Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Ronna Romney McDaniel defended the Senate GOP’s bill to repeal and replace ObamaCare and criticized Senate Democrats for having “no interest” in helping on healthcare reform in a Fox News interview Wednesday.

When host Neil Cavuto pointed out that the Senate bill has just a 17 percent approval rating, McDaniel responded, “Well the plan’s not fully out there yet,” and stressed that “Republicans are working to make sure the patient-doctor relationship is restored.”

“Voters need to know that Republicans are working hard to solve this problem,” she added. “It’s unfortunate that Democrats have no interest in solving a problem they created.”

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McDaniel told Cavuto that she thinks it’s possible for the controversial bill to get more support from Republican senators and a better score from the Congressional Budget Office, which said earlier this week that the new bill would leave 22 million Americans without health care by 2026.

“This is a real problem, so we have to get this done” she said. “It’s something we ran on. We have a majority in the Senate and the House and the White House, and we have to deliver.”

Senate GOP leaders were forced to postpone a vote until after the July 4 recess, after it was clear they did not have the votes from their caucus to proceed with the measure.

McDaniel pointed the finger at Democrats when asked how to counter arguments that Republicans “are out to destroy healthcare, kill hundreds of thousands of people.”

“We always have to remember the evolution of how we got here, it was the Democrats passing a bill 30,000 pages of legislation with no Republican input,” she said.

“Obamacare is failing, and we got here because Democrats put something in place that wasn’t sustainable,” she argued, “probably with the hope that we would end up with a single-payer system.”