By Greg Halbleib

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Health care and repeal and replacement of Obamacare dominated the early portion of a town hall teleconference conducted by U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Taylorville) Monday night.

Davis said he was disappointed that House members of both major parties and even the Senate didn’t work together to improve health care coverage.

“Being able nationwide to put a larger risk pool together and offer their members better, cheaper, more affordable accessible health care coverage,” Davis said. “Those are the things that we believe are going to lower costs, and now because we had Democrats not help us and some of my own party, we’re not going to be able to do that and we are stuck with the broken status quo.”

Davis also suggested a wait-and-see approach when asked if the House Intelligence Committee could lead an impartial investigation into Russian interference in the November election after controversy over White House communications and committee chairman Devin Nunes, asking to give Nunes a chance.

“I do believe we can get a fair and balanced investigation, and if we see that we can’t, I’ll be the first one to stand up and say let’s take it a step further,” Davis said.

Davis said the framework for tax reform is in place.

“The goal is to make the individual code fairer, flatter and simpler,” Davis said. “Our initial plan would reduce from seven tax brackets down to three and lower the rates. Right now, 75 percent of all Americans do not itemize.”

Davis took questions for about one hour.