Mike Johnson

Many of us are skeptical about that now because the roots are so deep.

It was really sinister the way, in my view, the way it was created.

I believe Obamacare was created to implode upon itself, to collapse upon itself.

I think the people who drafted that, the architects of it, knew that it would not be sustainable because their objective was ultimately a single-payer system.

They wanted full government control of health care.

That's a terrifying prospect for those of us who believe in low-cost, high-quality care.

And so we have lots of ideas on how to fix it, but it is very, very complicated.

It involves a big percentage of the U.S.

economy.

Health care is entwined with somewhere...

I think it's 15% of the U.S.

economy is the health care system.

And you can't just rip it out at the roots and start over.

It's a very, very complicated series of measures and steps that you have to take to fix it.

Now, it takes a long time to build consensus in a legislative body to do those kinds of things.

And we have lots of plans on the table.

We have...

Whole caucuses who work on this around the clock all the time.

When I was the chair of the Republican Study Committee, which is the largest caucus of conservatives in Congress, back in the 117th Congress, we drafted a book this thick.

We worked on it for almost a year.