military, crime and drugs. the only place where there s been any action actually in congress is really on health care. so what s taken so long getting these other aspects introduced? or was it an overpromise? well, no, it wasn t an overpromise. remember, this president has already signed more bills in the first 100 days than any president since harry truman. i mean he s literally 13 different pieces of legislation that have rolled back job killing regulations from the obama administration signed into law. he s taken executive okay, but we re not on health care, we re not on tax reform. we have i m talking the big signature pieces of legislation. but he signed over 30 different executive orders on virtually every one of those topics that you just referred to. and we re working with the congress. i think health care reform, repealing, replacing obamacare, is just around the corner. because this president is driving relentlessly toward an agenda to make america great again. i go
that were sold in the state. which is an important part of how it work. it is. but what was important is after an individual s expenses reached a certain amount, the high-risk pool picked that up. and it did work well for two years. it had a $5 million surplus when it ended. but the affordable care act ended it. would you be able to support something like that? it s all in the details because what s being proposed doesn t have the subsidy, for example, that made the maine high-risk pool successful and there are a lot of people in maine that argue that there were limitations, that a lot of the coverages were dropped and that expenses for older people over 60, for example, went way up. so it is certainly we got to look for what happened in the states. it s worth looking at. but i don t think it is a panacea and i don t think it necessarily is an easy answer to the dilemma of pre-existing conditions. i can t let you go without asking about your governor, paula page, and the
and president trump, from the first day of this administration, has been working every single day to keep that promise to the american people. and i have to tell you, the legislative process is often slow. nobody knows it better than you. and yourself. you were a member of congress. what s the old saying? if you like sausage, don t go where they make it. we re making law here and we re unmaking one of the worst pieces of legislation in modern american history. and on this point, congress obviously wasn t ready to begin the process of repealing obamacare little more than a month ago. but i think we re close, and it is owing to the fact that you re seeing members of congress coming together to repeal the onerous taxes and penalties that people pay if they don t have insurance in obamacare, to expand health savings accounts, to give governors like my friend john kasich the ability all-new flexibility to improve medicaid for their most vulnerable citizens. but we re also keeping our
i m just telling you what politically works. i don t even want to answer that question. being awful works sometimes. but i think if the democrats said i ll take your money and build a bridge, i ll work with you on trade because i m as protectionist as you are, i think what the democrats are missing is that some of trump s stuff is their stuff. exactly. yeah. but the republicans played that game and it worked for them. i mean there was a lot of right, but obama s stuff wasn t our stuff. why hasn t pelosi said i ve got a plan to fix obamacare? i m going to break the rule, i m going to go to the floor and break the rule, get control of the schedule and we re going o have a vote on that. go out there and be aggressive. that s what reagan did, break the rule, get the other side on the vote. i think the democrats could start winning a lot of issues if they d start challenging the leadership. i think it is very possible they don t need to do that. susan collins said this.
everything. and just sitting there, allowing anti-obama unite the party worked. i disagree. obamacare is what worked. obamacare so repealing obamacare will work for the democrats too? i don t think so. but i done think it was that they were doing nothing and they woke up and suddenly had great successes. i think a grassroots sort of element of republicans and libertarians went out in opposition to obamacare. what s happening now? what do you see with this energy on the left? because you are right, democrats haven t offered anything but the energy is there. but it is all energy and it is not directed towards anything. it is exactly what chris said, it s all about name calling. it s not about standing for anything. at the end of the day if the party doesn t stand for something they don t get elected. by the way, you can sit here and say, you know, mitch mcconnell, that s a brilliant idea. your number one objective is to get rid of obama. why should anyone in the middle of r