Fox News host Martha MacCallum challenged Sen. Dave McCormick (R-PA) to present the Republican health care plan after he blamed Democrats and the Affordable Care Act for rising costs.
During a Tuesday interview, McCormick acknowledged that "health care costs have gone up dramatically," blaming it on former President Barack Obama's signature law.
"It was supposed to deliver better quality, lower prices, and access," he said. "It's failed on all three of those."
"I mean, what do you say to those, since you brought it up, what do you say to those who say, look, we're not going to extend these subsidies... but who say to Republicans, where is your plan?" MacCallum wondered. "Where's the plan that the American people can kind of get their hands around and say, well, if I'm not going to get my subsidy, I'm going to pick option B?"
"I think there's a short-term plan and a long-term plan," McCormick replied. "In the short-term, we're still wrestling with how to deal with this."
"We should try to find a way to make sure that working families, those that are living paycheck to paycheck, get incremental dollars in their pocket as these subsidies roll off," he continued. "But the current plan that the Democrats have, a three-year extension of the existing subsidies, this is rife with fraud."
"At the same time, we've got to reform all of health care because, as I said, Obamacare is a disaster."
MacCallum noted that President Donald Trump seemed to be "sort of glossing over the issue and saying it's not that bad."
"Well, the president knows his message better than anybody, but what I would say is he won Pennsylvania because of working families," McCormick insisted. "Nobody has a better finger on the pulse for working families than President Trump."
