aware. at one town hall meeting we had 1400 people and at a second we had 900 people and so yes i ve tried to discuss these matters with constituents in the district. yes, and this is genuinely commendable, we ve lauded you on it for this program. many colleagues did not. those town halls happened before the bill legislation was introduced? am i correct? certainly we had our principles but yes it was before the bill was introduced. so if i were in your district and i were on the exchange making $20,000, 60-year-old old and saw my out-of-pocket cost going up $7,000, i didn t know when you had the town hall, now that the bill exists i do know that, do you see why it might be important to have hearings or exchanges with constituents? i have a series of exchanges with constituents and will continue to do so and i hope that we are improving the system because the system needs improve. so many constituents have come
commendable, we ve lauded you on it for this program. many colleagues did not. those town halls happened before the bill legislation was introduced? am i correct? certainly we had our principles but yes it was before the bill was introduced. so if i were in your district and i were on the exchange making $20,000, 60-year-old old and saw my out-of-pocket cost going up $7,000, i didn t know when you had the town hall, now that the bill exists i do know that, do you see why it might be important to have hearings or exchanges with constituents? i have a series of exchanges with constituents and will continue to do so and i hope that we are improving the system because the system needs improve. so many constituents have come into our offices in new jersey indicating that the that it s unaffordable for their health care plans and that their deductibles have increased dramatically, their co-pays have
congressman steve king of iowa and congressman, a lot of your colleagues, particularly the more conservative colleagues in the house and senate are in open revolt at the pace and process with which this bill is being considered. are you one of those individuals? i m not in open revolt but i am concerned about us not being able to get some of our conservative principles plugged into this legislation. so i m with those folks on the policy side of this thing but not on the revolutionary side. let me ask you this did you feel the affordable care act was passed too quickly? we fought it for a long time but in the end it was jammed through us and these are the words i ve longed use by hook, by crook and by legislative shenanigan and the democrats will admit that, i borrowed those words from them. but the considered analysis of the public is what we need to have and that needed to happen under obamacare and it needs to happen now. we don t need to be in such a
everybody in this country my best everyday and my best judgment and i think that we ought to have an opportunity to bring amendments to this legislation. they ve got a ways to go before they can say they re close enough to have enough votes to, let s just say, make the pitch that it s the only train and it s leaving town. that s what i think we ll soon hear out of the whips team. but we should not be advancing refundable tax credits. in the end you re borrowing money from china and saudi arabia and the american people to put that money out front. we re better off to make everybody s premiums tax deductible. that s one. is it important to see what the scoring you re talking about the deficit there. deficit spending. is it important to see what the cbo scoring is? that is important, yes. but we know that the cbo scoring was way off on obamacare and so we re confident since cbo scoring isn t so great it wasn t way off.