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Okay, this holiday season, our family collectively, okay, we embraced it, not knowing if douglas would be around for another holiday to spend with us. there is no way that i would have put forth the effort to reach out to the community and ask for help. if we knew that, you know what? hes got coverage. this is absurd. >> the state medicaid official told us its their policy to make phone calls, not send letters because they have over a million patients and its a cost issue. but youre saying no on...

>> and, kim, time is of the essence? >> it most definitely is. okay. i will be very blunt in stating, okay, this holiday season, our family collectively, okay, we embraced it, not knowing if douglas would be around for another holiday to spend with us. there is no way that i would have put forth the effort to reach out to the community and ask for help if we knew that, you know what, hes got coverage. this is absurd. >> kim, the state medicaid official told us its their policy to make phone call...

I will be very blunt in stating, okay, this holiday season, our family collectively, okay, we embraced it, not knowing if douglas would be around for another holiday to spend with us. there is no way that i would have put forth the effort to reach out to the community and ask for help if we knew that, you know what, hes got coverage. this is absurd. >> kim, the state medicaid official told us its their policy to make phone calls, not send letters because they have over a million patients and its...

They should move forward with it. what senator hatch is saying is simple, if you do that you trun risk of political backlash when democrat desire it in 93, it was the right thing when clinton passed that. it helped us grow. republicans did it in 2005. there might abpolitical switch. what i hear e.j. saying that is a risk they have to take. at the end of the day the country could care less about all of this. they want an answer and at the end of the day jobs will decide this midterm election. >> ...

Risk of political backlash when democrat desire it in 93, it was the right thing when clinton passed that. it helped us grow. republicans did it in 2005. there might abpolitical switch. what i hear e.j. saying that is a risk they have to take. at the end of the day the country could care less about all of this. they want an answer and at the end of the day jobs will decide this midterm election. >> were going to come back and talk about the political fallout. i want to ask a point i brought up. ...

I want to ask a point i brought up. number one goal in health care reform was to bend the cost curve to bring down costs. the likes of warren buffett and others said they arent. it should have been a cost issue, expand access later. whats truth, what is fiction? >> there are a lot of measures in this bill to hold down costs. some of them are painful which is why its hard to assemble votes for this. there will never be enough cost controls for everybody, and the more you put in the more votes you...

A significant concession. because what youre doing is this is not something that we have as a giveaway to the south koreans. this is u.s. national security. this is to contain china, this is to send messages that were engaged in asia. relationship with japan and y south korea. so this enhances america national security, it is not like a cost issue as you mentioned. the president is always wanting to reduce troops in germany, he wants to reduce troops in south korea, all around the world, but, yo...

They need to figure out how to pay for things in this bill. one of those things, the child tax credit was boosted to $2,000. more importantly, at least from a voting perspective, they also boosted the refundability from $1,100 to $1,400. interestingly enough, the obamacare individual mandate, that will be repealed through this bill, not through the health care process that failed earlier, but through this bill. the estate tax, something a lot of republicans have talked about repealing for years ...

Coverage because theyre out of work, too sick to work or cannot afford it. >> my husband lost his job three years ago. there was a time we were unemployed. we were told we had no choice. >> when you look at this overall, as a consumer, someone who uses it, what grade would you give our health insurance system? >> i could probably say about a c. >> c. all right. >> maybe a b minus. >> one of the things that comes up, erin, obviously, when you hear from someone like valerie is obviously people wit...

Thats why unions, jehmu, till industries like they killed steel, like they killed big auto. like theyre killing airlines and right now, what were going to have is if they have to go back to the nlrb and put that plan back in washington theyll slowly kill the aircraft manufacturing industry. >> and then. >> then youll see what happens to the the middle class and the lack of jobs. >> jehmu. >> and hold on one second. >> because of unions. >> hold on one second. jonas, you dont think its a job issu...