poor when what we ought to be doing is fixing the things that needed fixing with obamacare, but don t throw the baby out with the bath water. aby, let s talk about the politics of this. it looks like there are a lot of hurdles. the conservative block, you heard rand paul earlier in the show very opposed to this. they think these refundable tax credits are republican welfare, they re calling it. it looks as though a lot of democrats, if not all democrats in the senate at the very least are going to oppose it. can this pass? right. i mean, this bill very much feels like it s an orphan. it has no real constituency except for maybe gop leadership and parts of the white house. and even as a first step, i actually think that the multi-step process is in and of itself problematic for this congress because to do they have to do the first step, which is the lowest bar. maybe 50 votes. and then they have to do subsequent steps which might require 60 votes which will be even more difficult
i believe in going through the process the way it was meant to go through. we didn t write this bill in my office on christmas eve like they did in harry reid s office and jamb it through to an unsuspecting country. it goes to the budget committee the next week and the rules committee the week after that which is regular order. so, i m excited we re doing this the right way. we re doing this out in plain sight. go to read the bill.gop. what i want to tell my fellow citizens as the nightmare of obamacare is about to end, we are doing what we said we would do in this campaign which is repeal and replace this awful law that is crashing. let me say one more thing. let s not forget, obamacare is collapsing. obamacare isn t staying. if we did nothing, the law would collapse and leave everybody without affordable health care. we are doing a act of mercy by repealing this law and replacing it with patient-centered health
continuing with our politics lead we have lots to talk about with my panel so let s get right to it. charles, let me start with you. republicans unveiled the replacement plan for obamacare. you tweeted, maybe someone can convince the 9th circuit to strike down this health care proposal so the house gop has to work it from the ground up. why the opposition? well, i think it was introduced badly and i think the substance is not great. the poor introduction, it seems that the parliamentary procedures here are going to be very come plplicated. there are some things they can do with 50 votes, some things with 60 votes. because it delegates some of the executive branch they need to be involved, too. they didn t explain that. when they released this bill, they thought it was the whole thing. there s been push back. it s not going to please conservatives because it doesn t go far enough. it doesn t do what conservatives wanted either, which was to not just reset america to the status quo, bu
i do want to thank the president. i do want to thank the vice-president. i do want to thank our new secretary tom price as well. if i just listened to the president meeting with the deputy whip team. he said he was proud to support this new bill. why? because of the years of work that has gone into it. we know why we are here today, because of obamacare did three essential points. one, created exchange. we all know the history of what s happened to that. the failures, the companies pulling out, and now you have one-third of the entire country, 1022 counties with only one health care provider. created 23 co-ops, provided more than $18 billion. 18 of those collapsed. medica medicaid can t sustain itself. that s why i want to thank chairman greg walden for the work they re going through as well. third, it made government control health care, the regulations that it imposed upon
jon: this new potential fix to obamacare is asking insurers to extend deadlines allow people allowing people to sign up in the new year. meanwhile, republicans are hoping to take advantage of the rocky obamacare rollout in the 2014 midterm elections. let s talk about it with david hawkings, senior editor at roll call. debbie wasserman-schultz who heads the democratic national committee be as well as harry reid, the top democrat in the u.s. senate, both say that obama care is going to be a winner for democrats next year when people go to the polls. are they right? well, it s 11 months away, so, i mean, it s one of the oldest cliches in politics that, you know, a year is a lifetime in politics, it s several lifetimes in politics. i m not sure we know just yet. one thing we do know is that the first couple of months have been, you know, i think all