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People with preexisting conditions. president trump kept the focus on the individual mandate repeal tweeting later in the day, remember, the most hated part of obamacare is the individual mandate which is being terminated under our just signed tax cut bill. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell didnt say obamacare is dead today. here he is calling on senators to work together on health care legislation. >> the graham/cassidy proposal, they intend to obviously continue to work on. and my view of...

People with preexisting conditions. president trump kept the focus on the individual mandate repeal tweeting later in the day, remember, the most hated part of obamacare is the individual mandate which is being terminated under our just signed tax cut bill. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell didnt say obamacare is dead today. here he is calling on senators to work together on health care legislation. >> the graham/cassidy proposal, they intend to obviously continue to work on. and my view of...

Mandate which is being terminated under our just signed tax cut bill. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell didnt say obamacare is dead today. here he is calling on senators to work together on health care legislation. >> the graham/cassidy proposal, they intend to obviously continue to work on. and my view of that is as soon as we have the votes to achieve it id like to do that. 51-49 is a pretty tight majority. but id love to be able to make more substantial changes to obamacare than we have....

Expansion and protections for people with preexisting conditions. president trump kept the focus on the individual mandate repeal tweeting later in the day, remember, the most hated part of obamacare is the individual mandate which is being terminated under our just signed tax cut bill. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell didnt say obamacare is dead today. here he is calling on senators to work together on health care legislation. >> the graham/cassidy proposal, they intend to obviously conti...

Legislation would lead to higher premiums, shelby. go to you in a second. frank thorpe is joining us also by phone. capitol hill producer, keeping a whip count. >> third vote effectively kills the graham/cassidy proposal. all three of these republicans vote against, lose the votes they need to pass it. basically expected. susan collins had been telegraphing idea she would be voting no for days now, even at end of last week but waiting for cbo score, from the congressional budget office about the...

When he made this statement earlier, he said, quote, i cannot in good conscious vote for this graham/cassidy proposal. i believe we could do better, working together, republicans and democrats and have not yet really tried. so lets discuss this. former congresswoman lay worth is here of the independent womans forum board of directors. daniel dress ner, matt lewis, good evening. good to have you all on on this friday. dan, im going to start with you because this is an extraordinary legacy item fo...

Why was there any surprise that john mccain would not support this? >> well, youre absolutely right. i think when you look back at john mccains comments just a few weeks ago when the senate first debated their first go around at repealing and replacing obamacare, he was very passionate about the fact that any health care proposal that the senate was going to take up needed to go through regular order, and the graham/cassidy bill did not go through regular order. in fact, i think a lot of people ...

Terrible. honestly, terrible. i call up to different people. well, mr. president. could you have dinner with my wife, myself, my kids, my cousins, my uncles? and i would like to talk to you about it. okay. so they come over, the family. pictures all night. everything. okay. ill get a vote or whatever. but brutal. you know what that is, folks, right? its called brutality. >> the hopes for this latest repeal and replace bill. graham/cassidy went all but dark because mccain msnbc said he couldnt su...

Its something like acute pain either post-op or injury or something like this. this does not have really much to do with the more global issue and bigger issue of the opioid epidemic and i think its always important to remind or sort of to talk about this that we balance needing to do something about the abuse and misuse leading to addiction and overdose with the problem of chronic pain in this country, and you know, requiring better training and education for all providers for non-narcotic anal...

You ask any republican in the country about obamacare and they will give you the same message. they will tell you its failing, its collapsing, they will tell you all the problems its causing. they have no problem, every republican getting behind it and selling that message. now you put some kind of repeal, replace plan, a real specific plan out there, there has been a noticeable absence of major republican voices out there pushing this, advocating for it, selling it and its popped up in the poll...