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Let me say, i give the president a lot of credit. so many people in washington run from a fire. he runs to it. he didn't have to tackle this issue. he could have put this on the back burner. it is like he says, obamacare has been a disaster. i think he came into washington with the very best of intentions here and he thought the house republicans, which have been studying this issue, dealing with it for many years, would have a really good proposal. i was shocked, actually, when i saw that they actually came out with a plan that they didn't get the buy-in from their own members, the house repu...

Are a bit softer. the things that they found where they think there's potential are people think that he's gone too far on certain things, and that he's been distracted by side issues. there are two of the weaker things. >> i think there are people out there who thinks that we're awful, we're in the media, quit asking the same question. >> i have no doubt. >> quit asking the same question, you people in washington don't get it, don't understand it. >> the good parts was like he kept his promises, he, you know, national strength. >> i got to interrupt you because house republicans just got out ...

Back in charge of their health care decisions, lowering the cost of health care. and finally, stabilizing a marketplace that is collapsing under the failed weight of obamacare. >> what an important time to be here. a time to create a better health care future for every person in america. we just had marathon markups as mentioned and the energy and commerce committees, ways & means committees, our american health care act is moving through the budget committee this week. we've got a cbo score that confirms what we've been saying all along. that our plan is going to lower premiums. reduce the fe...

And so there are a lot of republicans who might be saying i'm against this because it's big government, but they're actually also against it because a lot of their people are going to lose coverage. second problem is it flies totally in the face of president trump's own promises. he kept saying over and over again, i'm not going to cut medicaid and medicaid gets cut by $880 billion. i'm going to cover everybody. this bill clearly increases the number of uninsured. last problem is a lot of governors don't like it because those medicaid cuts, they're going to have to deal with down the road. >> ...

State. medicaid is already under siege. under the house bill, you can still enroll people up through 20 19 2019. i don't know why we'd want to add more people to a broken program called medicaid. >> what do we do with the people who need health care who don't have money? >> put them on medicaid. >> how do we pay is the next question? >> you need to make it more efficient. the federal government will contribute. 50% from the federal government. 50% -- >> not 90-10. >> not 90-10. medicare and medicaid by 2042 will take the revenue in taxes to run the government because the baby boomers are about...