Koch-backed group pressures Republicans to speed up Obamacare repeal

In an interview with CBSN's Elaine Quijano, the Koch-backed Americans for Prosperity President Tim Phillips warns that Republicans who don't act quickly on repealing Obamacare could lose their seats in the 2018 midterm election. Phillips also outlines his group's biggest policy differences with the White House and the Republican-led Congress.

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[j.anderson]

If your people are coming out in Town Hall meetings telling you not to get rid of something they want. Why the hell are you on this show telling politicians to ignore what their constituents want them to do?

[teresareeves]

your goal is to leave people without insurance.

[johnvalk]

Mitchell Lawrence Free market will lower the costs, I doubt, because the main purpose for insurance companies is making profit. Affordable medicare is mainly based on solidarity, a system where everyone pays for insurance, as we do in the Netherlands. We introduced the market system years ago in the Netherlands and many people are not happy with it. It also delivers a lot more administration for doctors, hospitals, that are dealing with all those different ensurance companies. Before that ensurance was mainly a government business with one office