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The gentleman from ohio, jim jordan. >> our goal is simple to bring down the cost of insurance for working families and middle class families across the country. in an effort to do that, we think you have to get rid of obamacare completely. tomorrow i will introduce the bill that every single republican voted on just 15 months ago, the bill that actually repeals obamacare. our plan has always been repeal in one piece of legislation and replace in another. that replacement we talked about a few weeks ago is the bill sponsored by dr. paul in the senate and mark sanford in the house. there is thr...

From the cassidy/collins plan, enough disarray behind closed doors. so i have a bit of deja vu to covering the 2009/2010 obamacare effort. the difference here is democrats had a clear goal in mind. they wanted to cover more people health surance. it not clear what republicans are groping towards aside from getting rid of the affordable care act. >> that is the great point. what is the plan? jennifer's point about promising the moon. sean spicer said we have a mandate to provide care to more people at lower deductibles. i thought if that's the mandate, that's a tough mandate to live up to. then...

On the same page. >> that's a great point about the filibuster. there are certain things they can do in reconciliation but they can't create a new health care system through reconciliation. sara, there's the politics of this also. is there any policy consensus? you got rand paul says look, we have to come out with something, he comes out with his own bill. it's what you would expect from a let the market decide republican. it's bare bones, peel would probably lose their health insurance. but it's honest. it probably wouldn't be a political winner. >> it probably wouldn't. it would be one of th...

Parenthood in the health insurance bill" said john faso, a congressman from new york. "if you want to do it somewhere else i have no problem but i think we are creating a political minefield for ourselves, house and senate." republicans in congress are learning the same lessons their democratic counterparts learned eight years ago -- governing is hard, especially when it comes to health policy. though donald trump has managed to rewrite many rules previously governing the political universe, at least on this subject, gravity still exists. joining me sara cliff, senior policy correspondent at v...

Enough disarray behind closed doors. so i have a bit of deja vu to covering the 2009/2010 obamacare effort. the difference here is democrats had a clear goal in mind. they wanted to cover more people with health insurance. it's not clear what republicans are groping towards aside from getting rid of the affordable care act. >> that is the great point. what is the plan? jennifer's point about promising the moon. sean spicer said we have a mandate to provide care to more people at lower deductibles. i thought if that's the mandate, that's a tough mandate to live up to. then you have sara to the ...