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Thank you. senate republicans are on quite a losing streak with health care as an issue. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel is on capitol hill tonight. but what happen this time? >> to senate republican pan's to scrap obamacare have failed in the past 24 hours. the latest one, boating on a repeal plan with two years to transition, which republicans passed in 2015. >> it's pretty clear that there are not 50 republicans at the moment to vote for a replacement for obamacare. >> democrats insisted repeal without replacement would be a disaster. >> it's like if our health care system wa...

Thank you. senate republicans are on quite a losing streak with health care as an issue. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel is on capitol hill tonight. but what happen this time? >> to senate republican pan's to scrap obamacare have failed in the past 24 hours. the latest one, boating on a repeal plan with two years to transition, which republicans passed in 2015. >> it's pretty clear that there are not 50 republicans at the moment to vote for a replacement for obamacare. >> democrats insisted repeal without replacement would be a disaster. >> it's like if our health care system wa...

These bills. >> we've never addressed the fact that many of the folks who are going to become uninsured are people who will did not wat insurance. they only took it so they could avoid the tax penalties. >> people who are on medicaid today who got it under obamacare would not get it under these republican bills, that is the whole point. if you are able bodied, if you improve the insurance market, you should be able to go out there and buy a cheaper plan on your own with government help. to john's point, in his budget and the state of ohio, 43% of that money goes to medicaid compared to 14% for...

Insurance. you have this discussion about medicaid, it's an interesting one given that many doctors are no longer accepting new medicaid patients. here is what we know, obamacare is a disaster. something has to be done to change it, republicans were talking about it and it was interesting to hear him talk about how we needed to come together. there are plenty of liberal and conservative health care efforts i do agree that medicaid has to be given back to the states. we can agree on that. i wrote about this last week on foxnews.com, democrats who are up in 2018 who president trump won that stat...

Tells fox news john roberts that they're four or five votes short. paul ryan said the gop leaders are making progress on the bill but he wouldn't say when the house will vote on it. mike emanuel is live on capitol hill. >> good afternoon. many face-to-face meetings and conversations taking place trying to address the concerns of house republicans. mike pence has been a regular up here on capitol hill here in recent days trying to win over the final republican votes to pass a healthcare reform package and scrap obamacare. speaker ryan tried to re-assure his colleagues today. >> the purpose of o...