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Government shutdown, but i think on this, youve got, first of all, this is a zombie bill. this is not going to become law. it doea lot of dage to millions and millions of people but its going to go to the senate. if it changes at all, then the house is going to have to take it up again. theres not a lot of room for error there, but republicans own this. even the folks who voted against it, look, steve, i was in the house for five or six years. i was there when we passed the affordable care act a...

Years. >> a health care bill just passing the house this afternoon by the thinnest of margins. 217 republican votes for it. you see the ceremony there at the white house after, but this bill, this health care plan, far from the finish line right now. many hurdles it still has to clear before it goes into law. were going to take you through those. also on our agenda, democrats say the politics of this favor them. >> republicans have the majority. they won the vote, but the american people now h...

Cou coverage will be unaffordable. >> thats the big point. just because you have coverage doesnt mean youll be able to afford the coverage. what theyre saying with the new bill as opposed to the affordable care act, they had a community rating. affordable care act, everybody in a geographic region, regardless of your health problems, based on age, has premium set at the same standard. theyre says, lets get rid of that, if you have health issues we can go ahead and start charging you more. estima...

Thank you. thank you very much. this really is the group. what a great group of people. and theyre not even doing it for the party. theyre doing it for this country. because we suffered with obamacare. i went through two years of campaigning, and im 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 im concerned, your premiums, theyll start to come down. well get this passed through the senate. i feel so confiden...

Vulnerable. and it shifts power from washington back to the states and most importantly, back to you, the patient. like i said, we got a lot of work to do, but one thing is now 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-centered system. >> hugh, it was more than serve years ago that the affordable care act passed on all democratic votes in the house and the senate and republicans since...

We will undo this someday. we will undo this. it takes us to our most important member of the day, 2602. it has been 2602 days sense the house passed the affordable care act and today the republican house. the republican controlled house without a single democratic vote passed that republican health care replacement plan. think of that. more than seven years ago. lets put this into context. 2008, barack obama runs for president. he said ill do what democrats have been dreaming of doing for gener...

Bill, that isnt going to become law. and so, you know, there is -- theres not much that i can see that republicans get out of this as at least, you know, maybe they can say to their base, look, we were able to get something done. this was the easy part of the process. passing it through the house. the senate is a much harder beast for them and i dont see a lot of wiggle room there. if they lose three people, they arent going to be able to pass it through reconciliation. >> all right. doug thorne...

One of the untold stories are the dramatic increases in deductibles. so there are a lot of families that over 10,000 deductibles. for most people that means they cant even use the obamacare. not only when we go to the doctor do we have to pay so much for the premium but almost everything is out of pocket because we have such a large deductible. so im paying a lot of money for a health care plan that doesnt work for me. please provide relief for my family. we hear these stories over and over. and...

Welcome to the white house. and thanks to the leadership of president donald trump, welcome to the beginning of the end of obamacare. it was march 2010, seven years ago, democrats passed the government takeover of health care. and at that time republicans in congress promised the american people that law would not stand. today, thanks to the perseverence, the determination, and the leadership of president donald trump and all the support of those gathers here, weve seen a historic first step to ...

Ceremony. theyre certainly framing it that way but theres a long way to go on this. what do you think they were trying to achieve there? >> i have no idea. youre spiking the football on the 50-yard line, for gods sake. get back on the bus, go to the hill or go home or let to go. as i said, theres a lot more work to be done here. i think its very premature to assume where this bill is going to go. i think doug makes a very important point about how this could play out with the public. the dynamic...