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Was easy and this is hard. lets try to fix what is wrong with the aca because there are real issues and get involved in this process. youve chosen not to do that? >> nothing could be further from the truth. weve said that we peetdly over and over, that what we need to do is not treat the affordable care act like its a clock running a little slow and take a sledgehammer, which is what this legislation does, what we need to do is sit down, work out the kinks, the problems, the challenges that we k...

Congressmen on who peeled back the curtain and said really theres eight sort of that you have to rely on and, if its just single digits, when youre sitting there on the floor and the votes happening, theres a lot of pressure and you might pass it at the 11th hour there. >> you might pass it and then what happens? it goes over to the united states senate and everything weve seen done in the house is probably going to get untied when it gets to the senate. guess what? they have to come together in...

Plan that doesnt work. thats why this is the first phase of the process to bring about patient-centered health care where patients and families and doctors are making medical decisions and not wad. >> well, at the latest counted, cnns latest whip count is there are still 31 no or leaning no vote votes; so how will it pass? >> you have to have the votes to pass. its important to keep focus on the people of this land, the patients across this land. the mom who has two kids who took her son to the ...

Which republican wants to explain to their constituents why they voted to keep obamacare? they are hoping that not the details get them over the finish line, but the sense that republicans have been wanting this for so long here. i can tell you the blame game already starting this morning. the president, i am told, is unhappy with members of his own staff. he does not believe house republican leaders have done enough on this. but at the end of the day the blame will also rest with the president ...

Vote. theres already a sense here at the white house hes ready to turn the page and move on to other things. the white house just announced a few moments ago at 10:15 hell be assigning legislation to move the keystone pipeline forward, clearly trying to change the conversation and subject from health care. but on capitol hill right now the beginning of this process is under way, the rules committee is meeting. thats the process to begin the way for a vote. theyre still expecting a vote on obamac...

Goes to a conference committee. this is the legislative process. thats why i keep asking folks, you and your colleagues and folks on the hill, its important to concentrate on the folks affected by that. thats the patients and moms and dads across this land who arent able to gain the kind of care they need with the current system on the exchange. you have governors across this nation who tell us they arent able to care for their medicaid population, their full neshl population in the way they see...

Millions of people will lose their coverage with this latest plan, what do you tell people who are worried about that and who say, you know what? the devil we know is better and id like to stick with what we have? >> i would tell people that what the cbo looked at was not the plan. what the cbo looked at was this one piece of legislation thats going to change through the ledgelyive process and they made an estimate. understanding their estimates in the past have been off by significant numbers. ...

Place other pieces of legislation so you can purchase insurance across state lines, bring about medical malpractice lawsuit abuse reform, do the kinds of things that will drive down premium costs for folks so theyre actually able to afford a coverage plan that works for them. >> dr. price, your goals sound lofty and good. in some ways, is all of this an exercise in futility? all of this hand ringing today, because even if it does pass, even if you are able to cajole the recalcitrant republicans ...

People understand on the hill, these are the things that everybody need to understand to make sure patients are in charge and not washington, d.c. this is where we need to drive down the decision making to individuals. thats how they know the care will be right for them. >> sounds a little bit like what youre saying is you have to pass it today to know whats in it? >> no, you can see whats in it. weve been very, very transparent about it. >> meaning its going to change. youre saying its going to...