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
and that s the bill i d like to see go from the house which it s passed in the past over to the senate and set it on mitch mcconnell s desk so we start fresh. i say we have a bad foundation, we need to start fresh and rewrite this thing from a fresh start without being encumbered by some of the base work in obamacare. and if there are good pieces of that, we can put them back in by consensus rather than try to save something. how many people in your district are on the exchanges, congressman? i don t know that number. you may have that in front of you, chris, but i don t know that number. it s about 11,000 or so. do you know what s going to happen to them under this replace bill? have you talked to constituents? particularly in rural areas who are going to be paying more on out of pocket under this plan? of course we don t have that data because we just got a look at this bill that s been offered. i have a whole series of proposals that i think we should do but i will say on ba
last time. if you re looking to the cbo for accuracy, you re looking in the wrong place. the reason trumpcare proponents are moving so quickly is simple with each and everyday that passes, the list of people and institutions opposed to their bill, which already includes the aarp, every democrat on the record, and many congressional republicans, gets even longer. look, no one likes this bill hospital, doctors, governors, conservatives, liberal, non-partisan groups and, most of all, the people who will no longer have affordable health care. this graphic shows some of the non-partisan groups that have come out against the bill. in a remarkable move the chief medical officer for medicaid has come out against it as well. andrey ostrovsky says despite political messaging from others at awhich he is, i align with the experts from aarp in the opposition to the health care act.