Rep. Chris Collins (R-N.Y.) said during an interview early Monday that ObamaCare is “the law of the land” and that House Republicans are moving on to tax reform after the GOP’s effort to repeal and replace former President Obama's signature healthcare legislation died in the Senate.

“We now have ObamaCare for the foreseeable future, with all the problems we have especially in the individual marketplace,” Collins told CNN’s "New Day."

Collins said that he and other moderate Republicans met with Democrats last week but that they were unable to work out a compromise on healthcare.

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“We’ll tweak something a little bit here or there, but we need more money to do this, we need more money to do that,” Collins said of the Democrats’ proposal. “It was all a joke and frankly a waste of our time.”

He said there was nothing more House Republicans could do on healthcare and that they will focus on tax reform instead.

“The insurance companies are going to have to deal with what they’re going to have to deal with because we tried,” Collins said. “We tried to fix this thing and it didn’t play out.”

“We tried to fix it, not a single Democrat stood with us when we tried to fix it,” Collins added. “And now they’re going to say it’s our fault? You know, give me a break.”