“The president asked us, ‘Are you ready? Do you have a fight in you?’ He didn’t need to ask us that question,” Pelosi said.
“They want to repeal it and then try to hang it on us. Not going to happen. It’s their responsibility, plain and simple.”
“They’re going to own it, All the problems in the health care system are going to be on their back.”
“If you are repealing, show us what you’ll replace it with first, and then we’ll look at what you have and see what we can do. They’re repealing it. We’re not. It’s their obligation to come up with replace first.
“Republicans are stuck. For years, they’ve promised every conservative group in America that they’ll repeal the ACA ‘root and branch.’ Until today, they could make those extreme promises without suffering any consequences because they knew Democrats or President Obama would ultimately block any rollbacks in ACA,” Schumer said.here's the real laugher
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said that Obama encouraged Democrats to work with Republicans on health care ― but only if the GOP’s plan would achieve levels of insurance coverage similar to what the Affordable Care Act provides, which none of the GOP proposals so far has ever aimed to do. “If they have in their replace something that works and gets results, then we shouldn’t be opposed to that,” she said Obama advised them.
The largest and most influential organization of American physicians has sent two stark messages to the Republican Party: Don’t mess with Obamacare until you know what you’re putting in its place. And don’t do anything that would backtrack on the law’s most important accomplishment ― bringing the number of uninsured Americans to a historic low.
The American Medical Association delivered these messages on Tuesday, in an open letter addressed to congressional leaders of both parties. But its intended audience was GOP leadership and members President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming administration who have said repealing the Affordable Care Act would be their first order of business.
Two days into the new congressional session, GOP leaders have already started the legislative process that would eventually allow them to kill Obamacare, by stripping out its funding and spending with simple majority votes in both houses. Vice President-elect Mike Pence met with GOP leaders, including House Speaker Paul Ryan, on Wednesday to discuss strategy and rally rank-and-file members.
But Republicans have promised for nearly seven years that they could replace Obamacare with something better, and even party leaders acknowledge that they have no consensus on how to do that.
