PUBLIC POLICY POLLING SPOKE TO A REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE OF
AMERICANS.
IT TURNS OUT IT IS NOT A POPULAR PIECE OF LEGISLATION.
LET'S GO TO GRAPHIC FOR.
ONLY 24% SUPPORT
THE BILL.
SO IT IS JUST AS UNPOPULAR AS THE PAST PROPOSALS.
IS INTERESTING BECAUSE RIGHT NOW THE SENATE GOP IS CATCHING
HEAT FROM ALL SIDES.
THEY ARE CATCHING HEAT FROM THE DONORS WHO WANT THEIR TAX CUTS
AND FROM THEIR CONSTITUENTS WHO DO NOT LIKE THIS LEGISLATION.
THEY DO LIKE THE MEDICAID EXPANSION AND SOME OF THE
PROTECTIONS LIKE THE PROTECTION REGARDING PRE-EXISTING
CONDITIONS THAT THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT PROVIDED.
SURE, DURING THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION EVERYONE WANTS TO
HATES OBAMA AND HOW MUCH THEY HATE OBAMA CARE, BUT WHEN PUSH
COMES TO SHOVE A LOT OF AMERICANS DO LIKE AND
APPRECIATE THE PROTECTIONS IT OFFERS.
THEY DID AT ONE POINT BOTTOM OUT AT 17%.
AND THE REASON WHY THIS ONE IS HIGHER IS BECAUSE
OF �
BECAUSE THEY HAVEN'T BEEN SCORED.
IN ALASKA EVERYBODY WILL KEEP THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT COVERAGE
BECAUSE THIS BILL WOULD ALLOW ALASKA � THE WAY TO GET THEM TO
DEFEAT OBAMA CARE IS BY TANTALIZING THEM BY
ALLOWING A STATE TO ENTIRELY KEEP OBAMA CARE.
LET'S TALK ABOUT THE VECTOR THAT WE USE TO FIGURE OUT OF
SOMETHING IS GOING TO BE POPULAR OR NOT.
SO THERE IS A COUPLE OF FACTORS HERE.
ONE IS PROPAGANDA, AND THE OTHER IS REALITY.
AN ISSUE WHERE THERE IS ALMOST NO REALITY, PROPAGANDA CAN
OVERWHELM.
WHEN REPUBLICAN IS SCARED, THERE IS NO REALITY.
IT IS NEVER GOING TO TOUCH THEIR PERSONAL LIVES.
WHEN YOU HAVE AN ISSUE LIKE HEALTHCARE WHICH IS VERY REAL
YOUR FAMILY IS EITHER GOING TO HAVE HEALTHCARE OR NOT.
DEPENDING ON THOSE NUMBERS, SOMEONE IN YOUR IMMEDIATE
FAMILY MIGHT DIE.
THERE IS ALSO STILL OVERWHELMING PROPAGANDA.
BUT THAT PROPAGANDA IS AT LEAST MET BY REALITY IN A CLASH.
NO MATTER HOW MUCH PROPAGANDA THEY DID � EVEN IF IT IS NOT
RACIAL, JUST A DEMAGOGUE TALKING ABOUT � OKAY, SO THAT WORKED.
TO MAKE OBAMA CARE LESS THAN 50% POPULAR FOR A LONG TIME.
NOW THOUGH IT HAS HIT A WALL OF REALITY WHERE PEOPLE ARE SAYING
WAIT, YOU GOT ME TO HATE OBAMA CARE BECAUSE I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND
IT.
THE VERSION IN KENTUCKY THEY ACTUALLY LOVE.
MITCH MCCONNELL CAMPAIGNED PRETENDING TO BE IN FAVOR OF IT.
BUT NOW WHEN THEY SEE THE ALTERNATIVE IT IS NO, YOU
ARE NOT GOING TO GET HEALTHCARE.
AND IT IS GOING TO COVER LESS STUFF AND 20 OR 30
MILLION PEOPLE ARE NOT GOING TO HAVE HEALTHCARE ANYMORE.
WITHOUT HEALTHCARE I AM GOING TO DIE.
IT IS JUST TOO MUCH REALITY IN THIS CASE FOR THE PROPAGANDA TO
OVERWHELM IT, HENCE 20% IS MISERABLE.
AND THEY ARE ATTEMPTING �
THEY ARE GOING ON TV AND TALKING IT UP.
WE REACHED A STRANGE POINT.
I WAS TALKING ABOUT MICHAEL SHURE TODAY � IN 1977, IF JOHNNY
CARSON HAD ARGUED WITH A REPUBLICAN SENATOR ABOUT � WITH
ALAN SIMPSON IN 1977 OR HOWARD BAKER ABOUT HEALTHCARE AND ONE
GUY GOING ON MEET THE PRESS AND CARSON GOING ON HIS SHOW, WE
WOULD'VE THOUGHT IT IS RIDICULOUS JOHNNY.
YOU ARE A COMEDIAN ON LATE-NIGHT TELEVISION.
DO YOUR INTERVIEWS WITH BURT REYNOLDS AND MOVE ALONG.
AND STAY OUT OF THIS LANE.
JIMMY KIMMEL'S WIFE WHO WAS THE HEAD WRITER ON THE SHOW HAD
A GREAT TWEET.
AFTER WHAT WE HAVE BEEN THROUGH IT IS OUT LANE.
LOOKOUT, WE ARE MERGING.
SHE IS THE HEAD WRITER ON THE SHOW.
IT WOULD'VE BEEN ABSURD WHETHER.
SO HE READ ABOUT IT AND HE
CARED ABOUT IT.
GOING ALONG WITH THAT, THE OTHER PART IS THAT YEAH, IT
WAS FAR FROM PERFECT.
I AM NOT IDEALIZING THE GOOD OLD DAYS, BUT THERE WAS AN ACTUAL
INTELLECTUAL DEBATE FROM TIME TO TIME ABOUT SOME ISSUES.
NOW THEY ARE ALL LITTERED WITH LIES.
WHEN CASSIDY AND LINDSEY GRAHAM TALK ABOUT WE ARE GOING TO HELP
THE RED STATES HERE, THE BLUE STATES HAVE BEEN RIPPING
YOU OFF.
PEOPLE SAY THE ONLY REASON THAT IS IS BECAUSE THEY SIGNED
UP FOR WHAT WAS AVAILABLE.
AND SOME OF THE PEOPLE WHO DEBUNKED THAT REPUBLICAN
LINE OR OTHER REPUBLICANS WHO ARE GOVERNORS OF STATES
LIKE OHIO AND MICHIGAN.
THEY SAY WE SIGNED UP FOR IT BECAUSE THE GOVERNMENT IS
HELPING TO TAKE CARE OF OUR CITIZENS.
SO WHEN YOU SAY THAT WE ARE UNDULY GETTING MONEY IN OHIO AND
MICHIGAN LED BY REPUBLICANS, BUT IS NOT TRUE.
THAT IS A LIE.
THE RED STATES ARE NOT GOING TO BE BETTER OFF, THEY WILL
EVENTUALLY HAVE THEIR MEDICAID CUT.
THAT IS A FACT.
AND THE REPUBLICAN GOVERNORS � LARRY HOGAN TOOK THE MONEY.
IT WAS � TURNING DOWN THE MONEY WAS JUST SPITEFUL AND AN
ATTEMPT-
I'M TALKING ABOUT ALASKA.
YEAH.
ADMINISTRATORS AND EVEN
THE DEEPEST RED STATES SAY THEY
ARE GOING TO CUT MEDICAID.
MAYBE WE ARE IN FAVOR OF IT BECAUSE WE ARE REPUBLICANS
AND ARE AWESOME, BUT THEY ARE IN FACT GOING TO CUT MEDICAID.
SO THEY ARE LYING AND IT IS A DIFFERENT DYNAMIC.
THAT IS WHAT LEADS TO FRUSTRATION OF SOMEONE LIKE
JIMMY KIMMEL.
JOHNNY CARSON I DON'T THINK WOULD BE IN A SITUATION TO
BURST OUT LIKE THAT BECAUSE IT WAS A DIFFERENT DYNAMIC.
SPEAKING OF DIFFERENT DYNAMICS, NOW THAT THEY HAVE SEEN THE
ALTERNATIVE, OBAMA CARE IS PULLING AT 54%, ABOVE WATER.
IT IS GAINING IN POPULARITY EVERY SINGLE DAY.
THEY ARE LIKE THEY TOLD ME OBAMA CARE WAS BAD, THEY DIDN'T
TELL ME THAT THEIR PROPOSAL WAS WAY WORSE.
IF WE LIVED IN A CIVILIZED POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT,
OBAMA CARE HAS PROBLEMS, MANY BROUGHT ON BY STATES THAT
WOULD NOT TAKE THE MEDICAID MONEY.
BUT ALSO AREAS WHERE THERE IS NO COMPETITION.
THEN THERE WOULD BE A CIVILIZED NORMAL DEBATE, THE KIND THAT WE
HAD AT TIMES IN 1977 ABOUT BUTTRESSING IT OR MAKING IT
BETTER AND FIXING THOSE PROBLEMS.
WHICH BY THE WAY EVERYONE INVOLVED WITH OBAMA CARE
THOUGHT WOULD HAPPEN.
IF OBAMA WAS PRESIDENT HE WOULD SAY GREAT, YES, FIX THOSE
PROBLEMS.
I LIKE, ONE SUPER LASTING.
YOU KNOW WHAT IS PULLING IT THREE TIMES THE RATE OF
REPUBLICAN PROPOSALS?
MEDICARE FOR ALL AT 60%.
MORE POPULAR THAN OBAMA CARE.
I THINK I HAD A GOOD IDEA.
IT INVOLVES READING MY LAST TWEET.
MY THOUGHT WAS THAT DONALD TRUMP, ANYTIME HE TWEETS ABOUT
ANYTHING HAVING TO DO WITH THE ACA AND REPEALING IT �
USE SUB
TWEET THAT AND YOU WRITE ESSENTIALLY WHAT I WROTE HERE
WHICH IS THE OPEN ENROLLMENT PERIOD TO SIGN UP FOR THE ACA
STARTS NOVEMBER 1, 2017, AND RUNS THROUGH 1215 AND THEN LINK
TO THE OPEN ENROLLMENT.
HE LITERALLY DOESN'T WANT PEOPLE TO SIGN UP.
IF WE CAN TAKE ANY TIME DONALD TRUMP MENTIONS IT, AND THEN USE
THAT TO REMIND PEOPLE HEY, DO YOU WANT TO SIGN UP FOR 2018, IT
WILL PROBABLY STILL BE THERE BECAUSE GRAHAM CASSIDY IS
DEAD NOW.
HERE IS HOW TO DO IT.
I THINK IT'LL BE A EFFECTIVE WAY TO COMBAT DONALD TRUMP.