that just means the obamacare taxes stay with obamacare. we're going to fix the rest of the tax code. reporter: does this portend other bad things? mr. ryan: i don't think so. i do not think it is prologue brother future things because members realize there are parts of our agenda where people have more agreement. we have more agreement on the need and nature of tax reform, on -- funding the government, rebuilding the military, securing the border. this issue had a big difference of opinion, not whether we should repeal and replace obamacare but just how we should replace it. and that is the growing pains of governing. we were a 110-year opposition party. where being against things was easy to do. you just had to be against it. now in three months' time we try to go to a governing party where we actually have to get 216 people to agree with each other on how we do things. we just weren't quite there today. we will get there, but we were not there today. reporter: are you going to move ahead with stage two and three legislation? also, you ca

and improving obamacare. but for the president to have to make obamacare worse and make people suffer, to say it doesn't work when cbo says it does work. that's not being president. >> listen to how speaker of the house paul ryan reacted. >> we were probably doing the democrats a favor, we were doing the architects of obamacare a favor by pass this law, and it's going to get worse. i don't think the architects of obamacare -- i'm sure they may be pleased now, but when they see how bad it gets, they're not going to like that either. >> go ahead and react to the speaker. >> well, again, obamacare is working for millions of people. that's why there was such an outcry when this he decided to repeal it. can it be improved some? of course. we've always said that. once republicans are taking repeal off the table, we're willing to work with them to improve t. but it's far better to have it than not have. 23 million people covered, preexisting conditions covered, college kids taken care of, women's care, seniors getti

that means the obamacare taxes stay with obamacare. we're going to fix the rest of the tax code. >> does this -- reporter: does this portend other bad things? mr. ryan: i don't think so. there are parts of our agenda where people have more agreement. we have more agreement on the need and nature of tax reform, on fund thinking government, on rebuilding the military, on securing the border this issue had a big difference of opinion, not whether we should repeal and replace obamacare but just how we should replace it. and that is the growing pains of governing. we were a 110-year opposition party. where being against things was easy to do. you just had to be against it. now in three months' time we try to go to a governing party where we actually have to get 216 people to agree with each other on how we do thing. we just weren't quite there today. we will get there but we current there today. reporter: are you going to move ead with stage two and three legislation? also, you can just talk about how the conference is feeling right now. mr

about repealing obamacare. someone named common sense, i think i'm going to take that name, tweets this for republican leaders. what have you been doing since it was passed back in 2010, and two, why weren't you ready to go on day one for president trump? >> one problem is that the democrats have been slow-walking a lot of the nominees. he hasn't had a lot of time to work with his team in place. now that he does have his team in place, they are moving on. conservatives have to decide whether they will do what is achievable and pragmatic care, or whether they will make the perfect enemy of the good here. the reality here is that a lot of the stuff in this bill, paul ryan doesn't like. he doesn't like the medicaid expansion, he doesn't like giving tax credits or tax deductions. if you were building a system from scratch, they wouldn't be in there. but he's not building it from scratch, he's building a system from obamacare. he wants to move gradually, pragmatically, a way this can get through both chambers of con

obamacare is a disaster. we are down. we learned that the fbi is investigating trump campaign operatives for potential ties to russia. here's my belief. it goes wherever it goes. no politicians can stand in the way. we should let the fbi do their job and what happens happens. >> cnn's polo sandoval is covering that for us. a lot of questions today and seemingly handling it well. he's comfortable in that setting. >> reporter: yeah, absolutely. at no point losing control of this as he took questions for about an hour and a half, wrapping up in the last few minutes. that question about, of course, russian involvement in the election was, of course, something that he did talk about and also, one of the ones that prompted one of the largest responses from the audience is one of the last ones, some of the audience members calling into question senator graham's vote on some of president trump's nominee and eventual appointments including secretary of education and secretary of state, several individuals even leaving the room but

this is our time to repeal obamacare. but it is not going to happen unless you guys are doing what you are doing today and you are going and telling them in person. so over there is where mitch mcconnell works. when mitch mcconnell was running for reelection his campaign theme was we are going to tear up obamacare root and branch. so i am looking at this crowd right now and i believe we are here to help him keep his campaign promise. so please, folks, i appreciate you coming here. i appreciate you taking the time. i appreciate your hard work. please remember obamacare is not going to go down unless you guys help put it across the finish line. with that, we are going to be bringing up -- >> that is what you broad me here for. >> thank you for coming and braving these temperatures. >> i have been doing events with freedomworks for about six years. one of the heroes of this movement has been a man who holds conservative, libitarian principles and unlike these guys waiting to be told by paul ryan what to do he came up with hi

obamacare is exploding. we couldn't quite get there. , very small number of votes short in terms of getting our bill passed. a lot of people don't realize how good our bill was because they were doing phase one. when you add phase two which was mostly the signings of secretary price behind me and phase three which i think we would have gotten, it would have been a good bill. premiums would have gone down and it would have been very strong. but we're very, very close and i think what will happen is obamacare will explode. it's going to be a very bad year. last year you had over 100% increases in various places, arizona, i understand, it's going up very rapidly again. like it did last year. last year was 116%. many places, 50%, 60%, 70%. i guess it averaged, whatever the average was, very, very high. this year should be much worse for obamacare. what would be really good with no democrat support, if the democrats want it to explode if they got together with us and got a real health care bill. i'd be totally op

this year should be much worse for obamacare. what would be really good with no democrat support, if the democrats want it to explode if they got together with us and got a real health care bill. i'd be totally open to it. i think that's going to happen. i think the losers are nancy pelosi and chuck schumer because now they own obamacare. their own it, 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 ceases to exist, which it will at some point in the near future and just remember this is not our bill. this is their bill. when they all become civilized and get together and try and work out a great health care bill for the people of this country, we're open to it. we're totally open to it. i want to thank the republican party, i want to thank paul ryan. he worked very, very hard. i will tell you that he worked very, very hard. tom price and mike pence who is right here, our vice president, our great vice president, everybod

you own obamacare. when you go into your midterm elections, it's on you that basically high insurance costs, part-time jobs all on the rise. obamacare reform bill has been pulled at the 11th hour. minutes after the vote was scheduled to start, president trump asked the speaker paul ryan to pull the bill. sent health care stocks soaring. let's bring in gerri willis with the latest. we're seeing health care stocks moving, but the dow really didn't take a hit. do you think that's maybe because now the president is saying i'm going to focus on tax reform? >> reporter: a very good point, it was a complete yo-yo day in the markets, let me tell you. dow down as much as 120 point, rallied in the end as the news came out that the bill was pulled, health care bill was being pulled. there's a lot going on and i want to break it down for you. the stocks have popped here. a lot of hospital stocks did well. tenet was up 8%. hca popped 8%, as we were getting news about the bill being pulled. health insurers up, 5%. if

so obamacare is exploding with no democrat support. we can't quite get there, we're just a very small number of votes short getting the bill passed. i think the losers are nancy pelosi and chuck schumer, because now they own obamacare, they own it. 100% own it. this is not republican health care, this is not anything but democrat health care and they have obamacare for a little while longer until it ceases to exist, which it will at some point in the near future. and just remember, this is not our bill, this is their bill. now when they all become civilized and get together, and try to work out a great health care bill for the people of this country, we're open to it. >> sir, is it fair for americans to let obamacare explode? >> there's nothing you can do about it. things are going to happen to obamacare, there's not much you can do to help it. i have been saying that for a year and a half, i said eventually, it's not sustainable. i said the other day when president obama left, 17, he knew he wasn't going to be here, 17 is going to be

that's driven by obamacare. driven by the mandates in obamacare. it's driven by the guaranteed issue, no consideration for pre-existing conditions. and it's drive be by mandate -- driven by mandates such as, you stay on your parents' health insurance until you're 26. it goes on and on and on. o.b. care. maternity. maternity coverage. contraceptive coverage. you can name it. also, no additional costs for your medical checkups. all of these things cost money. and they're built into the premium. every time you add another bell or whistle or accessory to your health insurance policy, the premium goes up and up and up. when the insurers find out they're losing money, they start to drop out of the marketplace. they drop out of the marketplace and when they do, there's less competition. when there's less competition, price goes up, mr. speaker. this is what we've seen happen over the years since the implementation of obamacare. it is a calamity. it will sink obamacare if we don't touch it. it will sink and it will be gone. it will implode upon itself. it

too much obamacare? too little obamacare? >> it's a mess. you can't have that discussion unless you know what the service costs. i go to the doctor, and i have a daughter that for a while didn't have insurance. she gets a different price than people who have insurance. i think we need more market spirits in competition. i certainly don't see it in this bill, but i do understand that repeal and replace would have been easier if there was a mandate. president trump won. we can argue about the mandate. >> right. >> there's a problem here. if you deal with the reality of politics, i understand phase one and phase two. if we want to fix it the correct way, i just think the politics are impossible to accomplish that. here we sit. >> yeah. what do you think of that, david? i think he's right. we may be a position that we can't fix this if one party isn't going to participate in the other party's bill. >> here's what i don't understand what's going on this week. we have the election where we learned that a lot of people are out of the job market, th

pence: obamacare has failed the people of kentucky. it has failed the people of america, and obamacare must go. [applause] vice pres. pence: now, the plan the president outlined in his joint address to congress is the plan we are working on. we will repeal and replace obamacare once and for all and replace it with health care reform that will improve the lives of every american and strengthen our economy. the truth is, ordering every american to buy health insurance not,ther they wanted it or was never the right solution for health care in this country. so we will repeal the mandates , and taxes and penalties of obamacare. [applause] vice pres. pence: we are going to end obamacare's individual an employer mandates. we will actually get rid of more than $500 billion in obamacare 's tax increases. [applause] vice pres. pence: and we are going to give americans more choices. we will expand health savings accounts, give americans a tax credit to help people buy plans they need at a price they can afford. we will make sure americans with pr

immediately repealing and replacing obamacare. we will be able to immediately repeal and replace obamacare. >> that was the president on repealing and replacing obamacare asap during the campaign. phil mattingly has more on where they go from here. what happened? how did it end up on the cutting room floor? >> reporter: a long way from last night where there was an optimistic atmosphere out of the conference meeting. it became clear early to paul ryan and other leadership that the votes weren't there. they worked on the conservative house freedom caucus, but by the time lunchtime came around the speaker made the cal lags, he had to go to the white house and tell the president that the votes weren't there. the votes weren't coming. and it was probably time to pull the bill. an interesting element is the president said he understood where the speaker was coming from but this was a loyalty test and this was something that could help expose some of those members that didn't necessarily appreciate what the leadership and what the white

that just means the obamacare taxes stay with obamacare. members realize there are other parts of our agenda that people have even more of agreement on on what to achieve. refund more agreement on -- on funding the government. this issue had a big difference whether we not should repeal and replace obamacare, but how we should replace it. are a ten-year opposition party were being against things was the easy thing to do. and now we try to go to a governing party, where we have to get 216 people to agree with each other on how we do things. get there, but we weren't quite there's a day. >> are you going to move ahead with -- and also house the conference doing right now? >> the conference is let down, the conference is disappointed. we were on the cusp of for filling a promise that we made, of achieving an ambition we had for seven years and we came a little bit short. this bill would have made phase two much better. nevertheless i think there are some things the secretary can do to stabilize things. for instance, risk pools, we think the sm

obamacare appealed that. they had a great risk pool in utah. all those are gone under obamacare. here's how they work and here's how our system would work. we would directly support the people with praises and conditions. let me give you a sense of the spirit of 1% of the people in these markets drive 23% of the costs. reinsurance program is to cover more than just the 1%, to cover the people with high health care costs. by having estate innovation funds to go to the states to set up these programs, we would subsidize the people. tech support for the people of pre-existing

number one, the bill repeals obamacare. number two, it repeals the obamacare taxes. it repeals the obamacare spending. it repeals the obamacare mandates on individuals and businesses. it has a medicaid per capita entitlementiggest reform anybody has seen here for decades. it nearly doubles the amount of money people can contribute to health savings accounts. that is a crucial part of conservative health care policy. i've been doing conservative health care reform for 20 years. years, have been arguing for equalizing the tax treatment of health care for all americans so we can have a vibrant, individual market so we can have choice and competition. there are two ways of fixing health care. have the government run it and ration it and put price controls. or do what conservatives have been arguing for years. having a vibrant, free market where people get to buy what they want. equalize the tax treatment. stop the discrimination of people who want to go out in a free marketplace and by the health care they are choosing. this does that and allows choices. the most importa

obamacare is collapsing. if we just did nothing, washed our hands of the situation, we would see a further collapse of the health insurance markets, so we feel an obligation to step in front of that collapse and replace this with one that works and that has more freedom, some people like it to be done a little bit differently, the point here though is we have an obligation. we made a promise to the people who elected us who would have, we would repeal and replace this law and basically said this is what we would replace it with and now we are keeping our word. >> dickerson: there have been so many people picking at different pieces and issues of it, on your side, the other side, cotton from arkansas, lindsey graham from south carolina have both said, let's slow down. why go so fast? that is. >> that is actually really puzzling to me, why go so fast? let me see, we ran for peel and replace in 2010, we ran on repeal and replace in 2012, 2014, in 2016, oh by the way we spent six months last year developing a rep

obamacare is collapsing. obamacaren obamacare isn't staying. if we did nothing, the law would collapse and leave everybody without affordable health care. we are doing an act of mercy that repealing this law and replacing it with patient-centered health care reforms that we as conservatives have been arguing for and fighting for for years. [ reporter asking question ] >> i don't think so. let me give you a list of what's in here that conservatives should be excited about. number one, the bill repeals obamacare. number two, it repeals the obamacare taxes. the tax relief for families for the cost of health care. it repeals the obamacare spending, like the subsidies. it repeals the mandates on individuals and businesses. ends funding for planned parenthood and sends to community health centers. a medicaid block grant. the biggest entitlement reform seen for decades. nearly doubles the amount of money contributing to health savings accounts. that's a fundamental part of conservative health care policy. it equalizes treatment of health care. i've be

did the bill repeal obamacare? no. he called it obamacare-light. did it bring down premiums? no. the premiums would continue to rise for at least three years. and didn't unite the publican party? of course it didn't. you suck conservatives and moderates in the house and senate oppose this legislation. it didn't unite our party. so i why didn't we move -- one with the goal post moves? when they didn't start with the legislation we all voted for 15 months ago, the same bill i introduced two weeks ago. what's to claim repeal in one piece of legislation and then a separate piece to replace obamacare. >> congressman jordan: >> chrise done that under reconciliation, there would be no subsidies to help people buy insurance or pay for their premiums and deductibles. no expanded medicaid. let me finish. no expanded medicaid to help those people. the result of a clean repeal is that millions of people who currently have health insurance coverage wouldn't. >> congressman jordan: the result of the claim repeal as we get rid of obamacare. >> chris: that has the subsidies and the expanded medi

virtually every promise of obamacare has been broken. we all remember the promises they made in 2010 when this was signed into law. they told us the cost of health insurance would go down, not true. they told us if you like your doctors, you can keep them. not true. they told us if you like your health plan, you can keep it. not true. here are the heartbreaking fax. payingamericans are $3000 more a year on average for health insurance than the day obamacare was signed into law. year alone, premium spiked by 25% and millions of americans have lost their health insurance plans and lost her doctors. in one third of the nation's counties, americans only have one insurance company to choose from, which essentially means they have no choice at all. peopleth is the american are struggling under obamacare every day, and so are small businesses like those so well represented here. you all know exactly what i'm talking about. the truth is kentucky is a textbook example of obamacare's failures. here in the bluegrass state, premiums skyrocketed by a

repeal obamacare. how about using the bill we all supported and then replace it with something we actually believe is going to lower health care costs. >> mr. jordan, can you talk for a minute, mr. jordan or mr. meadows. you said you met with the vice president, he said he's open to negotiation here. the vice president -- he said this is the bill. i hear all of you talk it sounds like you're trying to get somewhere where you can support a legislative product at the end of the day but as you just alluded to, mr. jordan, and mr. garrett said this, they wrote this in the dead of night so on and so forth so why would you trust them? >> well, of course we are trying to get to reveal obamacare. we know what a disaster it is for the american people. the american people spoke loudly and clearly on november 8, but i think mr. garrett's comments were exactly right. not just doing it, but doing it right. that is why we are going to introduce our legislation tomorrow. that is why we think the two pieces of legisla

that means the obamacare taxes stay with obamacare. we'll fix the rest of the tax code. reporter: what is past is prologue here? this portend -- >> this is not prologue for other future things. members realize other parts of the agenda people have even more agreement on what to achieve. we have even more agreement on the need and nature of tax reform on funding the government, on rebuilding the military, securing the border. this issue had a big difference opinion, not whether we should repeal and replace obamacare, but just how we should replace it. that is the growing pains of governing. we were a 10-year opposition party. we're being against things was easy to do. you just had to be against it. and now in three months time we try to go to a governing party where we have to get 216 people to agree with each other how to do things. we weren't just quite there today. we will get there but we weren't there today. reporter: bloomberg. are you going to move ahead with phase two and three, hhs phase two and phase three legislation and also, if you can talk about how the conf

obamacare as well. what i would be concerned about are the republicans, because the reality is, it's a numbers driven game and moving this legislation passed the finish line. if you are someone like speaker paul ryan, you can only afford 21 defections, i think the house freedom caucus has around 30 members. if you're some like majority leader, mitch mcconnell, they need 51 to support this legislation or 50 with vice president pence being the tiebreaker, given that it's going to be moved forward to the reconciliation process. i has around eight senators who have skepticism both conservative and moderate. that's important for the leadership to move this past the finish line. >> jon: can the president and republicans afford to have this thing go down in flames? if it doesn't get changed, is this their best shot and maybe their only shot, at least in this legislative session? >> yeah, because they fused the reconciliation process, because republic is in the senate don't have a filibuster proof majority. if

will repeal obamacare. well, you know what? we are out of excuses. the time for talk is over, and now is the time for action. and i have to tell you that i think that failure is not an option. if republicans take this opportunity and blow it, we will rightly be considered a laughingstock. so we can't do that, and i will tell you that the leaders who have been here, and the leaders who have been addressing you today have been on the front lines fighting to take the house plan which has a lot of problems, and to try to make it real repeal which gives you real control over your health care. i believe that we can get it done. i can tell you in the last week, four days i have been at the white house meeting with the president, with the vice president, and the administration, and house members, and with senators and saying that we have got to get it done, and with your support, you are all here to talk to your elected representative, and the most important message for all of us to hear from you is that we have to

when they do that, they will be touching parts of obamacare. so we will see smaller changes, but nothing on the scale of having a vote today. >> speaking of tax reform, the president spoke about moving on to that next potentially. what does today's lack of success for health care -- how does that speak to the chances of tax reform moving forward? molly: it is unclear at this point. tom rooney said as he was walking out of the meeting, what does this mean for us going forward? he said i don't know. we are in uncharted territory. i don't know. we were sent here to govern and we failed. the republicans need to regroup, get back together, and move forward with tax reform, the president -- something he wanted to pass. he talked about it a lot on the campaign trail. members right now are going home and they are not very happy. >> the house leadership pulling the health care replacement bill today. molly hooper of "the hill" joining us to talk about it. thank you for being here. >> c-span's washington journal, live every day with policy issues that im

that just means the obamacare taxes stay with obamacare. we're going to fix the rest of the tax code. >> you don't think what is passed is cruel, portends bad things? a >> i don't think this is prologue for other future things. members leel eyes there are other parts of our agenda people have even more agreement on on what to achieve. we have even more agreement on the need and the nature of tax reform on funding the government, on rebuilding the military, on securing the border. this issue had a big difference of opinion not whether we should repile and replace obamacare, but just how we should replace it. and that is the growing pains of governing. we were a 10-year opposition party, where being against things was easy to do. you just had to be against it. and now in three months' time we tried to go to a governing party where we actually had to get 216 people to agree with each other on how we do things and we weren't just quite there today. we will get there, but we weren't there today. yeah. >> i just had something. i wonder if you're

the casty collins plan which is basically if you like obamacare, you can keep obamacare. there's the leadership plan that was brought forward which i believe when you look through it is obamacare in a different form. and then there's our plan, the one that i think is consistent with what we told the voters we were going to do. repeal obamacare, replace it with a market-centered, patient-centered, doctor-centered plan that actually brings down the cost of insurance, brings down the cost of healthcare and provides affordable insurance for all americans. think about this, we put on president obama desk a bill that repealed obamacare, got rid of every single tax, got rid of the mandates, and now the first thing republicans are bringing forward is a piece of legislation that we're going to put on a republican president's desk that says we repeal it but keeps medicaid expansion and actually expands it, that keeps some of the tax increases. that's not what we promised the american people we were go to do. our plan, repeal it, clean repeal like we all voted on before, separate le

obamacare has just been a broken promise. instead of meaningful health care, we have higher costs, less races, and more mandates. right now, we have the government making decisions about our health care, not patients and not doctors. as a mother and a woman, the most important thing about my health care is being able to pick out the dr. i feel comfortable with. unfortunately with obamacare, we have less choices. one third of counties and five states only have one choice of health plan. that tells us we are not getting the choices that americans deserve. the problem is getting worse. we have more insurers saying they are going to leave the marketplace. i think the other thing that concerns me is hearing from providers. many are faced with dealing with regulations and mandates instead of focusing on high-quality care and spending time with their patients. they are forced to deal with regulation. i came to d.c. because i was so concerned about the direction our health care was going in because of obamacare. . i want to be part o

we're going to repeal obamacare. the congressman was watching 60 times, more than 60 times the house republicans voted to repeal obamacare knowing that it didn't really matter because obama was in the white house and he wasn't going to sign it, never mind the senate. but now he's not in the white house and now they have a republican in the white house, all of whom promised over and over again to do this. so that's the political reason that they felt that they had to tackle this immediately. and then the process reasonrom repealing obamacare will contribute to foigiering out a way to do tax reform which is probably going to be less controversial with house republicans, but you never know. >> i think it's interesting to say $300 something billion. i'm going to ask kingston, i asked you during the break are they really going to go home with this becausethets a good question. i know there were some heart wrenching stories that were told tonight and meetings, but they don't really answer to those people. they go home to t

many are not adequately covered by obamacare. there is a rise in premiums and they find that they are responsible and the deductible is so high. this is a situation that cannot continue. doesn't coversion folks. medicalo have chronic ,llnesses, like breast cancers most of the treatment was as an outpatient and most physicians don't except medicaid. the medicaid expansion hasn't covered them. they are still paying extremely high premiums and -- >> they don't even reach it. they don't even reach their deductibles and it is unfortunate. bill that read the has been produced and is coming out of the house and i really like a lot of the changes. i think it will correct a lot of the issues that obamacare has had. i really appreciate that. >> i am from wisconsin and i am a nurse and a mom. i am part of a huge group of middle-class families that were impacted. we had insurance that was canceled and i had written a letter to our senator that asked jobif i should quit my completely, a job that i love at a hospital that i love, or do i and t

we have a new obamacare bill. do you think the different factions will come together in the house because you have the freedom caucus and the republican senate committee conservative folks who think it's another entitlement and i want to give you a chance to respond to comments on cnn on people buying an iphone or health care and some people not suggesting the way it came out and suggesting those in the lower-income brackets will have to give up things to make sure they're covered. >> what we're trying to say and maybe i didn't say it as smoothly as i could but people need to make a responsible choice and i believe in self-reliance. we want people to have access to an affordable product. if they have a pre-existing condition or healthy it's smart to do it. what i don't like the individual mandate to force people. as an american you have to make forces and you have to make decisions and where to make investments. in your health care maybe a health savings account which the plan that introduced is heavy on. those ar

this is still obamacare. we're still talking in terms of exchanges and mandate and tax credits which were created under this immoral entitlement. nancy pelosi mouths her high horse and she talks about the immorality of this republican bill, this is a response to obamacare which should have never taken place at all. democrats had several options what they can do with a stacked congress and democratic president and they chose this. they rammed it through. it was designed to fail. it would return into single payer. to david's analogy, what's happened now, republicans are -- i don't think this is a great plan. now they have to use a tourniquet. the patient is losing a leg. the democrats are complaining because ne now he can't wear pa. >> timing is everything. you got people approaching the half way mark by the time easter passes. now you would have gone five months or so by the time you wake up, you've lost time. well beyond the enrollment eperiod. you're talking tax credits with people who don't need them. you h

but that just means the obamacare taxes stay with obamacare. we're going to go fix the rest of the tax code. >> this portends bad things -- >> i don't think so. members realize there are other parts of our agenda that people have even more agreement on on what to achieve. we have even more agreement on the need and the nature of tax reform on funding the government, on rebuilding the military, on securing the border. this issue had a big difference of opinion, not whether we should repeal and replace obamacare, but just how we should replace it. and that is the growing pains of governing. we were a ten year opposition party, where being against things was easy to do. now in three months time we try to go to a governing party where we have to get 216 people to agree. we weren't there today. we will get there. >> house speaker paul ryan reacting to the fact he couldn't get the votes to get the healthcare replacement bill passed today. this is a disappointing day for us he said. doing big things is hard he added. but he did admit that we will be l

it repeals obamacare's taxes, it repeals obamacare's spending, it repeals obamacare's mandates. it creates a vibrant market where insurance companies compete for your business, where you have lower costs, more choices, and greater control over your health care. and it returns power. this is most important. this returns power from washington back to doctors and patients. back to states. this is what good conservative health care reform looks like. it is bold and it is long overdue. and it is us fulfilling our promises. so i encourage everyone to go online and read our bill at readthebill.gop. are there any questions? christina? [ inaudible question ] >> as you know, we have this bottom up process that's been over a year long. last year we assembled working groups from committees of sxwlkz a jurisdiction and any republican who wants to participate. then this year the committees have been leading a process all year long, briefings, listening sessions, conferences, committee hearings. and we've got a lot of feedback from members over that process. our chairs, walden and brady, ways

let's not forget, obamacare is collapsing. obamacare is not staying. if we did nothing, the law would collapse and leave everybody without affordable health care. mercyn byng a act of replacing this law with health care reforms that we as conservatives have been fighting for for years. conservative groups -- [inaudible] >> let me give you a list of what is in here that conservatives should be excited about. one, it reveals obamacare. two, it feels the obamacare taxes, a massive tax relief for families. the obamacare spending, medicaid expansion, and obamacare subsidies. onreveals obamacare mandates individuals and businesses and ends of funding for planned parenthood and sense that funding to community health centers. it is a medicaid per capital block grants, the biggest entitlement reform for decades. " amount of money people can contribute to health savings account, a fundamental part in a crucial part of conservative health care policy. equalizes the tax treatment of health care. i have been doing conservative health care reform for 20 years. for 2