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Speaker 1: Yet another Obamacare repeal went down in flames thanks to

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Speaker 1: Republican Senators John McCain, Susan Collins, and others. And it

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Speaker 1: should not be apparent to everybody that there never was

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Speaker 1: any desire to repeal it. Senator Collins, a main blamed

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Speaker 1: her opposition on proposed Medicaid cuts. She said that it

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Speaker 1: was unacceptable to make structural changes without hearings. Her thumbs

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Speaker 1: down came to spite. Senators Lyndsay Graham's and Bill Cassidy's

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Speaker 1: offered to bribe her to boost federal healthcare funds for

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Speaker 1: her state by to win her boat. She still said no.

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Speaker 1: Democrat Leader Chuck here Schumer is gloating. He says, once

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Speaker 1: the repeal bill is officially off the table, the Democrats

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Speaker 1: will work with Republicans to bail out Obamacare. That means

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Speaker 1: the insurance companies. He wants to find a compromise with

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Speaker 1: Republicans that stabilizes healthcare markets. That's the insurance companies. That'll

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Speaker 1: mean higher premiums, not lower. You watch now, for years,

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Speaker 1: I've told you what compromise means. In Washington, Republicans fall,

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Speaker 1: and after they cave on their principles, they joined Democrats

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Speaker 1: to enact whatever the Democrats wanted in the first place.

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Speaker 1: So here we are. Republicans control the majority of state governments.

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Speaker 1: They control the House, they control the Senate, they control

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Speaker 1: the White House and the agencies of the federal government.

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Speaker 1: And the Democrats a losing party. It barely elect local

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Speaker 1: dog catchers, but they control the Republicans and their agenda prevails.

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Speaker 1: It's surreal, but that's just the way it is. Voters

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Speaker 1: be damned.