We need to slow down and get it right. Like mom used to say, you rush and you make mistakes. Democrats are going to continue in their headlong rush to pass a government takeover of health care. From where i stand and frankly Many Republican senators stand who are troubled by the pace is of concern. We should have had more time to digest it. I guess history has a funny way of repeating itself. What a difference eight years doesnt make. Republicans today sounding a lot like republicans back in 2009 on Health Care Reform. Only this time, they are battling themselves. Can President Trump and House Speaker paul ryan bring their own party on board . This as one new report says at least 15 Million People, joe, will lose their Health Care Coverage under the new gop plan. This morning, we are going to speak live with the u. S. Secretary of health and Human Services dr. Tom price. Plus, the man responsible for whipping votes in the house, Republican Congressman Steve Scalise and congressman tim
the state trooper claimed bland acted combative after her routine traffic stop. dashcam footage showed the officer aggressively removed his gun when she refused to get out of her car. bland died in a jail cell three days after her arrest, sparking protests around the country. the trump administration is stanning by its plan to repeal and replace obamacare despite the setback in the senate. repealing obamacare matters and having health care coverage for american citizens matters. how we get there, we re willing to be flexible on how we get there, but we know that obamacare doesn t work so we have to repeal that. ath kathleen sebelius, secretary of health and human services under president obama, and charged with the implementation of the affordable care act. thanks for joining us. gary cohn saying that obamacare just doesn t work. hi, katy. it has to be repealed and they will come up with something to replace it.
and dropped it on the country and got killed, frankly, by it. what is so striking to me about the republican plan is for eight years, they have been saying obamacare just doesn t work. but, suddenly, they have a plan that they have could belbbled t in a hurry and don t have their troops in line. that is striking to me. i ve been talking with the people who met with president trump behind closed doors. these are major health care executives and others. they were quite surprised he was not very familiar at all with the cost structure, with the payment programs that they go through, how medicare is used. i think we need to have a lot more public discussion before this gets jammed through. it doesn t mean that obamacare is perfect by any means. i think that it works for the people from the bottom up, but after that, there are a lot of loose ends that need to be cleaned up. but the final thing is for a of the tlk about getting the budget back in balance, they are going to jam this through b
with tax reform, corporate tax reform and other incentives. so these companies to stay here of course there s going to be regulation. but not the type of choking regulation that is really hampering business development, business creation, and businesses thriving in this country. it s a winner issue across party lines, so i m not surprised that they re hitting it today. steve: he s also tweeting this morning about obamacare. two tweets actually. the first is president-elect tweeting people must remember that obamacare just doesn t work, and it s not affordable. 116% increases in arizona. bill clinton called it crazy and then in a second tweet, he s talking about the democratic governor of my home state mark who said famously the affordable care act obamacare is no longer affordable, and it is lousy health care. now, these tweets coming as congress maybe is looking at changes or tweaks to obamacare. even nancy pelosy hoping that republicans don t change it.