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Including whether or not they have to make coverage for pre-existing conditions a requirement. one thing it does not do, one of the reasons its considered a skinny repeal is that it doesnt deal with medicaid at all, including the medicaid expansion which was at a very important part of the original affordable care act, affordable health care act. so what theyre talking about right now, anderson, the particulars of the skinny repeal are really not that important because there are very few people ...

Signed it, the heat would be on both parties to get their act together. >> im sorry. that he would be on republicans because you cant say that they are not ready to do something when chuck schumer is ready to fix obamacare, not repeal and replace it because they cant come up with a plan they havent been able to in seven years that would actually work. >> amazingly enough. >> so i have an idea. if they are so afraid of voting for something because they are afraid it might become law, dont vote fo...

Maintain the high wire act that abby is talking about. >> also allows them to say, look, were moving this forward, we passed this, were doing the best we can. >> this has been -- i have to say, i mean, im embarrassed for these people. >> you should be. >> this has been an absolutely abysmal performance here. seven years of saying they were going to do this. just give us the house. they get the house. give us the senate. they got the senate. gave us the white house. they got them all now. this is...

Fix it. >> well, i think thats disingenuous, we told them how we were going to fix it. we adomted the affordable care act and think people with preexisting conditions now get insurance and 20 million who didnt have insurance get insurance. we think that preventative care is now covered and i could mention other aspects we think have been successful. are there problems? we have said from the beginning there are things in the affordable care act that need to be addressed and seems to me thats the ...

Expert. but as we were sitting here watching the vice president and john mccain, as they were talking, john mccain walked away and patted the vice president on his hand and left behind standing there. it was interesting. body language. did you notice that? >> yeah, he kind of walked away. and the vice president was okay. >> so were going to walk away, but just for a moment. dont go anywhere. we need to take a quick break. and were going to continue to watch this vote. the vote is stalled on this...

Years of republicans saying that they were going to fix the affordable care act, that they were going to change it. policy after policy, idea after idea, it is not true that republicans didnt have ideas of how to do this. it is true republicans couldnt agree on a single strategy for reforming obamacare, and now it has failed and mitch mcconnell has said, its time to move on. that means its dead. this is a massive, colossal, cannot be overstated, failure for the republican party. >> theres a lot ...

Celebrating. we are relieved that millions and millions of people who would have been so drastically hurt by the three proposals put forward will at least retain their health care, be able to deal with preexisting conditions. deal with nursing homes and opioids that medicaid paid for. we are relieved, not for ourselves, but for the american people. but as i said, over and over again, obamacare was hardly perfect. it did a lot of good things. but it needs improvement. and i hope one part of turni...

But then we should sit down and trade ideas. lamar alexander and patty murray are already talking about doing that. im hopeful they can begin a series of hearings, nobody has said obamacare is perfect. nobody has said our health care system doesnt need fixing. the problem was when they started -- when they tried to pull the rug out from under the existing health care system, so change it, improve it but dont just take a knife and try to destroy it and put nothing in its place. and so we can work...

Annish about this, because there are fixes that need to be made. democrats have admitted that, president obama admitted that, hillary clinton when she was running admitted that. we need to figure out how to cover more people, how to fix the things that need to be fixed in obamacare. thats what we have to wait and see. >> jason? >> its a step in the right direction. its a win for the american people. people dont want trumpcare, and it looks like its not going to happen. senator mcconnell, he says...

With the administration this week. the interior secretary calling her up and threatening her. so the senate is harder to threaten than the house. senators are harder to sort of politically cajole if youre the white house. the house are on the ballot all the time. but the senators who have been around a little bit, theyre much harder to push around. >> this is a huge loss for republicans, a huge win for democrats, as im sure you will agree as youve been sitting by, watching this unfold. >> the wa...