as i mentioned, i m not going to house intelligence committee has given the white house until monday it s given the doj. department of justice, we covered this yesterday, but i m not gonna get ahead or what they may or may not is up mit. possibly nothing? at least from where we stand we know there is significant reporting on this subject. something will be presented? i feel very confident of that. yeah. follow-up on coverage. of course. you were saying that people, if they can t get access to insurance, they don t have coverage. if you remove the individual mandate, you are going to have people who are not going to buy coverage. they re not going to buy insurance. so getting back to the congressional budget office score, would you concede that there will be some coverage losses, per happens in the millions? there will be millions that will not have health insurance as a result of what you re doing? well, again, sure, except you
band together to negotiate health care rates for all of their employees and reforming the medical malpractice system so that doctors aren t spending their time and patients money on unnecessary procedure. beyond the numbers, let s talk about real life examples of the cost of obamacare for some actual americans who the president heard from during his listening session yesterday. kim certicl a small business owner in arizona had her health care costs sky rockets from $389.89 a month to $809.15. carry kooey from colorado, whose youngest son is six saw her family s yearly insurance go from $1700 to $52,000 for a lower quality plan. and joel brown, a farmer from tennessee, saw his catastrophic coverage cost spike in the wake of obamacare from $119 a month to more than $500 a month. these are the stories that really matter to millions of americans suffering under obamacare. these are the stories at the top
people to buy plans they did not like that were mandated by the government in terms of what was part of the plan, what it can to cover, the deductible, et cetera, et cetera. and yet roughly two thirds of the people either paid a penalty or asked for a hardship exemption. they didn t do it. so the idea is actually if you could bring down costs and choices and allow people to find a plan that fit their budget that was tailored to their needs there is actually a higher likelihood they will find something they want at a price they can afford as opposed to right now custom is i get a plan that i m forced to buy that has a deductible that i can t afford but i have got a cute plastic card that i can wave around. get you coverage. if you show up at the emergency room hit by a bus you are not paying out of pocket to the hospital. you are going to have some sort of catastrophic coverage that willic sure you have insurance. thank you. that s a great advertisement for thank you. that s exact
act. we are working to bring reallily and better choices to the american family. if two other prongs of our plantain several additional reforms that will drive down costs and increase coverage. when you get down to it the congressional budget office office is to estimate affects on the budget. the focus is on what the office is really about, the cbo concedes the american health care act would reduce the definitity sit by $330 billion, and bring health insurance premiums down 10% even before many of the significant reforms in prongs two the three take effect. some of niece include expanding health care savings accounts, streamlining the process at fda so that medicines can get to patients faster. allowing health insurance to be sold across state lines, which increases competition and decreases costs. permitting small businesses to
have people in a lot of states who aren t going to have access to coverage because they can t afford it with the tax credit you re providing. there s an argument to the other side. no. you ve got 175 million americans that get their insurance through their employer. frankly, right now, they re the ones who keep paying higher and higher premiums because a system that was only supposed to help people get access and require them get a government mandated, government run health care has actually gone amuck. and so right now government run health care. medicare is government run. what s happening? they want you to get i think you need to get outside and talk to some of them. more and more medicare recipi t recipients aren t able to get coverage. it s one thing to have a card. it s another thing to walk into a doctor s office and them to tell you we don t accept medicare. the president s goal is to