we are certainly not arguing that obamacare is adequate. what i don't understand why they are so dissatisfied with it. they made such a big deal of getting it passed out of the president signing it. if they are willing to admit that there are problems with obamacare related to the cost, to the deductibles, the co-payments, we will be glad to work with them on that. >> martha: so you are saying it must generate from democrats? you are not going to -- there are not going to be any generation of a fix for obamacare that's going to come through the congress on republican side? >> how would we be able to adjust healthcare in a way that we would like to with a nancy pelosi-led house? it's not possible. >> martha: in terms of the senate you have got a lot of your colleagues that are running for president in 2020. joe biden, the former colleague is at the top of the list right now in terms of the polls. do you think that lasts? >> oh, gosh, i don't know. i'm not an expert on democratic presidential politics. what i do know we have an awful lot of c

eligibility for obamacare exchange subsidies. we're going to have this tit for tat, mr. chairman, and they are going to defend obamacare. we will always say that the private market is better to rovide lower cost, rapid response. it's an ideological fight. we'll eventually come back and address these prescription drug issues that, as i mentioned, mr. chairman, we probably would pass on a voice vote once we return this. with that i'd like to thank my colleagues and i have great respect to my colleague from vermont. he's very sincere. good friend. we look forward to debating this more in the future. with that i yield back. the chair: the question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from vermont. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. he amendment is agreed to. it is now in order to consider amendment number 4 printed in house report 116-61. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from delaware seek recognition? ms. blunt rochester: thank you, mr. chairman. i have an amendment

my point being, obamacare had problems. we came doing and tried to address those problems with this legislation, repealing the unsustainable class act, cadillac and medical device, the independent payment advisory board, on and on and on and my friends voted with us and with them. so don't come down that only republicans voted to do things on obamacare. we also support these drug bills. there's no question about that, because we want lower cost drugs and stop bad behaviors that prevent generics coming to market sooner. i recognize the gentleman from georgia, mr. carter, for three minutes. . mr. carter: mr. speaker, i come before you today a very disappointed person, a disappointed member of congress, a disappointed pharmacist. disappointed that my democratic colleagues have decided to prioritize politics over patients. by packing together bipartisan bills to lower drug costs with partisan bills to bail out obamacare. two completely different subjects. republicans and democrats have worked hard to create strong bipartisan bi

my point being, obamacare had problems. we came doing and tried to address those problems with this legislation, repealing the unsustainable class act, cadillac and medical device, the independent payment advisory board, on and on and on and my friends voted with us and with them. so don't come down that only republicans voted to do things on obamacare. we also support these drug bills. there's no question about that, because we want lower cost drugs and stop bad behaviors that prevent generics coming to market sooner. i recognize the gentleman from georgia, mr. carter, for three minutes. . mr. carter: mr. speaker, i come before you today a very disappointed person, a disappointed member of congress, a disappointed pharmacist. disappointed that my democratic colleagues have decided to prioritize politics over patients. by packing together bipartisan bills to lower drug costs with partisan bills to bail out obamacare. two completely different subjects. republicans and democrats have worked hard to create strong bipartisan bi

they're done defending obamacare. in fact, democrats are happy to repeal obamacare so they can replace it with a one-size-fits-all health plan for america -- health care plan for america. senator heitkamp is actually warning -- warning them -- not to cast aside obamacare and start all over again with a one-size-fits-all plan. well, mr. president, let me just say, as a doctor, as a physician who has taken care of patients for decades, my focus continues to be on improving health care for american patients and for their families. americans want to focus on real health care reforms that make a difference for them, for their families in terms of the cost and in terms of the quality of their care. these are the issues that republicans are working on right now, protecting patients with preexisting conditions it lowering prescription drug costs, and ending surprise medical bills. mr. president, surprise medical bills are bills patients receive that come out of nowhere. these bills are an unfair financial burden on many famil

people like aspects of obamacare. >> it is what cost democrats in the wake of passing obamacare. >> exactly school budget committee chairman said medicare for all is a rorschach test. read into it what you want. to be optional medicare, mandatory medicare. the question is how is it defined and framed. it polls well, not just with democrats, but once you say it will eliminate private insurance, numbers crash. >> something they're taking away. >> that's right. this is why we know where this is headed. democrats have to get comfortable pushing that public option as their platform. >> it is very obvious and stunning statement how health care politics changed in this country. it was the socialist completely unacceptable option in 2008. >> the fact that centrist democrats support it as their position is a remarkable change. >>> much more from the great panel. up ahead, the issues they do want to talk about. climate change. can it be a vote changer for 2020? fact is, every insurance company hopes you drive safely. but allstate actually helps you drive safely... with drivewise. it lets you know whe

let's get rid of the obamacare tax is been a little longer need.ed medical device tax or the tax and health care plans. that puts many people's pockets. to be able to afford health care plans. secretary clinton is concerned about health care. here is a double-win. let's get rid of the obamacare taxes, make health care better, and continue approving the economy. >> melissa: i think you took her bait. it was smart of her to link that you may be better off, but are you more insecure because you don't health care? to prove it to health care when the economy is your winter, when go out what cory booker said, he is just factually incorrect. maybe he doesn't do numbers, i don't know. if you look at gdp growth, it was discovered under president obama, he went from 2.3% to 1.9% to 1.8%. when the president came into office, president obama famously said that 2% was the new normal, that would be like europe. immediately under president trump jumps to 2.9% on average. we saw 4.2%. real median income did not budge under president obama. it has been rising, the

-- derisively call obamacare, with no out that, with no plan. this administration is actual any a federal court arguing that the law is unconstitutional, the very law that gives protections to everyone in this country who has a preexisting condition -- a child born at birth with some heart disease, a husband who had a heart attack, a woman simply because she is a woman and before was discriminated because she was a woman, and somehow that was a preexisting condition and allowed insurance companies to charge twice as much as their male counterpart in the same age group and the same geography. it was the affordable care act that ended that discrimination. it is the affordable care act that ended lifetime caps, so if you had a major illness like cancer, before you hit the creating on your insurance and you were one illness away from bankruptcy, the affordable care act ended lifetime caps so that if you had a serious illness, you're still covered. the affordable care act created the possibility for our children to be able to stay on our insurance un

creation, i wouldn't say you are sabotaging obamacare with this, but certainly changing obamacare and the and-a-half depateors are looking at the cost. i think the gentleman has 40 health centers in his district and i assume you know that i get about 63 locations and i assume you know the money for those health centers runs out at the end of the fiscal year. i would rather put the money into that than into this program. mr. chairman, i oppose this amendment and i yield back. the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the question is now on the amendment offered by the gentleman from california, those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the yeas have it and the amendment is agreed to. it is now in order to consider amendment number 20 rinted in house report 116-61. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from texas seek recognition? mr. escobar: mr. chairman, i have an amendment at the desk. the chair: the clerk will designate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 20 printed in house report 116-61 offered by ms. escobar of texas. the

is there any other way to see that other than hypocrisy in terms of obamacare?eep their health care. okay. and when somebody says we're going to take 20 million people off the rolls, that puts fear into everybody. it wasn't just democrats who were concerned in the midterm. it was suburban women. now, the democrat proposal which is medicare for all, is, i think, it's just wacky. what it means, what the details are, look, most of the people in this country are either covered through private health insurance like you are at cnn or they're covered by medicaid and medicare. and people are not going to lose their private insurance to go to some other plan that frankly abolished private health insurance. the democrats have to be very careful. they won by opposing something i'm not quite sure what they're saying, although some of the candidates, i think klobuchar, some others, maybe hickenlooper, are talking about changes to obamacare because it needs to be changed, but you don't throw out the whole system. when you do that, you make people very nervous. what the republ

obamacare has had an evolution in public opinion, it was controversial, then it went into effect andely it is gaining in popularity. if it were to disappear from a judge's ruling, what would be lost? >> well, basically everything that people like, the requirement for people to have health insurance was the only really unpopular piece of the affordable care act, things like protecting people with preexisting conditions, expanding the medicaid program, letting adult kids stay on their parents' health plans, menu calorie labeling, allowing for generic biologic drugs, all of those things are quite popular and they would all go away if this law is struck down. >> elie honig, again, my clunky introduction, the reason i corrected myself about the individual mandate being unconstitutional is because the strekt didn't decide that. what happened from a legal standpoint was when congress passed the tax bill in 2017 they removed the penalty for the individual mandate and a texas judge has decided, well, if that penalty is gone, if, in fact, enforcing the individual mandate goes away then the res

what the hell ever happened to obamacare?ix everything. >> well, absolutely. remember, when obama was a senator from illinois, he was a supporter of single payer. when he became the president and was behind obamacare, the affordable care act, he said he wasn't for single payer because the american people like their employer-sponsored insurance, which about 173 million americans have employer-sponsored insurance. after office, of course, he's come out and said he's again in favor of single payer. his two ideas for the health care system under obamacare; one,ea to wipe out all the uninsured which, you know, right now there are about 28 million still uninsured, he wanted to lower the cost of health care. none of that has happened. and obamacare has been a failure because the premiums are too high, the deductibles are too high. people found out that the doctor and the exchange plan that they signed up for, the metallic plan, or their doctor wasn't on that plan. we upset the whole health care system in this country in 2010 when ob

way up after obamacare. we will save money? their stocks are way up. good for them but bad for consumers. democrats on the issue of immigration, listen to some unearthed footage of joe biden from way back november 2006. >> i voted for a fence. [muffled audio]. people are driving across that border with tons of everything.

because thertant term obamacare was not what the president or his party called the law initially.are was developed strategically by republican pollsters and frank luntz who realize when people heard the word the affordable care act in a sense it was a positive sounding law. however especially if republicans are people who identify as such heard the word obamacare it would immediately associate with the president, his party and develop a sort of opposition to the law. -- or of the term obamacare we used in the title in a sense, it is part of what we are trying to signify with that title is the war was in a sense as much about the sort of symbolic politics of , theaw as the substantive substance as well. the affordable care act was signed in 2010 and the purpose accesslaw was to expand to health coverage and to improve the quality of insurance coverage that was offered especially in the individual market place. the affordable care act tried to do this while leaving much of the structure of the american health care system in place. for example the affordable care act it replace our h

already doing brilliantly before obamacare.ted health group is up 628%. humana is up 405%. these guys make money, no matter what system is or is not in place. doctor, where do the insurance companies shoulder some of the solution here? >> well, i think what's happening, i frankly believe that even they recognize that the gig is up. if you look at the cvs/aetna merger, united health group has been more about data and optum and ai, because health care is the only entity in our entire economy where the middleman has been up 600%. liz: i know. >> just those statistics you gave about pharma and insurers, at a time where president obama was trying to decrease the cost of health care, how are you going to decrease the cost of health care if you are bringing back 600% returns to your shareholders? liz: give us your three top solutions to this issue and hopefully some of it involves really holding on to the quality of health care. >> so the first thing i think we have to do is we have to invest in technology and deep learning machine co

we have not heard much about repealing obamacare.ecognition that it did not work so well in the off year election? chris: he didn't just bring it up a few weeks ago. it was a shock to republicans when he did. we are going to push a bill and what we strong on pre-existing conditions. david: after the election. that is important. chris: a couple months. that is all right. everybody has to run on their own on that. there is clearly something that has to be done. you see a lot of states collapsing under the weight of the obamacare mandates. as you see obamacare start to dissolve, because of its own structure, i think republicans will be smart, have to come forward with another plan. i would dispute about the idea that people on main street are not feeling the economy. when you see the numbers going up to 55% approval, wages are rising at the worker level at a higher level than we ever saw under any past president for the past 20 years, unemployment the lowest in 50 years, it is tough to make the argument that this is not being felt at al

section 1332 waivers were first enacted under obamacare to provide states the opportunity to innovate and provide their residents with affordable health insurance options. the trump administration is simply updated the guidance for these 1332 obamacare waivers to make it easier for states plan to be approved. this guidance does not. i repeat, does not permit the secretary to waiver pre-existing condition protections, period. but don't take my word for it alone. c.m.s. administrator confirmed yesterday in writing, quote, to be clear, the 2018 guidance does nothing to erode the pre-existing condition provisions, which can cannot be waived under section 1332. wrote the administrator, she wrote on to explain, i quote, section 1332 does not permit states to waive public health service act requirements such as guaranteed availability, and renublet of health insurance. the prohibitions on using health status, and the prohibition on pre-existing condition exclusions. furthermore, section 1332 waiver can not be approved that might otherwise undermine these requirements. this administration sta

essentially there were about half of the cost of the plans that you can get for obamacare. he said if yo you'd like to help her plan you can keep it so that was restoring the choice of the things peoplees previously had. >> host: as far as those are you an advocate or do you oppose? >> guest: id said insurance has to be priced the same for people who sign up before they get sick and people that sign up after. so, what the hell happened in the first couple of years after was people started waiting before they purchased insurance so they started spiraling upwards because the only people buying insurance for people that havwithserious medical conditio. and therefore what happened is even though the subsidies that were attached to the affordable direct plan protected the people who were enrolled from catastrophic expenses and stabilized the guarantees offered. people who are willing to sign upup before they got sick really had no access to affordable coverage. if you think of the plan, the benchmark premiums has like $5,000 then you are facing another deductible on top of the $

they were essentially about half the cost of the plans that you can get through obamacare. president obama famously said if you like your health care plan, you can keep it. that rule was restoring the choice of plans the people previously had. host: as far as the plans themselves, are you and advocate for them, and opponent? guest: i am very much in advocate of these plans. what the affordable care act did was it said that insurance has to be priced the same for people who sign up before they get sick as people who sign up after they get sick. what we saw happen a couple years after was that people started waiting to get sick before they purchased insurance. that means that the premium started spiraling upwards because the only people buying insurance had serious medical conditions. what happened is even though the subsidies that were attached to the affordable care act plans protected people who were enrolled from catastrophic expenses and stabilize the guarantees, people who are willing to sign up before they got sick had no access to affordable coverage. the average plan

if you want obamacare, you can be in that. if you want other kinds of more affordable health insurance plans, a lot of young people cannot afford obamacare, let people buy insurance across state lines. havemall businesses associated health plans. let people buy high deductible plans. everyone should be able to buy whatever health insurance they want. the problem i have with obamacare is one-size-fits-all. you and i may have very different desires and attitudes about what kind of health insurance we want. let me say something about the immigration plan. i work on this with jared kushner. they have done an incredible job. this is an interesting and important issue for our country. who are we going to allow to become americans? what donald trump wants to do is say, we are going to retain the immediate family. spouse,ave a child or a your first in line to allow those people to come into the country. this idea you can bring in a second cousin and that people can, in based on who they are related to, -- can come in based on who they

the insurers since obamacare. we know before obamacare, they were doing very well.they have done well. obamacare under attack, they have still done well. what role must the insurer shoulder? i'm pushing you a little bit here because my viewers know, my dad was a surgeon and he railed against you guys. he said you'll notice doctors lose, hospitals lose, the pharmas lose, insurers always come out on top no matter what. >> i think it's a fair question. i think that insurers play a fundamental role in helping structure networks and in today's world, they are providing data and information to both consumers and to physicians. i think that the leading health plans are entering into long-term partnerships with physicians and physician groups to focus on creating more value and affordability. so i think there clearly is an opportunity for health plans to do better and for all aspects of the system to do better. the underlying rate of increase in health care costs is at least two times the cpi. long term that is not sustainable. and it's not affordable for the average family

are you obligate d to fix obamacare first? >> we're obligated to make sure trump and others don't throws millions off of health care they are enjoying. the point is the current health care system is absolutely dysfunctional. you've got 34 million without any health insurance, even more underinsured. elderly people can't afford dental care, eye glasses, and for all that we spend twice as much money on health care than any other country and pay highest prices on prescription drugs. i know the insurance companies will spend hundreds of millions of dollars including ads on nbc attacking bernie sanders, attacking medicare for all. look at the polling. people support medicare very, very strongly and all we are saying is you've got a good program in medicare expanded to everybody else, improve medicare for senior citizens. and when we do that, we're going to provide comprehensive care to all people and we're going to do it by saving substantial sums of money. >> under your plan we're eliminating private insurance? correct? >> we are

are youou obligated to fix obamacare first?>> well, we're obligated to make sure that trump and the republicans do not throw tens of millions of t people off the health care that they currently are enjoying. but here is the point. the point is the current health care system is absolutely dysfunctional. you have 34 million without any health insurance. even more who are underinsured. elderly people can't afford dental care, eye glasses. we managed to spend twice as much and we pay the highest prices in the world for prescription rudrugs. i know the drug companies, the insurance companies will spend hundreds of millions of dollars including adsb on nbc attacking bernie sanders and medicare for all. the people support it very strongly. all we areyi saying is you have good program inn medicare. expand it to everybody. improve medicare for senior citizens. when we do that, we will provide comprehensive care to all people and do it by saving substantial sums of money. >> under your plan, we're eliminating private insurance, correct?

they're essentially about half the cost of the plans you can get through obamacare. president obama obviously famously said if you like your health care plan, you can keep it. so that rule was restoring the choice of plans that people previously had. >> as far as the plans themselves, are you an advocate for them? >> i'm very much an advocate of these plans. my view of what the affordable care act did at its core was it said insurance has to be priced the same for people who sign up before they get sick as sign up after they get sick. the first couple years after the aca went into effect was people started waiting to get sick before they purchased insurance. that means premiums started spiraling upwards. even though the subsidies attached to the affordable care act plans protected these people who were enrolled from catastrophic expenses, people who were willing to sign up before they got sick really had in access to affordable coverage. if you think of the average obamacare plan, the benchmark premium is something like $5,000. and then you're facing another deductib

2017 a 2018, los nÚmeros demuestran que el esfuerzo del presidente trump para destino imitar el obamacarendo en un lujo y cada vez son mÁs los que lo pierden como el caso de carla. >> no tengo seguro >> dice que a pesar de sufrir de artritis, tendrÁ que buscar otro trabajo para poder pagar el aumento a la prima de seguro >> uno no estÁ muy bien de salud, las medicinas del medicare ya no las puedes pagar. >> segÚn una encuesta realizada los latinos son el grupo Étnico mÁs vulnerable, el 26% de los latinos residente nosotros estados unidos, no cuentan con seguro mÉdico, comparado con el 15% de afroamericanos, 9% de blancos y no hispanos y 8, 1% de asiÁticos. >> expertos consideran que esto es asÍ porque los latinos tenemos menos poder adquisitivo y trabajamos mÁs en empleos relacionados con la industria de servicios donde pocos trabajos ofrecen cobertura mÉdica >> cada esfuerzo que se ha hecho para tratar de eliminar el obamacare, sigue en pie. >> contrario otras partes del paÍs aqui en nueva york hay buenas noticias el alcalde recientemente anunciÓ que en la ciudad habrÁ seguro mÉdico para

are you oblated to fix obamacare first? >> well, we're obligated to make sure that trump and the republicans do not throw tens of millions of people off their health care that they currently are enjoying. but here's the point -- thes point i the current health care system is absolutely dysfunctional. you've got 34 million without any health insurance, even more who are underinjured, elderly people -- under insured, elderly people can't afford hearing aids, eyeglasses. for all of that we managed to spend twice as much per capita p health care as people of any other country and the highest amount for prescription drugs. i know the health care industry, the drug and insurance companies will spend hundreds millions of dollars including ads on nbc, attacking bernie sanders, attacking medicare for all. but you know what, you look at the polling. the people support medicare very, very strongly. all we are say gg is you've a good program in medicare, expand it to everybody else, improve medicare for senior dcitizens. anhen we do th

look at obamacare, look at what they did with obamacare now 10 years ago, now they say medicare for allr none. obamacare was a step toward socialize medicine, now they at least admit it. trish: free stuff is is not free. >> it is not. trish: that is one factoid they keep forgetting about. another story, just according to a report, special counsel robert mueller told attorney general barr that he mischaracterized conclusion. doj saying that false. your reaction. i read all 443 pages of that report, i saw barr's characterization, i don't think he mischaracterized it at all, but i want to hear you say. >> mueller seeps to b seems to e a political activist now with this letter. if we had not seen the report, and he wanted to say his lotter mischaracterized it that is one thing, but american people have seen the pages of the report, there is no mischaracterization. mr. robert mueller has become a political activist, out to destroy this president, if robert mueller was honest person, throughout this whole thing after 6 months of his investigation, he knew there was no collusion, he knew -- he

they were essentially at half the cost of the plans you can get epthrough obamacare. the president said if you like your health care plan you can keep it and that was restoring the choice of plans people previously had. >> as far as the plans themselves are you an advocate or are you opposed? >> i am very much an advocate, what the affordable care act did was it set that insurance has to be the same for people who sign up before they get sick as well as people that sign up after they get sick. that means premiums started spiraling upwards because the only people buying insurance were the ones with serious medical conditions. even though the subsidies that were -- plans protected these people who were involved from catastrophic expenses people who were willing to sign up really had no access to affordable coverage. think of the average cost of the plan, the benchmark premium is $5000 then you are affecting another deductible on top of that, that is like $9000 before you are getting any real care. what these plans that the administration made available they restore heal

democrats want to increase obamacare enrollment regardless of cost, but obamacare is not affordable for many americans. the average monthly premium for a family of four is over $1,500, forcing missourians to cut housing and childcare so they can pay skyrocketing premiums. it is not a solution. we must take immediate action to allow states to promote choices and affordability. i thank you and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from pennsylvania seek recognition? >> i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlewoman is recognized for ne minute. >> madam speaker, yesterday the house passed h.r. 299, the blue water navy veteran -- vietnam veterans act of 2019. ms. scanlon: this long overdue legislation would finally provide disability benefits to veterans who served in the territorial seas surrounding vietnam during the vietnam war and were exposed to agent orange. this change is long overdue but, sadly, vietnam veterans have suffered the consequences of agent orange related illne

failed because the current law of the land is obamacare. i think it is a fair thing to point that you. you know, essentially what they are saying is yeah obamacare didn't very good but give us $32 trillion, and another chance, and this time we will fix it and this time we will fix it for real n. my last election i talked a lot about this. it was an issue we discussed all the time. i didn't spend much time talking about the $32 trillion price tag or the fact that you have to double tax virtually every american business to pay for it. i think there is a more devastating aspect for medicare for you will. that's the thing i want to focus on today. quoting from the cbo report because the public plan would provide a specified set of health care services to everyone jibls, participants would not have a choice of insurer or health benefits. something like 60%. i think it depends on who you talk to, but it's close, 60% of americans get their insurance from a private insurance now. they are possessive of that. they should be. they want to protect the

but of course it grows out of obamacare.so trying to figure out do you want to be seen as going back to obama or do you want to go in a different direction. one thing that we're seeing also is that among the kind of what people refer to democratic twitter or the -- >> crazy place to be. >> and not really representative of where the democratic party is a lot of the time. and there you see a lot more questions about barack obama and more reconsideration of him. overall though, in every poll that comes out, obama is wildly popular among democrats and that is something that biden is tapping obama put together a c he a ligs that included people of color and a massive turnout of people of color. how do you see his role here? because you do have some progressives who are kind of shying away, maybe not from the man himself, but from some of the policies saying that for example obamacare didn't go far enough, why didn't he push for the public option, all these other issue based things. is it possible to win over the voters that one w

>>the gains in coverage from the affordable care act obamacare are starting to decline. that's according to a new report from the cdc. it says the uninsured rate for americans people who don't have insurance ages, 45 to 64, jumped to 10.3% last year. and that's up a full percentage point from 2017. it also marked the first time a government study has shown in increase and the rate of people who don't have insurance since obamacare went into effect the uninsured rate serves as a gauge for president trump's impact on health care coverage. his administration is seeking to next dismantle every aspect of obamacare in the courts. the uninsured rate did remain stable for younger adults. >>the camera catches a bobcat on top of a our poll, they >>salient is bobcat a pretty good size bob katter got stuck on the top of a power pole this morning near naples florida yet wondering how much going to get down crews and utility truck tuesday, tall pole to gently you see there nudge the a. >>there's light is hanging on for dear and then does it is hang on he goes and shimmies on down. >>h

and not simply argue about obamacare or medicare for all.ealth care and let's talk about the real concerns that people have today which is health care costs too much for a dwindling and lower outcome that many other countries who pay far less in their gdp for health care. that's the issue we should be confronting but we should put the republicans on the defensive. saying what is your plan? right now their plan is to rip the affordable care act out from underneath the american public causing huge damage with no promise for any kind of reform going forward. that is a huge issue and in politics, guess what? a good offense is the best way that we can win. and we should be putting this party, the republican party, on the defense. and we're not doing that because we're spending all of our time explaining what is, in fact, medicare for all. >> i want to ask you, while i have you here about this historic field of women who are part of the larger democratic primary candidates. and you look at the polls and it is the men who are leading in the polls.

school shooting, obamacare. are just the historical events. think about advances in technology and science and travel. nuclear power, radio, airplanes, television, antibiotics. the internet, cell phones, and nearest and dearest to us in michigan, the automobile. changeld has undergone and each successive decade continues to accelerate, which might be scary for some. if they did not realize something about you, you are the best education -- i am sorry. you are the best educated .eneration ever this year, the year you have earned your diploma, yours is forecasted to become the largest generation in the united states. you,means you come all of are poised to shape the future of this nation in the world -- and the world. you are now on the driver's seat. is where do you want to go. the current generation has done better than the last. typically, the only variable used for this measurement is money. we know that money alone cannot guarantee happiness. it will not mend a broken heart. not prevent tragedy. it cannot conjure joy. the instinct to equate

it will simply overturn a regulation -- overturns part of obamacare. it overturns a regulation that allows states to innovate in the affordable care act marketplace and provides flexibility and consumer choice to health care consumers. house republicans continue to support pre-existing condition protections an offered solutions to give patient this is assurance. republicans stand ready to work with democrats in a bipartisan manner to pass these protections into law and also provide desperately needed disaster relief. i look forward when we can all gather around the negotiating table. with that, i urge a no vote on the previous question, no on the underlying measures, and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields. the gentlewoman from florida is recognized. ms. shalala: i yield myself the remained over my time. it was only 10 years ago that people who lacked employer-provided insurance and had pre-existing conditions could not find health insurance in many parts of this country. and those who could find health in

the president gets weak grades and now the justice department is suing to invalidate obamacare, and michael bennett makes it 21. the colorado senator weeks removed from cancer treatment joins the quest for the 2020 democratic presidential nomination. >> my plan is to run for president. i called my mom, and i said to her somebody has to be 22, and that's why i'm running, and it turns out i'm not. i'm 21, so i've already made a little bit of progress. >> we begin though with high drama in washington. the attorney general's capitol hill snub, a contempt threat, and the constitutional collision course now set in motion. this haymaker last hour thrown by the speaker of the house. nancy pelosi telling reporters in the capitol she thinks the attorney general william barr is a criminal. >> what is deadly serious about it is that the attorney general of the united states of america was not telling the truth to the congress of the united states. that's a crime. he lied to congress. he lied to congress. if anybody else did that, it would be considered a crime. nobody is above the law. not the presiden

what i want to do, obamacare is a disaster. of the individual mandate which was the worst part of obamacare. frankly, except for the one shaman who decided after campaigning for eight years to repeal and replace at 2:00 a.m. he walked out on the on the floor and went thumbs down. we would have healthcare repealed and replaced but i'm doing it a different way. we get rid of the individual mandate as part of the tax cuts and that's most important. we are now coming up with a much better plan than obamacare if we take the house back, keep the senate, keep the presidency, they will have phenomenal healthcare at a fraction of the cost. >> and you can have a plan on that. >> rinne put out a plan pretty soon. >> another one, drain the swamp. we talk about a lot of time. you think you've done that? >> if you have i think one of the things that's been incredible has been this witchhunt that went on and i think it's going on right now, the draining of the swamp, people are running scared. these were bad people. we had tremendously bad pe

are you obligated to fix obamacare first? >> well, we're obligated to make sure trump and the republicans do not though tens of millions of people off healthcare they currently are enjoying. here's the point, the current healthcare system is absolutely dysfunction. a you got 34 million without insurance, even more under insured, oldlederly people can't afford hearing aids, eye care. we manage to pay the highest prices of the world for prescription drugs. now i know that the healthcare industry, the drug companies, the insurance companies will spend hundreds of millions of dollars, including ads on nbc, attacking bernie sanders, attacking medicare for all. you look at the polling, the people support ped care very, very strongly. all we are saying you got a good program in medicare, expand it to everybody else, improve medicare for senior citizens. when we do that, we will provide comprehensive care to all people and do it by saving substantial sums of money. >> under your plan, we're eliminating private insurance, correct? >>

we are talking about obamacare for all illegals?omething america will sink its teeth into? >> who pays for it when they go to the emergency room. we have to pay for it because we are good people. we should find a way to acknowledge what is going and give people the healthcare they need and find a reasonable way to pay for it. if we keep sending people to the emergency room, that costs way too much for this country. we have to be realistic. >> laura: hundred of thousands ever homeless on the streets including too many just a couple of blocks from where we broadcast. it's so depressing! they are on the street in america. many u.s. veterans. but we are supposed to tell the taxpayers, it's 18 billion dollars a year now. the cost of full healthcare for 20 million illegals will be a lot higher. california just nixed 3 billion dollars for medi-cal. that was even too much for california. >> they tried this in vermont with a democratic governor, just to give healthcare to legal residents. chris is unfamiliar how this emergency thing works. t

voted for obamacare. the deal maker bringing folks to the oval office, and coming out with the deal, we haven't seen that to the degree i think he would even want to see, and oftentimes it's because of trump himself. he does -- has a habit of saying what the last person who saw him wants to hear. as many presidents have been known to do. so, yeah, it's -- i don't know if he's quite you know become the consummate deal maker, but he hasn't -- he has ideals for sure. >> christopher: so getting to his deal-making skills are going to be tested now that the democrats have control of the house. and talking about speaker pelosi , one of the things that the president is known for is coming up for a nickname or attacking a lot of folks who are in the public sphere. he seems to have left speaker pelosi alone in that regard. do you know why that might be, respect? fear? what are you thinking. >> carrie: it's absolute respect we've written the story about -- he is impressed with her ability to survive. and her skills

he's not backing away from one of the most polarizing elements of the obama-biden legacy, obamacare.we made historic progress. we extended health care to 22 million people who didn't have it before. we covered pre-existing conditions. i can go on with the list. you know it. health care is about peace of mind. how many people go to bed, staring at the ceiling, thinking, my god, if something happens to me, we are going to lose everything? >> also, tuesday, bernie sanders defending his controversial stance that domestic terrorists should be able to vote. if we are serious about calling ourselves a democracy, establish the right to vote is a universal principle that applies to all citizens. that did not sit well with presidential candidate, cory booker. >> we locked up more people frr marijuana in 2017 than all the violent crimes combined. we have a nation that takes away liberty and a way to vote. if he wants to get involve in a conversation whether dylan roof and the marathon bomber can vote, liberate black and brown people from prison. >> kamala harris joined teachers at a round table

jillian: donald trump firing a court request to get rid of obamacare, the white house arguing the so-calleddividual mandate that require americans to have coverage are unconstitutional. the administration is asking a federal appeals court to abolish the entire affordable care act law. rob: in honor of the national data for the president calling on violence against people of faith. >> in recent weeks people of faith around the world face terrible hardship. violence and terrorism against people of all faiths must end and must end now. jillian: the president hosting dinner for faith leaders, this morning they are set to attend a prayer service at the white house. kim jong un we 10 minutes after the era, donald trump has stopped short of military intervention in venezuela but does commit to ousting nicholas maduro? how can he do that without using force? our next guest have a possible answer. >> the letter was a bit snooty and i think was written by his staff. jillian: the new word taking twitter by storm. ♪ oh! oh! oh! ♪ ozempic®! ♪ (announcer) people with type 2 diabetes are excited about the