'BradCast' 3/7/2017: (Guest: HuffPo's Ryan Grim on 'RyanCare')
b"House Republicans introduced their long-awaited health care plan on Capitol Hill late yesterday, and -- other than Donald Trump, who described it via Twitter as 'our wonderful new healthcare bill' -- the plan seems to be landing with a resounding thud in a number of quarters. Of course, Democrats oppose the new scheme to 'repeal and replace' the Affordable Care Act ('ObamaCare').\\xa0 Dubbed the American Health Care Act, Republicans have yet to have their new plan scored by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO), so we don't know how much it will cost or how many people will be covered by it or lose their coverage because of it. But, the more important push-back against the new plan appears to be coming from Republican members of Congress and the rightwing policy groups like Heritage Foundation and the Koch Brothers-funded Americans for Prosperity.\\xa0 They are calling it "ObamaCare-lite" and vow to block it, as our guest Ryan Grim, Washington Bureau Chief for Huffington Post reports today. He explains why the roll-out and the plan itself appear to be such a disaster, and suggests that Republicans, including House Speaker Paul Ryan and Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, have no actual intention of 'repealing and replacing' the Affordable Care Act at all. Grim offers a compelling case for why that may, in fact, be the plan of Congressional Republicans. Also today: Trump lied about requiring U.S.-made steel in pipelines like Keystone XL, and France dumps on-line voting in advance of their upcoming elections.."