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>> whats fun about this is its easy to read. its like youre watching a game where its easy to read the play. in a way, when we look at it, it doesnt really matter what the subject. its just really easy to read the play. >> eventually republicans are going to do republican things. theyre going to pass a health care bill that includes state flexibility. and mo brooks should have embraced that and said im a republican, and i want state flexibility. boehner was the champion at setting the deadline a...

So its really appalling. >> congressman jolly, david, i cant imagine -- i mean i saw a tweet today that was very funny about the distance between what they were hearing from the white house, a reporter was saying, which is desperate, desperate for a win. >> right. >> and the house members who actually would have to whip the votes and get this thing passed, and they were pretty skeptical. >> look, chris, it is remarkable how hard this white house works to really screw things up, okay? at some poi...

Ignorance and incompetence. ignorance when he was asked a question about the bill and all he could say was better, better, better. why didnt he say were working on state flexibility? >> thats a good point. >> but more importantly incompetence. >> listen -- >> thats not incredibly won ki to say state flexibility. >> were looking at a government shutdown next week. i have lived through dozens of them as a member, as a staffer. what you do in the week before a shut dourn, you try to remove contenti...

Will not be taken out of the law because you cant get there on the reconciliation bill. what you can do is allow greater state flexibility on some of those provisions. the fact is this. we have to come to this very basic understanding as a party, do we want to replace obamacare? if we do, it has to be a vehicle that can get through both the house and the senate. the second thing we have to decide as all americans is do we think centralizing our health care bureaucracy and decisions has made it b...

If you roll that back, which is what this bill does, then youre going to lose that benefit and that opioid crisis will continue and accelerate across the country. i mean, state flexibility is great but if you take out $900 billion from the medicaid program and basically block it, thats devastation. >> if you were writing the national health insurance plan, what would it look like? >> well, i think we could build on what we have now. i think its more complex than it needs to be but it was what we...

Flexibility to be able to reform medicaid. will help americans to be able to purchase health insurance, but the cost of health insurance will go down. and so, were looking forward, as i told leaders in the senate today as im meeting with members of congress this afternoon, we really do believe this is a historic opportunity to repeal the failed policies of obamacare. and replace it with the kind of reforms thatll lower the cost of health insurance, even while we ensure that the most vulnerable h...

Benefit for buying health coverage. those folks that are out there in the individual small group market know tax benefit and thats what this plan would do. state flexibility its incredibly important that we allow the states to be the ones that are defining what health coverage, have the flexibility in the medicaid program to be able to respond to their vulnerable population. lawsuit abuse, the president mentioned and its incredibly important the practice of defensive medicine wastes billions of ...

Access to better coverage through medicaid and greater state flexibility. >> where are conservatives so opposed? >> i think we are early in the legislative process. and the president has made it clear we are open to ways to improve the bill but we believe the american health care act is the right framework for replacing obamacare. in the days ahead the president and i look forward to making that point the members of congress and the people of america. >> thank you, i appreciate it. of course the...

Word. i shouldnt have done that. im good at branding. youre going to see them now come out obstruct and resist. all right. well, at least i can take credit for it, and they work with us. we are going to hopefully work with the democrats because ultimately were all people tt love this country and we want to dot right thing, including reforms like expanded health care savings accounts, state flexibility, and the ability to purchase across state lines. the state lines are so important for competiti...

They have a sign sist, resist. they want to resist everything, including cabinet members. they have many cabinet members that havent been approved yet. people that are extraordinary, all of whom are going to be approved but they just take forever. its called obstruct and resist. i hope i didnt give them a new phrase because their rephrase is resist. i think i just gave them another word. i shouldnt have done that. im going to brand it. youre going to see them now come out and "obstruct and resis...