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And twur and win more seats and get a bigger majority in the house and senate they have to be able to say they can deliver. today is one of thos if they dont deliver there is going to be really big issues. talking to white house officials they remind me they are not betting against house speaker nancy pelosi. they remind me these are the same cast and characters who pulled off obamacare, the transformational change when it comes to health care. it was tenuous, it was ugly, it was messy, but they...

Not have insurance that were promised affordable insurance and president trump with his executive order demanded that we come up with solutions and options like this for affordable individualized health insurance. >> laura: youre just trying to kill off obamacare. youre trying to kill it off and americas health insurance plans, they said we remain concerned that expanded use of short-term policies could further fragment the individual market, which would lead to higher premiums for many consumer...

Not have insurance that were promised affordable insurance and president trump with his executive order demanded that we come up with solutions and options like this for affordable individualized health insurance. >> laura: youre just trying to kill off obamacare. youre trying to kill it off and americas health insurance plans, they said we remain concerned that expanded use of short-term policies could further fragment the individual market, which would lead to higher premiums for many consumer...

Proposal. its a good one. its a good start. its incremental. we republicans get some things, real relief on the employer mandate, changing the threshold from 50 to 500 employees and returning back to a 40-hour workweek, repeal the medical device tax, democrats get things, too, on cost reduction sharing payments. this is progress. there are parallel efforts ongoing in the house and senate on bipartisan reform. the mistake democrats made with obamacare, they muscled the law through on a partisan b...

Is a true reflection of the individual. only a dignity memorial professional can celebrate a life like no other. find out how at sanfranciscodignity.com. president trump urging the senate to get back to work on health care or, quote, let obamacare implode. he tweet this had moments ago. if obamacare is hurting people, and it is, why shouldnt it hurt the insurance companies and why should congress not be paying what the public pays? lets discuss with democratic senator chris van hullen of maryl...

Obamacare. congressman, thank you for being with us. the president seems to be talking about this morning in the statement he just put out is withholding the subsidies to insurance companies, some $7 billion that goes to insurance company companies so that they can provide insurance to low-income americans, the people just above the poverty line. do you think it would be a good idea to withhold that money? >> no, i do not, john. first, withholding that money would ultimately hurt a lot of people...

Senator, thank you so much for being here. lets start with that question that the president poses one more time. why should congress not be paying what the public pays? whats the answer to that? >> first of all, obamacare is not hurting people. what would really hurt people is if we had passed trumpcare. we know from the nonpartisan congressional budget office that would have thrown millions of americans off obamacare. >> but you know that not everyone is happy with obamacare and -- >> we know i...

Pass with a simple majority, saying that republicans look like fools who are just wasting their time. >> i said from the beginning, let obamacare implode and then do it. >> reporter: also threatening to end subsidy payments to insurance companies and even eliminate some health benefits for members of congress if the bill is not passed. >> what hes saying is, look, if obamacare is hurting people, and it is, then why shouldnt it hurt insurance companies, and more importantly perhaps for this discu...

That still protects medicaid as this one does. with the assurances that the taxes stay in effect for the well-to-do, they might have the makings of this. the irony in this, had they agreed going into this that they werent going to repeal obamacare, which turns out they didnt do, they would be searching for republican senators to go along. we could talk about mandates on all of this stuff. they did not kill off obamacare. they kind of reigned it in. in the end, it is what it is. all right. senate...

Honestly, the leadership in the house and senate have failed donald trump. >> katrina: consistently at this point. i will take it a step further than vice president pence because yes, the president did campaign on repealing and replacing. the conservatives and moderates are having a disagreement. thats too bad. they are going to have to get over themselves because one of the things of that i think is missing from the discussion is republicans think they won in november and they didnt. donald tru...