'BradCast' 3/24/2017: (Guest: Journalist, health care reform advocate Jacki Schechner)
The Donald Trump, Paul Ryan GOP health care scheme to 'repeal and replace' the Affordable Care Act ('ObamaCare') went down in spectacular flames today, as the bill was pulled from the floor just minutes before it was scheduled for a full vote in Congress after Republicans failed to muster the needed votes for passage. Trump blamed Democrats. We're joined today to make sense of it all by Jacki Schechner, who served as the National Communications Director for Health Care for America Now, the nation's largest health care reform campaign during the Democrats' 2009 and 2010 passage of Obama's landmark health care insurance reform bill.\xa0 We discuss the politics of the GOP failure, Trump's press availability comments, where they go from here, and some of the real problems that still need to be fixed in ObamaCare.\xa0 But it wasn't all a disaster for Republicans this week. In the Senate, the GOP won passage of a bill set to allow Internet Service Providers to sell your online behavior to advertisers, and Trump officially gave White House approval for TransCanada's controversial KeystoneXL pipeline. But, as the President seems to have learned today, even that may not go as smoothly for him as he thought. Finally, Desi Doyen joins us with the latest 'Green News Report' on Trump's ill-informed push for coal, his hopes of dashing Obama's climate policies, and how the world is moving towards reducing carbon emissions anyway...