they address the actual issues in our healthcare system. i've mentioned they are nonideological and exactly the kind of legislation we can work on together. if our intent is to make things better, this is something we can come together on, all three of these proposals. they address the actual issues that we have and should be an immediate thing that we can do together. the republican approachepublica decimating medicaid to give a tax break to the wealthy doesn't solve any of the problems republicans claim to be so worried about the effect high premiums, peer counties, high deductibles..o in fact, most reports make them worse. the cbo said that under each a version of the republican plan premiums would go up on many americans and deductibles would go up and there would be even more bare counties in today. tens of millions would lose insurance. repealing the healthcare lot without any replacement is even worse. it would cause our healthcare system to implode, creating chaos. millions more would lose their homes and for millions more than that

ible for states, for better or worse, is responsible for the healthcare of the country, for the a healthcare of americans who voted for him and for americans who voted against him. he took an oath to faithfully execute the laws of this country, not just the ones he likes. there is no docking responsibility as president. the buck stops with you, president trump. if the procedural votes feel next week, i sincerely hope that my republican friends here in congress reject the premise of the president to let our healthcare system collapsed and hurt millions. instead, i hope they work with us in the areas i mentionedfi among many others do what is right for the american people. >> the most important three words are the first three, we the people.ti the mission statement for our nation laid out in a supersized font so that no one could forget what this document, our constitution, is all about. our founders didn't start out by saying we the privileged. they didn't call for a document form of government for we the powerful. indeed, they wanted to make clear that the structure of the government that th

debate on to proceed to on the healthcare legislation. in the senate today, we'll see senator john mccain of arizona, his first ime back on capitol hill since announcing that he had been diagnosed with brain cancer. night his tweet last saying that i look forward to returning to the senate tomorrow o continue work on the healthcare reform and defense bill and russian sanctions. senator john mccain last night. here is headline in today's "u.s.a. today." mccain gives obamacare a boost, ailing senators is returning for we'll look for him on capitol hill today. we're asking for your message to comes to when it healthcare. the phone lines are yours, 202-748-8000. republicans, 202-748-8001. .ndependents, 202-748-8002 rick up first, maryland, line democrats. rick, go ahead. caller: yes, good morning. my question is, the people who for donald trump, would they vote for him if they knew andould take their medicare their healthcare away from them? and he would act like he's now?g also, john mccain is voting to healthcare also, you guys make him sou

it's time to start over on healthcare. abandon the idea of cutting medicaid to give a tax break to the wealthy, abandoned this new repeal in run and use the regular order to arrive at a result acceptable to people all along the political spectrum, as a leader mcconnell once said. i daresay it would create a much better resultor

the house healthcare reform version was solid. it wasn't perfect. it did all the things that we can review the tape on it. but i think it gutted obama care and got us on the path to market-driven patient centered care. >> host: just come back to something, this could be the demise of leadership in the house and senate, if the healthcare reform effort doesn't move forward, do you think the leadership in the house and senate are in trouble? >> guest: on thing, republicans and leadership, that is, our majority is in jeopardy.r forget whether mitch mcconnell is doing a good job leading in the senate or not, i'm saying,e we have midterm elections, and history is not kind to the midterm elections or new president. n the party of the new president.t some 32 on average seats that we loose on the house we have a 24 seat majority. so, we have to stave off and go against the historical logs here. we can beat them, but we have to deliver results. we have to deliver on ournot a i promises. there wasn't a bigger proble pr, the last election cycle and appealinrepe

healthcare plan. so as we are looking at judgment on that plan, to not take my word for it, take that medical associations word for, take the hospital associations word for it, aarp's were for. get the disabled children's advocacy groups word for it. b this is not a pass. but we are big enough people in good enough leaders that we could forge a path forward if we just found the will to do it. with that mr. president, i yield the floor. >> thank you. about >> i wanted to say few words about the new republican healthcare plan that was just announced a few hours ago. and while there are some modest matter is, this plan remains a disaster. it remains in embarrassment. i think the indication that it is in embarrassment is thef legislation that would impact about one sixth of the american economy about $1 trillion so here legislation because his health care virtually everybody there has not been one public hearing on this legislation. we it is opened in behind closed doors. i honestly no matter what your vi

>> let me ask you a couple of questions about healthcare. they said a couple of times in the remarks a little while ago that at this point he'll just let obamacare fail. why is it acceptable policy to let obamacare fail? >> i think in large part, look, democrats have refused to join in fixing the healthcare problems that have plagued our healthcare system, specifically in large part due to obamacare. obamacare's failures. that sort of i think behavior is simply unacceptable. and hopefully with the collapse of the program that they put in place they will be more willing to come to the table and clean up the mess president. >> another comment about the timing going forward. the president said, quote, something will happen and it will be good. it may not be as quick as we hoped but it is going to happen. he also started talking about 2018 and the need for more republicans to get elected. i guess in the short term, is it realistic for some sort of healthcare agreement to happen before the august recess, even, as the administration and republican

and in other healthcare, other healthcare spending increases it goes to 55 percent or so. it's confirming something joe mentioned where the debate over aca and not things like medicare, if you look closely at the numbers, aca expansions, their causing growth and spending of about eight percent, eight percent of all the growth in spending whereas medicare's got 38 percent so it's maybe 1/5 the size and if you take medicaid before we had the aca, that's got about 10 percent so it gives you a relative standing of how all these issues stack up and how medicare is dominating the growth in federal spending. this slide shows you medicare plus coastal security, the second bar there is social security medicare and other health and you can see the total increase in spending their, this is updated numbers because i had some new cbo numbers, thetotal growth in spending 2017 to 27 , it bumped up a year, 10 years from now about $1 trillion more we are supposed to spend on these programs and that's in excess of the additional revenues we are expected to get so after we spend all this rev

healthcare bill in the senate. and he said he wants to force a deal by letting obamacare go belly-up. >> president trump: i've been saying that for a long time, let obamacare fail. it will be a lot easier. and i think we're probably in that position where we let obamacare fail. we're not going to own it, i'm not going to own it, i tell the republicans are not going to own it. >> shepard: politically republicans do own it, voters gave them control of washington. it was central promise of the republican campaign. for eight years they told constituents and voters give us control and we will repeal and replace obamacare. fox's brit hume explains this way. he writes on twitter, what enshrines obamacare is leaving it fully in place despite control of the house, the senate, and the white house. the g.o.p. now owns it. this bitter republican failure happened after two plb an senators announced last night they would vote against bringing the bill to the senate floor for debate. mike lee of utah and jerry moran of kansas. a

healthcare plan. so as we are looking at judgment on that plan, to not take my word for it, take that medical associations word for, take the hospital associations word for it, aarp's were for. get the disabled children's advocacy groups word for it. b this is not a pass. but we are big enough people in good enough leaders that we cod

i want my healthcare to be extraordinary. and the only way that can happen is if you have innovation. and if you have a free market and companies and doctors competing. i know that's a dirty concept to statists who want to control every aspect of our lives. but when you move to a one side fits tall ordinary adequate program, that's when people die. british patients and the nhs system have a 45% more likely chance of dying than patients in the u.s. who are fortunate enough to be subjected to the dying remnants of a free market system. >> point number one, people forget before the affordable care act, the healthcare system was the wild wild west. kennedy: it wasn't. it was based on the entire healthcare system and medical con grom rats based on medicare in this country. >> think about the family with a maximum cap on their health insurance and had a prenatal child. the care for that child could have been $750,000. which means the family only had a quarter million to spend on the family's healthcare. kennedy: let's say the aca f

healthcare bill one, two, healthcare bill in space, healthcare bill versus predator, the one where thelost because of pre-existing conditions. it was ovarian cysts. yeah. oh, you thought predator was man? oh, oh. wake up, people! you've got crists on your wenis. yeah, that's right. the reason ropes had trouble repealing obamacare is senate couldn't agree on how to replace it. some wouldn't vote for a bill that cut medicaid too much, some wouldn't vote for any bill that left any obamacare in place, some wouldn't vote for it because it was printed in comic sanz, wasn't professional. then mcconnell looked like he was smoking weed -- you can't vote for a bill if you don't vote for a bill. >> it's unclear what the bill will look like and whether the g.o.p. can muster votes to pass it. >> now what. >> that's the question. >> what they voted on is whether to start the debate. >> it was only a vote to begin debate on a healthcare bill and just barely passed. >> sometime tonight or early hours of friday, they will have a final resolution pass or fail. >> trevor: so the new g.o.p. plan is to rei

this is bigger than healthcare. we need to get to this tax bill, this tax bill is the final chapter in getting this economy going. >> . >> love, senator purdue is what he's saying is correct. we had the opportunity to get back on a regular basis over the summer time. we've been two copies as we called it in south dakota, some people called them townhall. we on the programs where we do our parades, powwows in south dakota. we one message we get time again is they sent us to fix things. they didn't send us your status will continue on.and portable way to do that is we actually get together and you get things done. we're finding that this senate schedule is such that when you have the delays that are being imposed right now. it is the democrats prerogative to delay, they can do that. that's their right. but that means then that we've got to do as the majority what we think is right and that is to get our job done as well. and not only tax reform that we have to address, we've got a budget that's got to be done. none of

it's time to start over on healthcare. abandon the idea of cutting medicaid to give a tax break to the wealthy, abandoned this new repeal in run and use the regular order to arrive at a result acceptable to people all along the political spectrum, as a leader mcconnell once said. i daresay it would create a much better result for the american people as well. thank you, mr. president. i yield the floor. mr. prince president, the majority leader says he will move forward this week with about on a straight repeal of the affordable care act in its entirety. i don't believe that a majority of senators are willing to support a reckless leap in the dark but that both would mean. it's a vote that would end protections for people with pre-existing conditions and would take health coverage away from tens of millions of americans, tens of thousands in new hampshire. it would terminate the medicaid expansion that has been critical to siding the opioid epidemic in my state in so many states across the country. according to the nonparti

but the senate healthcare bill does not repeal obamacare. it defunds the affordable care act, leaving its regulations and structure in place. kristin fisher live at the white house on the top story this hour. kristin. >> shep, what the white house wants is something, anything that president trump can sign so he can say that he was able to keep his campaign promise to get rid of obamacare. he's been pressuring senate republicans relentlessly on twitter. he did so again when he made the speech on the u.s.s. ford saturday down in norfolk. he told everyone listening to call their congressman, call their senators and put pressure on them. he will likely ramp up the pressure even more when he speaks inside the white house in just about 15 minutes. listen to what the white house budget director said. >> i wouldn't want to go home without followed through on my biggest promise. what do you tell people, even if somebody else killed it, how do you defend your party as a republican by saying thanks for giving us the house, the senate but we didn't foll

you think a break is bad to pass senate healthcare. i think a break to go home for the 4th of july and let the republican senators get lit up by their constituents is a great thing. they will come back and think my god, i have got to get something done on healthcare because my constituents are livid. it's not just republican senators. where are the american republicans and independents crushed by healthcare, why they sit on the sidelines doing nothing. they should be part of the solution. try to get a market system to work in healthcare so republicans and democrats won't be blipped over the 4th of july. kennedy: it's not a market system it's a medicaid system and tax subsidy system. it has the same structures and pill lars that obamacare -- and pillars obamacare had. the senate version is less popular than the house version. it's pretty incredible. let's say that the senate bill either fails to make it through the cincinnati senate or gets to you and your party people in the house and it dies there. what happens to tax reform if health

obamacare has broken our healthcare system. it is collapsing. it is gone, and now it's up to us to get great healthcare for the american people. we must repeal and replace obamacare now. thank you, god bless you, god bless the united states of america. thank you very much. [applause] [inaudible conversations]

calling about healthcare. after 63 years of living, if you problems and ut secure problems, follow the money. the healthcare system, everybody fighting over cost, what they need to do is at the cost and see how much profits these are aceutical companies making and how much profit the c.e.o.s are getting for bonuses hospitals and rising healthcare cost to where none of us can afford it anymore. also, you can throw the insurance companies in there, cahoots y are in together. host: schenectady, new york, sergio, an independent. good morning. caller: yes, good morning, c-span, thank you for taking my call. comment. the republicans are always out there talking about resisting socialized , medicine, etcetera, but we do socialized medicine, it's called medicare. i don't see seniors in the pitch forks protesting against medicare. so that single-payer issue is thing. number two, i don't know if anyone has been able to do this, paycheck, look at my i get something taken out for edicare, something taken out for medicaid,

president trump has a responsibility to make our healthcare system work. millions of americans will hold him accountable if the system implodes on his watch.he if insurers leave the market on his watch, or if their premiums go up 20% or more in his watch. of course, when congress could remove the uncertainty and take the decision out of the presidency in. we can and should guarantee or these payments as soon as possible, before the insurers set the rates for next year. i urge my republican friends to join us on senator shaheen's bill to guarantee the payments to prevent president trumps premium tax from going intos, ht effect. republican senators alexander, collins, hatch, portman, johnson, have spoke about the need to do this. i hope they'll help us move forward. we could get this done quickly and show the american people that we are able to work together on healthcare in a dow bipartisan way to help keep costs down. now on another matter, russia sanctions. i very proud that last week, as nearly every member of congress voted to pass legislation to sancti

bring in susan devore, ceo of healthcare improvement company. where are we on healthcare?iven you're on the republican side of things. an outcome here that's been dish to your side of aisle? >> at premier we work with 3700 hospitals and healthcare systems and 100,000 plus physicians. they are all focused on the fundamental problem. which is whatever happens with the republican bill with the proposal, the fundamental problems haven't changed. which is we have to figure out problem.re the cost the quality and safety and outcome problem. all of the premier health on how do ifocused move forward with these value-based payment model. that. is talking about it's an important part of obamacare and not a part that about changing. if you think about it and you go morning,ur car in the you have two lights on and one said change the oil filter and said check your engine, that's the core of the challenge. we're talking about a bunch of other stuff vonnie: there will be political will to do it. there clearly isn't. >> i think the challenge is it's very big and complex. you have some st

robert: no holiday for healthcare. the senate bill is stalled. the affordable care act, under siege. many americans just want to know, where does that leave me and my family? we have some answers tonight on "washington week." >> we know that we cannot afford to delay on this issue. we have to get this done for the american people. robert: but delay they did. senate republicans punt the replacement healthcare bill past the july 4 recess as the divide continues between conservatives and moderates. among sticking points, medicaid policies, tax relief for the wealthy and assistance for low and moderate income americans. >> the central focus needs to be on lowering premiums. the current draft doesn't do nearly enough to fix that problem. >> it's difficult for me to see how any tinkering is going to satisfy my fundamental and deep concerns. robert: polls show most americans do not support the g.o.p. legislation but leadership remains confident compromise is possible. >> legislation of this complexity almost always takes longer than anybody else would h

the healthcare that we can afford. ainsley: he said he was going to fire tom price if it didn't get done. was that actually a joke or is he going to do that. >> i think he was joking there was a lot of laughter afterwards. tom price is a great guy. he has done a wonderful job trying to work this healthcare system through. i think we are requesting to see success at some point hopefully today and over the coming weeks. steve: i think it was joke because it's hard to fire a former boy scout at the national boy scout jam bore re. before you go have you a new white house communications director anthony scaramucci. he made his debut last friday at the podium and got good debuts and went on the sunday chat shows and said yeah, we have had a problem with leakers in the past but everybody has got amnesty as long as they keep their lip zipped right now, otherwise you will get canned immediately if we catch you. has there been a change in how it feels in the west wing like, okay, we don't have to worry about that anymore or are

they want good jobs, affordable healthcare.ble and the cost of obamacare are increasingly unaffordable for consumers and businesses. we can put our heads in the stand and play politics while we know with certainty what is ahead. what is ahead, the healthcare system with more federal and state budgets than ever before, to advance this, and assuring american there won't be a healthcare system it they can depend on when it counts. todd: three republican senators voted against it. they are susan collins, lisa murkowski and john mccain. that was a surprise to many people when he issued that for. instead of looking at the past, let's go forward. what can be done going forward, you heard john mccain on the senate floor professing the desire for bipartisanship going forward. >> without bipartisan support, without aligning the factions of the republican party, have the republican party thought it was too liberal. there are issues with obamacare, some of the initial proposals with the first version of trumpcare, and to rollback medicaid

the problem that republicans are having with healthcare is not a time. it's the substance of the bill. they can spend two more weeks, two more months or two years. the bill is going to be as unpopular as it is today. they have had six months on the bill since january 4. they haven't been able to make progress. two weeks isn't going to solve the problem. the only way they can solve the problem is very simple. it's rid of all of the tax cuts to the rich and medicaid and work with us to improve the existing system areas by the way i have sympathy for the republicans. i wouldn't want to face them either because they are not getting a good reaction on the bill. on the amendment which seems to be the latest incarnation to a try to rescue the bill let me be clear. the amendment is a hoax. it would allow health insurers to offer joh junk insurance so g as it includes one option that it covers all affordable care act mandated benefits. separating the sick and healthy will drive up everybody's costs. deductibles and copayments will be very high making it unafforda

republicans pull the plug on the healthcare bill. we're live in washington with the fallout. >>> global markets immediately reacting to the news the u.s. dollar dropping to multi-month lows.trading day se. >>> and netflix takes the crown, we'll tell you what's behind that big move coming up. it's tuesday, july 18, 2017, "worldwide exchange" is coming up right now ♪ >>> good morning a warm welcome to "worldwide exchange" on cnbc. i'm wilfred frost. >> i'm seema mody in for sara eisen. >> it feels like it's a thursday, but it's not >> tuesday >> exciting news afrnlgts lot happeni a lot happening. >>> let look at markets this morning. that breaking news overnight senate republicans pulling their healthcare bill after failing to secure enough votes to pass it let's get straight to nbc's chris pollone in washington with all the details. >> reporter: good morning. you want to talk about timing. last night president trump had about eight members of congress over to the white house for dinner trying to get their support for the senate's plan

how do you see the healthcare bill going down?rojected next year, 44 counties will have no choice at all. we are in a death spiral right now. there's no question to that. this narrative of the democrats pushing and were killing people and taken away healthcare, let's not forget the biggest liable which was told by barack obama, if you like insurance, you can keep it. yes, we need to fix something here. repeal now, replace later, let's do something because this is not working. >> jesse: anton, do the democrats have any substitutes policy input that they think the republican party might go along with? >> that depends. we have policy input for six years when president obama was president, guess what, the congress had no interest in trying to prove healthcare make it better. so, i don't think they're interested in listening to good ideas. they just want to repeal the affordable care act and give the opportunity to say they want something and take health insurance on 22 millie people. >> jesse: i don't agree with the last part. but i a

we are looking at a healthcare that would be a fantastic tribute to our country, a healthcare that willre of people, finally, for the right reasons and also at the right cost. and what also came out is the fact that this healthcare would be so good, it would be far better than obamacare and would be much less expensive for the people, and actually mh country. so those are a lot of good factors. i think this has a chance to be a great healthcare. >> seth: he sounds like a high school student who didn't read the book, or have the book, or know how to read. [ cheers and applause ] in fact, trump ally -- trump ally newt gingrich, the former speaker of the house admitted yesterday that trump is incapable of grasping the policy details, saying someone else should come up with an argument in favor of the gop healthcare bill, and then explain it to trump. gingrich told the a.p., trump will be able to repeat it with enormous effectiveness once somebody translates it. [ light laughter ] great. you know, just make sure that if you let him out of his cage, all the windows are closed. [ light laught

bua you heard them say they have a card but that doesn't necessarily mean you have healthcare. that's one of the problems that republicans say they're trying to solve, but george's echoing where i think a lot of democrats are which it's a right, not a privilege and it should be afforded to all citizens in this country and that is something that i think democrats are moving more and more in that direction.ec we've seen democrats in california try to pass a single-payer health care bill. they actually pulled it because it was too expensive and they can figure out how to pay for it, but that's certainly something your hearing more and more fromf democrats across the country. >> more and more in that direction, and is that to the detriment for support for fixing and keeping the affordable care act in place? >> i think they see the affordable care act as a way station along the way and for all of its flaws and potential failures, they will.those out and say look, we need to move in a different direction which is essentially what the medicaid expansion has been. they want to see medi

we've got one last chance to stop single payer healthcare.l, we better come up with a plan that saves the private sector. the government is very involved in healthcare. it is called medicare. it is called medicaid. i have got one simple go with my colleagues is to save the private sector option for people who make too much for medicaid and are not 65 to keep competition alive and well in the private sector. i'm not going to bail out insurance companies because that won't solve the problem. senator cruz's amendment will allow people to buy policies beyond the obama care policy. we're creating more choice. we're repealing the individual mandate, the employer mandate, which are the heart and soul of obama care. so this proposal by mitch mcconnell is not like obama care. my proposal is the ultimate republican solution in this regard. we believe those closest to the patient should have the money and the decision-making authority. we believe that our governors and our statehouse can do a better job than a washington bureaucrat. i don't mind putting

lori: they failed on healthcare in this latest round.people are concerned with the lack of legislative support the president has, it will put tax reform in jeopardy. fred: there are a lot of people looking for reasons to say that republicans can't do anything because they have did fail so spectacularly at least for now on healthcare. but one thing that has been organized for months has been the gang of six that has come together to run the effort for tax reform. the statement released last night showed that, they agree on what to do. it's a completely different proposition than healthcare and i think it will be successful. lori: ed, all sorts of geopolitical threats out there. now that there is a general running things in the west wing, do you think that will get a better handle on curb these efforts? ed: they see chaos and when they see chaos, after we failed on the healthcare and the white house is in disarray, he fires off a rocket today. i think we'll deal with this problem as effectively as we can and it will and high priority. the

that was before the healthcare vote failed.nd i think that it's important to give credit where it's due. there were a number of different activists and organizers all over the country, dying in, sleeping in offices all around the country, going to the capitol, getting arrested, people in wheelchairs literally getting arrested. >> people being taken out of wheelchairs by the capitol police. i've never seen that in all my years of civil rights, i've never seen that. >> that surprises me that you've never seen that, rev, given your history. i think that that was a powerful moment for the resistance to this administration that showed that, no, you're not going to take our healthcare away without a fight. >> i will get to some of the inside baseball because i'm much more concerned about what happens to people than what happens on the west wing, but i must touch on this whole fight, scaramucci coming in, the reince priebus being dismissed. how does this play in terms of making the west wing under trump even look more unstable than th

having healthcare go first make that easier. the senate doesn't repeal those taxes and we don't get that in law when we have to do and already decided our plan b is, those obamacare taxes stay on the books in law with obamacare and if we want to get rid of those obamacare taxes we got to get rid of obamacare so it doesn't harm tax reform. what we are going to do is cordon those taxes to the side, make sure those healthcare taxes stay with obamacare and reform the rest of the tax code so we can keep the tax plan to keep rates down, push expenses as far as we can go, get to a territorial system and clean up the code for families and workers so have a simplified system to consolidate brackets and give people a code they can understand. >> lowering corporate taxes are important to be competitive for the rest of the world. and larger companies as well. the president is at 15%, you are at 25%. is their discrepancy in the corporate rate? >> 25, corporates pay another layer of taxation and capital gains. we are very close. the question

i expect that healthcare hopefully will get done.ess we are committed to getting tax reform done. julie: house speaker paul ryan and treasury secretary steve mnuchin doubling down on their commitment to tax reform following the missed deadline on the senate healthcare bill when several republicans objected to it. now the big question is, will tax reform actually take priority over healthcare? let's bring in the president of district media group and heritage foundation fellow and don calloway former missouri state representative and founder of pine street strategies. thank you guys for talking to us. let me just ask you, first, don, any chance that tax reform is going to happen in this year? >> no. that's the very short answer, but tax reform is a very complicated process. the last time it happened was 1986, and that started with ideas and bills that were filed as far back as 1979, which by the way was a very good year. i have been around a few years now. i have seen drafts coming out of the house ways and means committee and we have

that this is not the way to go on healthcare. the way to go is as we have said for many months is to end this our way or the highway reconciliation thing and go back to saying that our two committees are going to do what we spent lots of years doing which is working to find common ground was senators of both political parties who have common sense. that is the way we deal with big issues like health care and taxes. like we have said, we are ready to go that as soon as we and the effort to jam this horrible bill through the senate and harm the american people. >> just one more point, given how unpopular the original bill was, how does leader mcconnell hope to get this bill which is virtually the same thing in so many ways through the senate? [inaudible] the merits, but on political muscle? for the sake the american people, i hope that political muscle fails. [inaudible question] a lot of conservatives say we don't need a recess, can you explain what happened during this time and who is the real loser? >> we don't know what will ha

healthcare.t's the biggest expense for the average family and outrageously expensive. 1981 it was the cause of 8% of brupss. the reason republicans are having such problems reforming obamacare is it all costs so much. we showed how the pharmaceutical industry and its corrupt stooges in congress keep drug prices high. tonight we'll talk about the role hospitals play. hospitals sounds like charitable institutions. most of of them avoid paying tax because they are charitable non-profits. the local hospital with your friendly doctor has been replaced by vast mega hospitals run by administrators in multi million done a packages. like michael dowling. he raked in $10 million a year. let's all join a non-profit. the insanely expensive hospital bills you get. if you are a go-getting chief executive, healthcare or farm -- or pharmaceuticals is the business to be in. those in healthcare and pharmaceuticals were paid $37 million more than any other sector. communications, real estate and industrials don't e

as we confront the challenges in healthcare and beyond, because i have faith. so with boundless faith in the american people, with faith in you men and women in this room who lead the great state of this union, with faith in our president's vision and determination and with faith in god who has ever watched over this land of the free and home of the brave, i say with confidence we will make america safe again. we will make america prosperous again. we will give americans the opportunity to have access to world-class health care again. and to borrow a phrase, working with all of you on behalf of all of the american people, we will make america great again, thank you very much. god bless you for your service to this nation. unless you date and god bless the united states of america. >>. [applause]

about healthcare. because the president is forcing mitch mcconnell to hold a vote when there is not support for it. this is about the american people being touched. many of the president's supporters are not feeling the new healthcare plan that would affect them and the ways that it would. they are not happy with this. the president is trying to force a vote. he can have all the lunches and meetings that he can call, but when it affects the senators constituents and affects people, and people are going to these town hall meetings screaming, these senators feel it. that's why you are hearing from the rand pauls and you're seeing the women pulling away from saying yes to a vote on this new healthcare plan. it will continue to be a downward spiral and he will have to call on a higher power if he wants to see this passed. >> david, very quickly -- >> if i could interject here. the president is not getting behind republicans on this. he celebrated with house republicans about passing their bill, then turned

the healthcare freedom act. it appears for 16 million americans, they will be free of health insurance protection. 16million americans will lose their health insurance protection because of this republican plan. and, every other american buying health insurance will be free to pay 20% more eachhe year for the premiums on their health insurance. you don't have to be a math major to figure out compound interest at 20%. year. by the fourth year, you're knocking on one 100% increase in your premiums. your health insurance premiums will double in about four years under the republican plan.and raise is that why they started this debate? so they could take health insurance away from millionsos of americans and raise the cost of health insurance for others? four senators had a press conference at 5:00 p.m. i watched it carefully. i listened as my colleagues came to the floor and those senators described this plan. they had seen it, the so-called skinny repeal plan. one of the senator said, about this plan, it was a frau

healthcare.iggest expense for the average family and outrageously expensive. 1981 it was the cause of 8% of brupss. the reason republicans are having such problems reforming obamacare is it all costs so much. we showed how the pharmaceutical industry and its corrupt stooges in congress keep drug prices high. tonight we'll talk about the role hospitals play. hospitals sounds like charitable institutions. most of of them avoid paying tax because they are charitable non-profits. the local hospital with your friendly doctor has been replaced by vast mega hospitals run by administrators in multi million done a packages. like michael dowling. he raked in $10 million a year. let's all join a non-profit. the insanely expensive hospital bills you get. if you are a go-getting chief executive, healthcare or farm -- or pharmaceuticals is the business to be in. those in healthcare and pharmaceuticals were paid $37 million more than any other sector. communications, real estate and industrials don't even come

healthcare.ggest expense for the average family and outrageously expensive. 1981 it was the cause of 8% of brupss. the reason republicans are having such problems reforming obamacare is it all costs so much. we showed how the pharmaceutical industry and its corrupt stooges in congress keep drug prices high. tonight we'll talk about the role hospitals play. hospitals sounds like charitable institutions. most of of them avoid paying tax because they are charitable non-profits. the local hospital with your friendly doctor has been replaced by vast mega hospitals run by administrators in multi million done a packages. like michael dowling. he raked in $10 million a year. let's all join a non-profit. the insanely expensive hospital bills you get. if you are a go-getting chief executive, healthcare or farm -- or pharmaceuticals is the business to be in. those in healthcare and pharmaceuticals were paid $37 million more than any other sector. communications, real estate and industrials don't even come c