elements of obamacare, and they don t seem to know that. and in that sense, i find that the arguments coming at it from the right side in the senate are almost all self-contradictory. it s so ironic to see what they ve been doing, and i ve been saying for the last couple of weeks, particularly the conservatives have done a really good job diagnosing some of the problems with the affordable care act, particularly the people who earn too much money to get subsidies but who buy their own insurance. they re really getting hammered. they re paying way too much, and yet nothing in any of these bills would do almost anything to help those people. so, you know, they re coming up with sort of the right problems. they re asking the right questions, and they re not quite giving the right answers to them. i should also point out that, yes, while we re sort of pronouncing this bill dead, it s been pronounced dead several times before. the health reporters who have been covering it keep calling it
healthcare isn t dead yet and we haven t seen democrats celebrating the way pelosi did early on. i think that they re is still fear it s not gone. the zombie bill will roar back to life. it did. the house bill looked like a zombie and then it was eating brains again. it came back to life. brains and slime, kids. we will have you. jonathan, thank you for sticking around today. and we have even more action overseas because the president is gearing up for g20, russia and talks in the middle east all on his agenda. what do we know and what does the u.s. need? next. you re gonna have dizziness, nausea, and sweaty eyelids. and in certain cases chronic flatulence.
government shutdown, but i think on this, you ve got, first of all, this is a zombie bill. this is not going to become law. it doea lot of dage to millions and millions of people but it s going to go to the senate. if it changes at all, then the house is going to have to take it up again. there s not a lot of room for error there, but republicans own this. even the folks who voted against it, look, steve, i was in the house for five or six years. i was there when we passed the affordable care act and a lot of democrats who voted against it to try to protect themselves actually ended up losing. so, you know, this is going to brand the party and i think it s just a historic vote for them because, you know, they essentially voted to, you know, take away health care from 24 million people, to gut medicaid, raise premiums on seniors. those are things they re going to have to respond to over the course of the next year and a half. michael steele, what did you make of the scene in the rose
still, they are not where democrats believed and said, six, seven years ago they would be once it was implemented. i got to think part of that is just you keep having headlines like we got this week out of iowa, you got the biggest insurer in that state moving out. you ve had stories like that around the country. you had the premium spikes just before last november s election. i ve wondered how big an impact we talked so much about comey, i wonder how much effect the premium spikes had, the news that had before the election. republicans here are saying, look, yeah, democrats are going to take a lot of shots at us, our plan, they re going to find the weaknesses in it but got to still answer for obamacare. well, i think the premium spikes did hurt at the end of the campaign, but let me just say this, that what the republicans just passed is deeply unpopular. we know that it s got about a 17% favorable rating and these republicans ultimately, you know, i don t think this bill that the
it is a zombie bill. no one did anything about it, they didn t reauthorize it or overhaul it. the outdated provisions of this out of touch bill are beginning to strangle the education system. 100% of school districts need to meet the mandate or will they lose money. we ve known for years they will not hit those targets. that means they will lose tons of money. we needed to do some, but, you know, congress. the obama administration began giving out waivers, telling almost 40 states they re letting them out of no child left behind as long as they agree to meet other quality targets. today they took another step. after rejecting california s request for a waiver, they said yes to eight individual school districts in california.