certainly, we deserve better than what were getting with obamacare. >> well, the entrance comedies are starting to come out with the premium suggestions for what they're go

>> i was in the house when obamacare past. i voted for it, it passed in a party line vote as this first day. we are just trading bad for that, why don't we think about american health care, not republican health care or obama health care. this got reince priebus, a very good job on your show, and pauline over the golan, but it's going to be a do over in the senate and it's not going to look anything like the house bill if it even passes. >> chris: to agree with the speaker that obamacare is collapsing? >> i agree that there are issues with obamacare, and part of that is the bill that passed the house of congres committee on a bipartisan basis. we just repeated the same movie by having a belt that didn't go through committee, that isn't scored by cbo, and that came out just as our leadership with a press release. >> chris: with pivot a little bit to the politics all of this. there was a good deal of pushback to the optics, take a look at this picture, of the presidents victory celebration with house republicans in the rose gard

it will repeal obamacare taxes. it will repeal obamacare rules. it will repeal obamacare subsidies. and it will do what is right by stopping taxpayer -- taxpayer funding for abortion providers by refocusing medicaid on those who most need it. and we replace all of that with a system that protects those with pre-existing conditions. mr. speaker, i heard a lot about this bill and this bill is not ,000 pages. it's less than 130. i've heard things on this floor that are not true. so let me state it one more time. we will replace it with a system that protects with pre-existing conditions and reduce premiums through the tried and true process of fair competition. and as the price of insurance decreases, we give those who still can't quite afford it a step up through tax credits and expand health savings accounts. this is fundamental and structural reform. now mr. speaker, since i've had the honor to stand on this floor and serve in this house, this body has done many good things. 2 we have stood time and again for what was best for our country. struggling against other branches for so lo

all the obamacare taxes. the obamacare taxes are job-killing taxes that hurt economic growth and make health insurance more expensive. these taxes, most of them are aimed at the health care system, which makes the premiums higher. it pushes medical device companies overseas. it makes it more expensive to buy health care. that's point number one. point number two -- >> most of the benefits go to millionaires. >> medicaid -- it's -- we're repealing all of the obamacare taxes. medicaid, we're giving the states the ability to customize medicaid to meet the particular needs of their vulnerable populations. you have to remember that medicaid is done by the states by micromanaged by the federal government. but not very well. more and more doctors are refusing to accept people with medicaid. we want to give the states the ability to customize the medicaid program to work for their states. >> you're saying they can do that with $880 billion less. you're saying they can do it with $880 billion less. >> we're -- we're g

want obamacare. the problem is, millions of americans don't want obamacare. and look, we were elected on a mandate to do this. not like there's any secret both house and senate republicans have said we're going to repeal and replace obamacare. donald trump when he was running for president said he was going to repeal and replace obamacare. the country got to have a say in this in the presidential election in november and spoke loud and clear that they're done with this law. it doesn't work for families. they want to repeal and replace and we're following through. >> inside baseball what's the margin of victory today? >> we will get a majority of the votes and pass this bill. >> three, four, five? >> 216 is the magic number. that's what we're focusing on and look, this is going to be a rescue mission that starts today, let the senate go make more improvements to it, bring it back through the regular process but get it on to donald trump's desk because he wants to sign this bill into law and follow thr

obamacare is failing. there are areas of the country today that no plans are being offered in these individual exchanges. so whether trump had won or mrs. clinton had won, we would be addressing the problem. since trump won, we're addressing it from a conservative market based way. if mrs. clinton had won, they would be addressing it from a more government intervention way. >> there isn't that example yet, but iowa is on there. i understand the problems. but you said this is not opting out of quality care. but would it not opt some people out of against their will affordable care. yes, you have the amendment. almost all the experts you ask, including the head of the american medical association says it is not nearly enough money to make it affordable for folk. >> i would say they're wrong. i believe that markets will work. >> how do you know that? i mean, these are the people -- this is their job to do these numbers. >> congressman, the high pools existed before when there were these markets you were talki

under obamacare. your response? >> it's hard to watch that jimmy kimmel clip. my own son who is in his 20s, and has almost the same heart condition. when he turns 27, he goes out on the market. most of the jobs he has had are freelance jobs with no benefits. he's like 1 in 4 americans that are, with histories of cancers, diabetes, heart conditions. and my worry, as a father, as a cancer surgeon is that, when we say we're going to put people into high-risk pools, we have seen what that is. high-risk pools are separate insurance plans for people with pre-existing conditions. they've historically had very low coverage. waiting lists. poorer coverage. and high costs. it's -- it's chilling to imagine my telling my son those are where he would end up going or my own patients. >> and the medicaid savings. about $880 billion in savings according to the congressional budget office. >> right. it cuts the 70 million people on medicaid by about a quarter. for the rest of the people, there's a cap, whether it's th

we tried the obamacare way. it is failing remarkably. >> house republican plan would give states more flux ability to go after premium costs. it would stop medicaid expansion and require those who are able-bodied to work. it would include refundable tax credits for those who don't receive insurance from their employers. it would expand health savings accounts designed to give consumers greater choice and flexibility in buying coverage and it would defund planned parenthood for one year, blocking more than 500 million federal dollars. >> our bill rescues families by focusing on lower premiums and putting people back in charge of their health care decisions. >> michigan congressman offered an amendment yesterday that would provide $8 billion for people with pre-existing conditions and announced he now supports the bill. democrats mocked the g.o.p.'s challenge getting enough support. >> i have to say to my friends on the other side, you sold out cheap, as we say in new jersey. >> the upton amendment is an admission

obamacare is basically republican care. it is the idea that if you give everybody a mandate, everybody's price will come down. that is a failed system. i noticed you said you are a new group that pro-business. that is the problem with the democratic party. business is not a friend of the american people. they are out for profit. we need a party of progressives that fight for the people on the ground. me finishiends -- let my thoughts. not the friends of the businesses, right? bernie was that person. he was cheated. let me move on to obama. host: we will have to leave it there and i apologize. looked at my -- my voting record, it is pretty progressive. that all business is anti-people is nonsensical. that is just rhetoric. businesses, last time i checked, employ people. -- all business is bad and we ought to be suspicious of all of it, let me say, is just flat out, i think, mindless. secondly, from a political point of view, it would be the absolute death of the democratic party. politics 422n years and have been quite succe

he is talking about pulling out of obamacare marketplaces. just yesterday they announced they're with drawing from virginia saying it's on track to lose $200 million this year alone. it's considering leaving most counties in that state without any insurer on obamacare in 2018 and it also may leave the program leaving most counts in a state you see them pull out of the counsel and leaving with no coverage but i think that's what spicer is talking about that it leaves little access to care and you have all of these people and then you have that wait so if you have a chronic condition you're waiting to go to the doctor. >> we don't know that. we know there were prior to obamacare but we also don't know that's why this will increase options on the marketplace. we'll try to get to the bottom of it in the next hour. >> pumping $8 billion into high risk pools won't match obamacare protections for pre-existing conditions. how do high risk pools work? insurers have to cover everyone that will wind up jacking up premiums for americans with pre-existing

he knows obamacare fails. but it's failing because it's hurting families and he said, how can we lower premiums? how can we give patients more control of their health care? and ultimately all of the meetings that we had along the way that made this bill better were focused on those objectives. and that's why it's so important we got this first step done today. there's a lot of work left to be done, and i look forward to the designate taking the action they -- senate taking the action they need to make but getting a bill to president trump's desk to sign and put patients back in charge of their health care decisions and lower remiums. and the man that led the charge in starting this process in the committee was the house energy and commerce committee chairman, greg walden. i want to bring him up. [applause] mr. walden: thank you, mr. scalise. ladies and gentlemen, mr. president, mr. vice president, it's been a pleasure and an honor to work with you hand in hand to get this bill to this point. and i want to tell

we know obamacare has failed. so as states men, do we just sit back and say i told you so or do we find a so lug lution to the problem? i think people should come forward with their ideas to solve the problem. if the democrats are arguing nothing should happen i want them to look in the eyes of the people in the counties or what about the 23 co ops that were given more than $2 billion? what about the collapse of 19 of those? where are they defending that? where are they helping those people with health care? >> they argue -- because they're not here to defend themselves, they argue obamacare is not perfect, but the answer is not to completely repeal it. it's to try to fix it and to work together to do that. >> it's far from perfect. we found you have less options. you have no health care. how are you going to pay for medicaid? we just passed an omni yesterday. it was roughly a trillion dollars. >> a budget bill. >> yes. to pay for discretionary funding of government. a trillion dollars. in less than ten years just

in this article they point out obamacare coverage estimates. cbo estimates for obamacare coverage by year in the million of enrollees. for example, in 2013 they projected that seven million enrollees would enroll in obamacare, and it was six. well, that's not too far or off, but let's look at 2015. 2015 they said 13 million would enroll and 11 million enrolled. again, that's ball park. but then -- ballpark. but then you go to 2016. they predicted 21 million would enroll in obamacare. do you know how many enrolled in 12 million. they missed it by almost 50%. that's not close. and then 2017 they projected it would be 15 million, and it was 10 million. so i say that not to disparage the congressional budget office, because i know they're doing the best they can. but it's hard to predict the future, and it's also hard to predict how markets will work and how people will respond to the incentive of more choices and lower costs.tioned, as i mentioned, this is not a red state or a blue state issue because, as i mentioned in missouri alone, hhs has sai

>> i was in the house when obamacare past. i voted for it, it passed in a party line vote as this first day. we are just trading bad for that, why don't we think about american health care, not republican health care or obama health care. this got reince priebus, a very good job on your show, and pauline over the golan, but it's going to be a do over in the senate and it's not going to look anything like the house bill if it even passes. >> chris: to agree with the speaker that obamacare is collapsing? >> i agree that there are issues with obamacare, and part of that is the bill that passed the house of congress didn't resemble what we did in committee on a bipartisan basis. we just repeated the same movie by having a belt that didn't go through committee, that isn't scored by cbo, and that came out just as our leadership with a press release. >> chris: with pivot a little bit to the politics all of this. there was a good deal of pushback to the optics, take a look at this picture, of the presidents victory celebration with ho

plan to trash obamacare. back to the house floor now for more of the debate from before the house approved the bill. om mr. burgess: mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. burgess: mr. speaker, after seven years we have heard the stories from our constituents, from our patients, from our friends, from our families who have suffered under the affordable care act. today, we'll have a chance to vote on a plan that will rescue and revitalize the market and lower costs and increase flexibility for patients to choose and keep a health insurance plan that works for them and their families. however, before we can do that, we have to pass a bill that will insure that members of congress and their staffs are treated the same way as the rest of america. so let's be clear. we firmly believe that members of congress should live by the same rules as everyone else. period. the bill we're considering now will make a simple technical correction to insu

tammy is a cnn writer who covers obamacare and health policy. do we know what types of pre-existing conditions would qualify someone for the pools. >> the pricey ones, cancers, heart disease, diabetes, but there are also conditions you might not think of. in maryland one state accepted a kid with acne. >> what would happen next for these people? >> well, that remains to be seen. it will depend on whether they live in a state opts to wave these protections. that waiver is actually going to be pretty easy to get. so it's really going to be up to the state because every state would run their own pool. those that opted for the paver. but presumably they would probably try to apply for insurance. they'd get denied. then they'd be able to apply for for this high risk pool. >> let's talk about the changes to essential benefits. insurers must cover certain conditions. there is a provision that allows states to be -- >> well, states could opt out of covering the ten essential haelg health benefits, like substance abuse, mental health, maternity. these ar

this is a country that initially was one of the cheerleaders for the obamacare exchanges. when you look at counties all around the country, seven out of ten counties are down to one or two mac choices. total under the exchanges of obamacare. we don't want the business and we don't want to sell there. people at home are seen increased premiums, there seemed fewer choices and were working on getting a healthcare system that's better than the one that we had before obamacare. >> in the first year of the implantation of obamacare, i went to the floor virtually every week with story after story after story of missourians and their families who simply were losing the healthcare they had. one family whose son was born with a significant problem, he was 20, had the same doctors his entire life but under obamacare they lived under the kansas border and their doctors were on the kansas side, there was no insurance policy they could qualify for that had those doctors. so, they decided to go without insurance and put their personal money behind letting him go to the doctors he'd alway

in his words, he said, obamacare is essentially dead today. is it? >> no, of course not. you know, the president also said this will easily get through the senate and he's completely confident of that. he may be the only one in washington who is completely confident of that. no, the affordable care act persists, and if they can't figure out something better, i sure hope it continues to persist. i think they're going to find it very difficult to get the senate republicans in agreement with the house republicans. they didn't obviously have much of a margin to spare here in the house. but the bottom line is, you know, what's good for the american people. the only reason i hope they're unsuccessful is i think this would be a dramatic and terrible step backwards, that would disenfranchise millions much people from access to healthcare. >> congressman, i want you to stand by. there's more to discuss. i have to take a quick break. we will resume our conversation right after this. aranteed. plus earn free nights and instant rewards at check-in. yeah.

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really want to repeal obamacare. you see this with some of the holdouts who said they are not going to be able to vote for this bill. they are saying this bill doesn't protect preexisting conditions in the same way obamacare does. even president trump said it will protect preexisting conditions as well as obamacare. republicans say they want to repeal obamacare, but a lot of them don't want to repeal the core parts of obamacare, the subjects does, regulations and medicaid expansions. kennedy: we talked about it's times. they are renaming the individual mandate. and the subsidies for medicaid are still there. and it will still see some expansion. and that perhaps has been deferred by a little bit. these are issues by the gop which used to be a cost-cutting organization. but not anymore. i'm curious. where do republicans go from here? are they on the road to failure? >> it's unclear right now. the vote is close. it's possible we could see a vote by the end of this week. it's also possible this vote will never come in t

and obamacare. this getting rid of obamacare and the 50 employee rule and the 50 employee penalty where small business couldn't growth over 50 employees before necessity started to pay the penalty. getting rid of that will allow company to the grow again. there is a formu. donald trump cpaigned on it. these aren't just republicans getting jobs. these are american jobs. president trump is delivering for the entire country across all spectrums with these job reports, and this will keep on winning. this is president trump's economy, this is his stock market. we have never done better as an economy and it will keep happening. liz: you make a good point about manufacturing jobs. when you have blue chip companies building in cities, house prices go up and the government can collect more property revenue. >> more income tax revenue. wage growth up 2.5%. this is the best number in 10 years for that, too. too. that's the thing about lowering the tax rate. it does bring more money into not only every family's

the campaign promise to repeal and replace obamacare. >> this is repeal and replace of obamacare. >> a major victory for the trump administration. jenkins is live in washington with the latest this morning. >> one step closer to the holy grail of campaign promises, repealing and replacing obamacare, donald trump showing swagger is the bill had to the senate where it faces a tough test, the president confident it will pass. >> we will get it through. the republicans are united like seldom before. the republicans came together all of a sudden two days ago, like magic. they came together, very united every group from freedom caucus to every single group. >> the house approved the bill 217-213 with 20 gop defections, democrats lining up to pan the passage the renovating fellow republicans with the message they just sealed their fates. >> 16-44 to enhance sanctions to north korea. >> nancy pelosi taking to the mic to say they now own it. >> they were glow-in-the-dark. duped into walking the plank for a bill that will not become law. >> a key campaign promise central to every republican ra

obamacare. >>> minority leader nancy pelosi speaking just moments ago as well. >> as bad as trumpcare was the first time around, you know, it was dead, it died. it died right here on the floor. now it's come back to life like a zombie, even more scary than before. >> all of this action comes with lingering unanswered questions about the bill's cost and how it would affect your next doctor's visit. what we know, coming up. >>> then there's the trump factor. this vote could set the stage for the president's first significant, if not controversial, legislative accomplishment since taking office. but let's start with the politics of t. we have our reporters in washington. let's go first to mike vacarra who is on capitol hill. you've been speak to go republicans. some haven't said whether or not they're going to vote on this bill. how sure is leadership that they have the votes necessary? >> katy, a lot of times what will happen is republican leaders, or democratic leaders, for that matter, when ther

just yesterday, a new shoe drops every week on obamacare. just yesterday blue cross and blue shield said it will pull out of 32 counties in kansas and missouri and affect 67,000 people, setting all the losses it had taken over 2016, the company said and i quote, this is unsustainable. this is exactly why we are on a rescue mission. between premiums surging up and choices going away, obamacare is on an unsustainable path. the blue cross blue shield are the nonprofits and typically the last. when they are pulling out of kansas and missouri, we have a serious problem. this law is in the middle of a collapse. we need to bring down the cost of coverage. and we need to revitalize the market so people have real choices and real access to affordable health care. that's what our plan will do. we'll give you a copy of this ortfer -- this report or go to hhs.gov. [inaudible] the speaker: there is never a call for physicalal ter occasion. there is no time that should occur with the press or just between human beings. so that is wrong and should not have

so badly, with the ravages of obamacare. concerned, your premiums will start to come down, we will get this passed through the senate, i feel so confident. your deductibles, when it comes to deductibles, they were so ridiculous that nobody got to use their current plan. this nonexistent plan that i hurt so many wonderful things about over the last three or four days. after that, i think you'll hear so much. right now, the insurance companies are fleeing. it has been a catastrophe. this is a great plan, i think it will get even better. make no mistake, this is a repeal and replace of obamacare, make no mistake about it. make no mistake. [applause] most importantly, yes, premiums will be coming down, deductibles will be coming down. very importantly, it is a great plan, that is what it is all about. we knew that is what was going to work. i predicted it a long time ago. now, it is obvious that it is failing, it is dead. rent ao pay lots of money over to the insurance companies, it would die immediately. this is something that

president, obamacare has failed. republicans are committed to finding long-term solutions to our nation's health care needs. thank you, mr. president. i yield the floor. i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from delaware. a senator: i ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. carper: thanks, mr. president. good afternoon. there is an african proverb. goes something like this. if you want to go fast, go alone. if you want to go far, go together. if you want to go fast, go alone. if you want to go far, go together. the past agreement was developed in that spirit, that 1895 nations and ter -- 195 nations and territories can do more to protect our planet from climate, the great ets challenge -- greatest challenge of our lifetime than any united states or any country can do isolated or on its own. more than 200 countries have agreed to do t

he knows obamacare fails. but it's failing because it's hurting families and he said, "how can we lower premiums? how can we give patients more control of their health care?" and ultimately, all of the meetings that we had along the way that made this bill better were focused on those objectives. and that's why it's so important we got this first step done today. there's a lot of work left to be done, and i look forward to the senate taking the action they need to take, but ultimately, getting a bill to president trump's desk that he will sign and actually rescue families and put patients back in charge of their health care decisions and lower premiums. and the man that led the charge in starting this process in the committee was the house energy and commerce committee chairman, greg walden. i want to bring him up. [applause] chairman walden: thank you, mr. scalise. ladies and gentlemen, mr. president, mr. vice president, it's been a pleasure and an honor to work with you hand in hand to get this bill to this

reviewing obamacare was a key campaign pledge for president donald ramotar -- repealing obamacare was a key campaign pledge for president donald trump. the american medical association has criticized this new bill, saying that millions of people will lose their coverage. white house correspondent philip crowther explains just how close today's vote was. philip: it is a tight vote. all democrats decided to vote against this bill and 20 republicans also decided to vote against it. these are largely republicans who are in districts where in 2018 when the midterm elections come along, they might be in a little bit of danger if this doesn't work out for them. in other words, if a lot of americans do end up losing their health insurance, because of this bill, if indeed it makes it to the senate and is validated by the senate and is been signed into law by the president. -- and is then signed into law by the president. the previous version of this bill was going to lead to 14 million americans losing the health insurance by 2018. that was according to the cbo. for this one, the one that has

they have obamacare insurance but four out of ten adults in america with obamacare insurance are having trouble affording their deductibles. three out of every ten with insurance under obamacare said they have problems paying their medical bills. one in four americans with insurance under obamacare said that the costs have forced them to put off health care that they needed or skip it entirely. these people are suffering because of president obama and the democrats and what they passed. these americans are struggling because of the flawed policies and regulations of the obamacare law that democrats in washington wrote. republicans are saying what we've said all along. health care reform should be about helping people to get the care they need from a doctor they choose at a lower cost. we need to do something to rescue the people who are being crushed under this collapsing obamacare system. that's why republicans are the ones talking about solving the problems that have been caused by obamacare. the house of representatives passed a bill that includes some important things that could hel

the person on obamacare. -- he is saying obamacare was imploding is because they constantly are trying to defund it, to make it bad. a lot of states opted out. the things they were trying to make bad is why people said we cannot get this and that. i feel a lot of people will be hurt, a lot of people not in short, they will take -- not they will take money out of health care to put more money in the budget to rich people. that is a bunch of crap. the: this is a headline in you knew -- new york times, and rare show of unity, hospitals, doctors, insurers, reject the health-care bill. it says the impact is wide-ranging and potentially impacting those who could lose coverage or no longer afford to buy coverage in the state marketplace. with states allowed to seek waivers from providing certain benefits, employers could scale back what they pay you year or reimpose lifetime limits on coverage. small businesses, some of which were strongly opposed to be for will care act, could be free to drop coverage with no penalty. the prospect of millions unable to afford coverage led to a health grind -