Obamacare Lives To Die Of Natural Causes – Ep. 237
The Peter Schiff Show Podcast
Peter Schiff
4.6 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2017
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
* Earlier I talked about the Trump honeymoon, and my belief that it wouldn't last long, in fact I thought it might have ended before the marriage began with the inauguration
* It did carry on a bit after that, but it seems to me that the honeymoon is ending now
* Today, the attempt to repeal and replace ObamaCare went down in flames
* That's something I had predicted a while ago; I said that I doubted that they would be able to repeal Obamacare and it turns out that I was right
* They didn't do it
* In fact, President Trump threw a Hail Mary late in the negotiations by threatening the Republican holdouts: "Pass this bill or else."
* He basically said, it's this or nothing - If you don't replace ObamaCare, you're stuck with the consequences
* I think that was a bad gamble for the President to have made, in fact as soon as he issued that ultimatum
* I thought that was going to be a problem because I didn't think the conservatives were going to buckle as a result of that threat
* And they didn't
* Now, not only has the bill been pulled, President Trump is in a very awkward position because he's already said
* Take it or leave it
* And Republicans left it
* Now how does he come back to the negotiating table?
* Now, if he comes back, he doesn't have a lot of credibility
* I still think it would be better if he went back to the negotiation table
* I think it was a bad tactic for Trump to say, "It's my way or the highway
* I think that if this bill doesn't succeed, they should try again
* They should recognize the problems in the replacement bill and work harder to fix them
* The problems is a lot of Republicans don't have the stomach for real reform
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| 0:00.0 | The Peter Ships Show |
| 0:09.1 | Well I've been traveling most of the week which is why I haven't been able to do a podcast |
| 0:13.3 | before today but I certainly have quite a bit to talk about. |
| 0:16.8 | Early on I talked about the Trump honeymoon in my belief that it wouldn't last very long. |
| 0:23.9 | In fact I thought it might have ended before the marriage began with the inauguration but |
| 0:29.5 | it did carry on a little bit after that but it seems to me that the honeymoon is ending |
| 0:34.6 | now. |
| 0:35.9 | Today the attempt to repeal and replace Obamacare went down in flames and that's something |
| 0:42.4 | that I had predicted a while ago. |
| 0:44.1 | I said that I doubted that they would be able to repeal Obamacare and it turns out |
| 0:49.8 | that I was right. |
| 0:50.8 | They didn't do it. |
| 0:51.8 | In fact, I think President Trump threw a Hail Mary latent in negotiations by promising |
| 0:58.7 | or threatening rather the Republican holdouts past this bill or else. |
| 1:03.9 | He basically said, look it's this or nothing. |
| 1:07.0 | If you don't vote to repeal Obamacare and replace it with Trump care then that's it. |
| 1:15.2 | We're stuck with Obamacare and I think that that was a bad gamble for the President |
| 1:20.1 | who have made. |
| 1:21.1 | In fact, as soon as he issued that ultimatum I thought that it was going to be a problem |
| 1:25.4 | because I didn't think the conservatives were going to buckle as a result of that threat |
| 1:31.3 | and they did it. |
| 1:33.1 | Now not only has the bill not passed or they pulled it, I guess, because they knew the |
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