they took it from us. they expect us to live on $1,200 a month. we both do get medicare, which is decent, but doesn't cover all of my bills. my wife is in a wheelchair, i broke my back in three spots. i believe the obama administration needs to be pulled and i believe this new administration would have been a little better and might have opened up the doors for everybody. if they had only given it a chance. i think the democrats and the republicans need to work together and need to get their butts off the steering wheel and get together. host: savannah calling from massachusetts. what is your take on the health care situation? wondering take is i'm

why democrats and republicans aren't working together to consider other options like universal health care. i agree that there are flaws in people . and a lot of who can't afford health insurance, but nonetheless need health care are being helped by the a.c.a. but i do agree it's not right that a 50-year-old man should have to purchase birth control that he does not need. t we're supposed to be the united states of america. every single person in america is going to need a health procedure or care of some kind and we can't always guarantee that we are going to be able to afor that cost by ourselves. so whether by bull guarding our

funds, why aren't we making a air tax system that will cover everybody? host: meeting at this hour, the chairs of the number of the house committees, the budget committee, ways and means committee and energy and commerce. what comes out of that meeting out of this last failed attempt to pass. we will bring you updates. taking your phone calls and what do you think the republicans unable to bring their repeal and replace measure to the floor. we have a republican caller on the line. caller: i was a big supporter of donald trump. and i still am. i think he needs to take the lead here and really -- and i

hate to say it, these idiots in washington, both republican and the democrat party, they don't want to do anything for the people to help the people, just help themselves, lobbyists and special interests and need to take money out of health insurance and that's where the biggest problem. there is people dying because all a for-profit system. there are countries around the world that offer health care for free. there is no reason and they have less money than we do. just to give you an idea, not that long ago, 2.3 trillion ery year go missing from the pentagon. defense spending accounted for. people. waste and give

ey have more than enough host: mcconnell said i share their disappointment that this effort came up short. abby, what are your thoughts? caller: i'm really disappointed that they didn't get it. i'm glad that it was put off. i just really wanted to see trump have a big slap in the face today. payer.upporter of single

and i just don't understand -- i'm disabled and i'm scared, even though i live in new york which is better than living in west virginia for people facing -- who have disabilities. i have been covered on medicare and now i may have have to switch over medicaid and feels like i'm -- with the direction of this administration, i'm in a wheelchair, being pushed over a cliff. it's frightening, incredibly frightening and i'm encouraged by the mobilization that has happened across the country and seems to be in the face of overwhelming odds with all three branches of government, especially with this scaryness

of the supreme court heading towards republican rule, that the people at home -- even in red states, were able to mobilize and push their representatives. that was encouraging. but it's hard to stay optimistic. and i'm glad they were put off stood. it doesn't feel like it's permanently sheffield at all. host: the comments from house speaker paul ryan saying we are going to live with the affordable care act for the oreseeable future. hoflte host call from rome, georgia, on the republican loin.

caller: i would like to ask the democrats and the republicans to get together and come up with a decent health care plan for all. host: what would that be, lee? got?r: the plan they what do they have? host: lawmakers have? caller: and make them take the same health plan that they give o the american people. host: thanks for the call. shelbyville, kentucky. ronald on the democrats' line. caller: i just want to tell you the publicans saying

democrats won't work with the republicans and whole time obama was in, they worked against him and mitch mcconnell said they were going to make him a one-time president. they should work together. but they realize that the democrats have some good ideas, too. host: thanks for the call. a poll that is out just yesterday. u.s. voters opposing the g.o.p. health care plan 3-1. big opposition to cuts to medicaid and also to planned parenthood and read it on their website. josh is on the line, clift ton, virginia. josh, your thoughts. caller: thanks for taking my call. i wanted to say that for seven

years they had a better alternative to obamacare and from what i saw when they were taking questions of ryan, they didn't ask him questions about where was your great plan and came up with it quickly in the past few months. they don't know how to govern is what i saw today. and just going to -- there isn't any plan and everything may be a disaster going forward because he even said it today, they are an opposition party and didn't do anything and don't have to make anything, how are they supposed to govern if they don't know how to govern. host: tweet here, bill cassidy on the senate side, he has a suggestion. susan collins of maine.

host: and ed markey. host: taking your calls and getting your opinion and feedback and hearing about your situation. deborah on the loin in indianapolis, indiana. hat are your thoughts? caller: the republicans have had more than seven years to come up with a plan. they opposed president obama's plan. they had no plan of their own then. and here we are seven years later and still have no plan. but they want to blame the democrats. they want to blame president obama. they need to look in the mirror, as michael jackson said, the man in the mirror.

they need to look at the man in the mirror and realize this falls on them. they had more than enough time to come up with some type plan and they came up with nothing. so i'm glad that it failed. i hope president trump takes a look at himself and realizes just because you can run a corporation doesn't mean you can run a nation. these are two totally different entities that must be handled in separate manners. host: houston, texas, republican line. and we have lynn. caller: hi. thanks for taking my call today. i am a republican and i'm actually on medicare and i'm forced into taking medicare because there is no alternative to that plan and unless it is

expensive and i hate putting this burden on my children and grandchildren, but be that as it may and here we are talking about another gigantic entitlement program. i'm glad the thing failed today and don't need more people on medicaid. we don't need universal health care. i help hear people talking about universal health care for all. that is a socialist program. if you like the v.a. is run, you will love universal health care and that's not what this count ti is all about. and i'm personally glad it failed and we can do better. maaiinet's

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constituents who make today possible. st want to earn their tru and maintain their trust all the way through november 2018. democrats speaking earlier today after house republicans canceled the vote on the health care repeal and replacement measure. we are taking your phone calls. we will get right of frank here in rowland heights, california. caller: thanks for taking my call. host: go ahead. caller: i've been watching for the past few weeks, months, everything going on with the election. i'm a young person, only 29 in southern california, and i believe we should have health care. for notdn't be fined having health care, but we should be paying outrageous costs either.

my understanding from watching the past few weeks, it seems like money is a big issue. for don't want to pay it. money is a test money is behind everything in this world. -- money is behind everything this world. in order to pay for health care, i believe, fda should reschedule cannabis as a schedule 2 drug and tax cannabis nationwide and use that money to help pay for .ealth care for the people not only will industrial hemp help many industries if the fda would stop ignoring semi--- so many studies done by institutions showing the benefits of cannabis. it is a benefit that can help the american public. that a driving industry they could use tax money for to

pay for some of this health care. because that seems like the big issues, money. from theaxes generated cannabis would be in the billions. there would be no mass incarcerations. people would be out of jails. create another revenue for this health care. that seems to be the big issue. i just want to say thank you for taking my call. i enjoy watching the show. host: thanks, frank. republican line, hempstead, new york, linda, go ahead. caller: with regards to the non-passage today, i would say this. the affordable care act itself is still my fully implemented. i think that speaker ryan should get a little bit of -- here. the affordable care act, when it was fast come i think it was

amended shortly after it was passed, and it has been supplemented by i think thousands of pages of regulations. stillaid, i think it has provisions that have not it. implement by the way, while it was being rolled out, there were points in time where i believe one branch .f government put a hold on to say it should be repealed in one fell swoop is a reach. the fact that it did not happen today, a little consideration should be given there. in simulates and insinuatesmake -- insthe facts so many -- inuates and affects so many

players. it is an industry. essentially implemented. that all in one instant it should go away, it's not fair. i was no fan of obamacare. the size of it is a monstrosity. i'm not sure that what was in what would be- helpful, for each person that , theretory for obamacare is one equally compelling story against it. i think it's not helpful to the american public, the citizenry, and it's not their fault. there is a lot of non-transparency in the health care debate. we know some of the big players, the government -- there's always a lot of finger-pointing at the drug industry or the hospital

systems and the insurers. but there's a lot of other players. actually, the health care system piecesstem and the interact in such complex ways. yes, the government is a huge player, probably the biggest player at this point. which is why the other pieces are constantly angling through their lobbyists to get a piece said, thetem, as you hospital systems, the insurers. host: let's take a look at what president trump said earlier today after the cancellation of the vote. here he is. trump: thank you very much.

we were very close. it was a very tight margin. we had no democrat support. we had no rose from the democrats. they weren't going to give us a civil vote. so it is a very difficult thing to do. i have been saying for the last year and a half that the best thing we can do politically speaking is let obamacare explode. it is exploding right now. many states have big problems. almost all states have big problems. i was in tennessee the other day and they have lost their state in terms of and ensure -- insurer. they have no insurer. i was in kentucky and they have a similar problem. so obamacare is exploding. with no democrat support, we couldn't quite get there. we were a small number of votes short getting our bill passed. people don't realize how good

our bill was because they were looted -- they were viewing phase one. phase three, it became a great ability or premiums would have gone down and it would have been very safe and very strong. that's ok. we were very close. i think what will happen is obamacare, unfortunately, will explode. we will have a very bad year. last year, you had over 100% increases in various places. arizona, i understand it is going up very rapidly again, like it did last year. last year, it was 116%. 50%, 60%, 70 percent it averaged, whatever it is, very high. and this year should be worse for obamacare. what would be really good, with no democrat support, if they got together with us and got a real

health care bill. i would be open to it. and i think that will happen. i think the losers are nancy pelosi and chuck schumer, because now they own obamacare. they 100% own it. this is not a republican health care. this is not anything but a democrat health care. and they have obamacare for a little while longer, until it seizes -- it ceases to exist, which it will at some point in the future. just remember, this is not our bill. this is there a bell. if they all become civilized and get together and try to work out a great health care bill for the people of this country, we are open to it. we are totally open to it. i want to thank the republican party. i want to thank paul ryan. he worked very, very hard. pence, right mike here, our vice president.

everybody worked hard. i worked as a team player and would have loved to have seen it passed. think it was a speech i made are very few where i didn't mention that perhaps the best thing that could have been his executive happened today because we will end up with a truly great health care bill in the future after this mess known as obamacare explodes. so i want to thank everybody for being here. it will go very smoothly. it was certainly an interesting period of time. we all learned a lot. we learned a lot about loyalty. we learned about the vote getting process. we learned about some very archaic rules in obviously both the senate and in the house. so it's been, certainly for me, and interesting experience. i think it's going to be an experience that leads to an even better health care plan. so thank you all very much and i will see you soon.

>> is it your intention to go for tax reform? >> we are going right now for tax reform, which we could have done earlier, but this really have -- really would have worked out better if we could have had some democrats are poor. remember, we had no democrat support. to tax reform.go i like speaker ryan. he worked very hard. in a lot of factions. there's been a long history -- there's been a lot of factions. there's been a long history. i've had a great relationship with the republican party. it seems like both sides like trump and that's good. you see that more clearly than anybody. i'm not going to speak badly about anybody with a party. but certainly, there is a big history. i think paul worked so hard. i think he will probably start

going very, very strongly for the big tax cuts and tax reform. that will be next. >> [indiscernible] let obamacare explode? >> there's not much you can do about it. bad things are going to happen to obamacare. there's not much you can do to help it. i've been saying that for a year and a half. it's not sustainable. the insurance companies are leaving one by one, as quickly as you can leave. and you have states in some cases who soon will not be covered.