White House spokesman Sean Spicer defended the process of repealing Obamacare on Tuesday by saying Republicans have created an open process that will give all members input, as opposed to the way Democrats passed Obamacare seven years ago.
“One of the things that’s important to understand about this process that’s very different from when the Democrats did it,” Spicer told reporters “I think there’s a big difference. This is the bill. It’s right here, it’s on the website. We’re going through regular order.”
“Everybody can read it, and it’s going to go through what they call regular order. We’re not jamming this down anybody’s throat,” he added. “It’s going to go through a committee process. All parties involved, all representatives of the House will have input into it.”
“I think that’s the way to conduct this process,” Spicer said.
“When it was done the last time, it was jammed down people’s throat,” he added. “And look what happened. You had 974 pages that people struggled to read afterwards and figure out what had just gotten passed, and the consequences were frankly devastating.”
Spicer spoke near a small table displaying the Obamacare bill, and the much shorter bill Republicans are hoping to pass into law. He said the longer Democratic bill shows Democrats worked to impose government control of all healthcare, while the shorter bill shows the U.S. is about free markets and free choice.
