John Kasich: House GOP Didn’t Necessarily Fail on Health Care, They Just Didn’t Find Best Solution

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KASICH: "Jake, I think when you get in the middle -- look, all these folks that run for office, many of them, and I said this during the presidential campaign. I said, did you ever notice how many people make promises and then when they get elected they don't deliver on them. It's because once you get there and you understand the gravity of the situation, it's difficult. And again, I don't want to have somebody saying the Republicans failed, no? I think what they're doing now is saying we don't have the best solution. And when we looked at everything here, we didn't have anything that really made sense. But I think it's very clear, two points. One is the insurance markets need to be stabilized. And there are efforts that can be made to do that. It should be done on a bipartisan basis. I think there are senators willing to do it. Number two, on the issue of entitlements. We can't continue to have entitlements grow and eat up greater and greater portions of the budget, and Jake, here's the thing. I think our debt is about 80% of our gross domestic product, gdp. When it gets up higher and higher, it means we have slower economic growth. But you have to reform entitlements, you don't have to go and cut them. You need to get them on a glide path just like we did when we balanced the budget in the late '90s. This whole business, if Republicans go home and say, we did our darn best, but here's the thing. We don't want to cut people off who really need health care, we will slow the growth of health care. I think it's a winner. I don't think they need to go around apologizing for it, just say what they found. It's okay. Life is short."