now. you think about ohio where they have a big opioid problem, there are others who might be swayed by that. there s a lot of dealmaking like that that goes back into what can i get you that s not related to the health bill that gets you on here? jon: that s what republicans were criticizing so much. the original arm-twisting that led to the creation of obamacare, the louisiana purchase, the cornhusker kickback. less the criticism they are facing is this dealmaking goes on. jon: is it likely that mitch mcconnell is going to throw this in? what we are hearing is right now, a lot of the debate comes around the taxes that are in the affordable care act. whether they pull them all back or leave some in. you mentioned the opioid money, that might have to come from
go away. talk about infrastructure. go where? anything else. golf. tweet. whatever. just stay away from health care. and i actually would want this bill to fail. i think whoever owns health care as a party is going to suffer for it. and people forget yes, obama was re-elected after passing obamacare. the democratic party suffered six straight years of electoral reversals because it owned obamacare. as a political matter, putting the policy question aside, why do republicans want to grab that ball and run with it? americans are ambivalent about health care. they re not going to be able to resolve this ambivalence and republicans don t want to own this as their first order of business in congress. how about republicans messing with obamacare is actually the thing that sort of rescued obamacare from what bret described it was political baggage. he did it because it was the right thing to do, not because
same time? does that make sense? no, it doesn t make sense and i think that certainly the word and term welfare has a negative connotation. they need to use my tax dollars tone sure the 49% of births in this country that are funded in part by medicaid that those women are able to have healthy and safe births, then i m willing to pay a little bit more for that and willing to pay for the disabled, poor children and elderly to get the care they need. in this country we have to take care of ourselves and insurance as an idea is about paying into a system so that it s there for you when you need it when you actually get sick and it s not as if we have a choice. certainly there s always the line, young people won t sign up for health care. you heard that a lot when they were first passing obamacare. they mean young men because women reproductive age and have to go to the doctor at least every year for a number of years, and obamacare allows to you stay on your parents insurance until you
make a way to get everybody covered and keep them covered. that s what s playing out right now. that tension. senator, what is your advice, though, at this point to your democratic colleagues right now? they have little power to do anything about this, other than complain like republicans did when democrats pushed through obamacare. right. you know, i think senator mcconnell will get 50 votes, that s the magic number. he ll twist arms on the right and on the left. he ll get to 50. he s going to get this passed, there s no doubt about that in my mind. democrats, in the meantime, should say what s happening. that is expose what is in the mill. the 800 pound gorilla that nobody is addressing is the system that is much more expensive on a per person basis, basically because of a lot of
i would disagree with kellyanne conway. be careful what you ask for, you may get it. if you cut medicaid and send it to the states, a bunch of part time legislatures like in the senator s state and my state are forced upon this thought of how do you restructure a health care system? well, with a cap on what you can spend on it, gee, careful what you ask for, you might get it. in other words what may be the long term consequence that i m concerned about as a conservative is the country realizes, gee, we have this thing called obamacare that maybe we needed to adjust, but then we ended up with this thing that leaves people without coverage or finding out they have lifetime caps. i can offer you cheap insurance if you let me cap the lifetime coverage for you or exclude