but the considered analysis of the public is what we need to have and that needed to happen under obamacare and it needs to happen now. we don t need to be in such a hurry that the public doesn t get to weigh in and make their recommendations. the house version of the aca bill was introduced by nancy pelosi in mid-july 2009. it got voted on the floor in november. it was six months. does six months seem like an adequate or more proper framework to go through hearings? have public airing of this? well, that seems like a plenty long time when we look back on that. i didn t realize it was six months before we go to that november 7 vote. i remember that exact date. that s right. so but you know if we had four or five things to work this through, that would be an appropriate amount of time. the country is much more attuned to health insurance policy than they were then. i don t know if it takes as as long as to examine these things plus the public s experienced,
as they liked to say jammed down their throats. we need to slow down and get it right. like mom used to say, you rush and you make mistakes. i have never seen greater evidence that washington, d.c. is out of touch with the american people than the fact that democrats are going to continue in their head long rush to pass a government takeover of health care. that was in november. house republicans say they ll pass their bill in the next few weeks. today just three days after introducing the bill, they passed it through a pair of committees on party line votes after a pair of all night sessions moving forward despite the fact that congressional budget office has yet to score the plan. so we don t know nor have an estimate of how much it will cost or crucially how many millions of americans will lose their health care. today the brookings institution said the cbo will likeliest mate
companies themselves. how long have you been in congress, congresswoman? i m in my seventh year now and i have voted over 60 times against the repeal. so let me ask you this. your seventh year now. have you ever seen a piece of legislation of this magnitude being moved this quickly in your congressional career. no, and isn t this the same thing the rains accused the democrats of doing a year before i got here? we are voting on this bill and it hasn t even been scored by the cbo. we re expecting the cbo score in the next couple of days but right now we believe the cbo is going to show that about 15 million people will lose their coverage. do you think there is any way to stop this in the house? i mean, it s sort of remarkable to watch leadership go to work and i ve spoken to some of your republican colleagues, obviously, to basically ram this through. what are your options in the minority there?
keeping premiums lower? but insurance companies put in tens of millions of dollars and defeated those initiatives. so problems people say are because of obamacare, they re not necessarily because of the affordable care act, it s because there s not enough contl on the insce companies themselves. how long have you been in congress, congresswoman? i m in my seveh year now and i have voted over 60 times against the repeal. so let me ask you this. your seventh year now. have you ever seen a piece of legislation of this magnitude being moved this quickly in your congressional career. no, and isn t this the same thing the rains accused the democrats of doing a year before i got here? we are voting on this bill and it hasn t even been scored by the cbo. we re expecting the cbo score in the next couple of days but right now we believe the cbo is going to show that about 15 million people will lose their coverage. do you think there is any way to stop this in the house? i mean, it s s
as for president trump, he s in what the white house calls full sell mode the bill meeting with members of congress to talk budget and health care. heweeted spite what you hear in the press, health care is coming along great, we are talking to many groups and it will end in a beautiful picture. joining me now, republican congressman steve king of iowa and congressman, a lot of your colleagues, particularly the more conservative colleagues in the house and senate are in open revolt at the pace and process with which this bill is being considered. are you one of those individuals? i m not in open revolt but i am concerned about us not being able to get some of our conservative principles plugged into this legislation. so i m with those folks on the policy side of this thing but not on the revolutionary side. let me ask you this did you feel the affordable care act was passed too quickly? we fought it for a long time but in the end it was jammed through us and these are the word