O’Reilly: Healthcare Chaos in the Senate Is Embarrassing the Country 

Despite holding a majority in the Senate and campaigning vigorously on repealing and replacing Obamacare, Republicans in the past week have repeatedly failed to pass a new healthcare bill. 

“This healthcare chaos in the Senate is simply embarrassing for the nation,” Bill said. 

Bill recognized the need for checks-and-balances and a variety of opinion. 

“What we have here is political gamesmanship,” Bill said. “And there are certain Republican senators -- like Lisa Murkowski in Alaska who the Wall Street Journal just scorches today, and I don’t think she’ll be re-elected – who are just basically hypocrites. And they’re afraid to cut back entitlement spending because they’re afraid they’re going to lose. Well, Ms. Murkowski is making a huge mistake because she’s going to lose for not cooperating on the repeal of Obamacare.”

Bill said he’s not sure if the Republicans can ever pass the “skinny” repeal of Obamacare that just gets rid of certain mandates and taxes. 

“It is devastating to me as an American citizen, not as a journalist, to watch how dishonest this whole process is,” Bill said. “Who’s looking out for you?” 

Bill said it was obvious that Obamacare was not the long-term solution to America’s healthcare problems.

“Insurance companies don’t want to be part of it,” Bill said. “Doctors don’t want to be part of it. Many, many millions of working-class people are paying far too much for health insurance because others are being supplemented.” 

The Medicaid spending under Obamacare is out of control, and “limits have to be imposed,” Bill said.

“But because they want to buy votes with entitlements like Medicaid – they being the Democratic Party and some Republicans – nothing ever gets done." 

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