nothing to replace it. donald trump promised i think in 60 minutes interview, nothing would be repealed, people not worry, until there was something to replace it with. his vice president is saying something totally different. this shouldn t be about politics. it s what should be happening. that s not a joke. i think that laugh is demonstrative of the problem we have. what should be happening is republicans and democrats should be listening to americans, find out what works and what doesn t and together write a plan to fix it. but all we re seeing is pivots to don t own it. people are sick and they need care. if this election was a mandate on whether or not obamacare works, donald trump did win this election. but he won the election, which pains me to say, but it is a fact i did it so leave it
pains me to say, but it is a fact. i will say we will repeal obamacare and replace it. now he said we will repeal it and hang on rk, there will be something maybe tomorrow. do they need to replace it immediately? i would think they should as soon as possible. these are smart people. surely they have been talking about this for months and months. they have been talking about this for years. why can t we hear what they talked about? the problem is that obamacare get pence off of the capitol hill. obamacare is based on a republican why idea. that was romney care.
democrats ought to start calling it trump care. they want to repeal it and try to hang it on us. not going to happen. it s their responsibility. plain and simple. cutting health care wouldn t make america great again. it would make america sick again and lead to chaos. reporter: at virtually the same time republicans girding for the epic fight led by vice president-elect mike pence, a meeting described by attendees as more pep rally than policy discussion. the promises of obamacare have all been proven to be false. if you like your doctor, you can keep it. not true. if you like your health insurance, you can keep it. not true. this law has failed. americans are struggling. reporter: the president-elect also jumping into the debate in a series of tweets seeming to warn republicans not to work too closely with democrats. dems owned the obamacare
alone to psi i m going to repeal obamacare and replace it. now he s saying we re going to repeal it. hang on, there will be something maybe tomorrow. there s nothing. would you agree they have to have something to replace it with immediately? i think they should make it as quickly as possible. what happens in those three days if you get sick? right, you don t want that to happen here. these are smart people. surely they have been talking about this for months and months. i think they ve been talking about this for years. why can t we hear what they ve talked about? is problem is not donald trump. then get pence off capitol hill. the problem for republicans is that the obamacare is actually based on a republican idea. the idea they would have come up with probably is what obamacare that was romney care. it came out of the heritage foundation and that used to be a republican idea. the only other ideas i ve seen
in fact, their plan was obamacare. it s worth mentioning again and again that obamacare was the slightly more conservative version of romney care, a republican, which was a slightly more conservative version of something richard nixon proposed. so the only plan the republicans have ever had is obamacare. which is why they can t think of an alternative. also there s that issue of once you say we re going to take care of the people with preexisting conditions, there s a giant amount of intervention. everything occurs once you do that. right, because it s, the phrase they use is the three-legged stool. if you re going to let anybody buy health insurance who has a preexisting condition, to get more people into the insurance pool you have to have a mandate, which the republicans suddenly hate, but which is a concept invented by the conservatives at the heritage foundation and endorsed by president nixon and endorsed by governor romney.