Healthcare debate now shifts to the Senate
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2017
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Both parties are celebrating yesterday's House bill to repeal and replace Obamacare. House Republicans are cheering because they were able to pass it. Democrats are happy because they think it's so bad. We look at the details… and the politics.
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point. |
| 0:07.9 | A Republican victory that might not last. |
| 0:14.8 | Hello again, I'm Arminolny, and this is To the Point. With some help from the President, |
| 0:19.0 | House Republicans have shown they can pass a bill, |
| 0:21.7 | but the GOP still hasn't shown it can govern. Some congressmen who voted to repeal and replace |
| 0:27.0 | Obamacare didn't have time to read the measure. Some senators say they'll start over from |
| 0:31.6 | scratch. Nobody knows what the House bill would cost or how many people would lose health insurance. |
| 0:38.2 | It's clear that tax breaks would go to the wealthy. Democrats already are targeting Republicans for next year's |
| 0:44.3 | midterm elections. How confident should they be? Later on today's talking point, Ivanka Trump, |
| 0:50.2 | a White House power whose new book is subject to ridicule rather than praise. |
| 0:55.9 | First, here's the news. |
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| 1:31.9 | Hello again, Mormon-Aulney, back with To The Point. Different reactions to yesterday's House bill to repeal and replace Obamacare. |
| 1:38.3 | House Republicans are cheering because they were able to pass it at all. |
| 1:41.8 | Democrats see political opportunity because they think it's so |
| 1:44.5 | bad. We'll look at the details and the politics. Today's talking point, Ivanka Trump, |
| 1:49.7 | may be one of the world's most powerful women, but her book, called Women Who Work, is being |
| 1:54.8 | panned as light on policy by many reviewers. First, this news update. The Texas legislature has passed Senate |
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