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Appropriately. the cbo numbers do not lie. we know they are going to have 24 to 25 million people lose health care. that is without a doubt, okay? but lets talk about some of the other things including rollback of the medicaid expansion. i have patients that come to my clinic now that have never seen a doctor as adults because they have never had health care but they work every day because they couldnt afford health care. now with the medicaid expansion they can get preventive services. lets not...

Insurance. would you live with that if thats in the final draft? >> well, there is no final draft. >> but thats my question, congressman. if its in there because it sounds like its going to take that to get some of these freedom caucus members to yes, could you vote on that? >> im not going to speculate. what i can tell you is as the husband of a cancer survivor, pre-existing conditions and making sure that families that are going through the same thing that my family went through 17 years ago d...

Bicameral way because i think we have to reform the system and im concerned about the exchanges and about the fact in rural america, as you know, chris, in many places theres only one insurer in the market. >> right. so congressman, you had an interesting trajectory on this bill. you represent a district that went for hillary clinton, you were originally a yes on this bill, youve come on my show to talk about it and defend it and then you were a no on the bill. can you walk me through what chang...

Changed your mind? >> certainly. in the commerce committee i voted to make sure there was no denial of coverage based on pre-existing conditions, that people could stay on their parents policies, no lifetime cap and making sure the expanded medicaid was in place at least until 2020. i was not on ways and means that dealt with the tax portions and i dont think the refundable tax credit, chris, were generous enough and i dont think we found the funding for that. and then the cbo score came out and...

The key point here is the lifetime cap, right? >> yes. >> the policy basically says -- and folks are familiar with this, you spend a million dollars and then thats it, for your life, its done. affordable care act got rid of that. if that lifetime cap existed, you would have just been out of luck. >> yeah. we would have been out of luck. >> judy, youve got a story about the affordable health care act and a condition called black lung that affects a lot of people here. i want to talk about that af...

He cant speak. and just our being able to have him -- we have him at home. and our insurance, you know, he does -- he has medicaid but not all doctors are taking the medicaid. >> let me ask you this. the key point here is the lifetime cap, right? >> yes. >> the policy basically says -- and folks are familiar with this, you spend a million dollars and then thats it, for your life, its done. affordable care act got rid of that. if that lifetime cap existed, you would have just been out of luck. >>...

And just our being able to have him -- we have him at home. and our insurance, you know, he does -- he has medicaid but not all doctors are taking the medicaid. >> let me ask you this. the key point here is the lifetime cap, right? >> yes. >> the policy basically says -- and folks are familiar with this, you spend a million dollars and then thats it, for your life, its done. affordable care act got rid of that. if that lifetime cap existed, you would have just been out of luck. >> yeah. we would...

Normally do, to get a sense of how much people are going to be covered and how much this is going to cost. so whats happening is, they are creating, manufacturing a health care crisis that really doesnt exist right now. >> ron,ky put that number back up on the screen. i wonder if theres another way of looking at this. that they would keep and improve is at 51%. one of the criticisms from the right is this republican replacement plan they say would keep the basic infrastructure of obamacare. it w...

To come out? >> yes. this is our daughter, lauren. shes 30 years old. she has cystic fibrosis and she needs the provisions of the aca including pre-existing conditions and no lifetime limits to survive. >> whashg, what do you want to say to tom reid given your daughters situation? >> wed like to encourage mr. reid to seriously consider. we know that repeal is going to happen, okay so, lets get a reasonable replacement, a repair for obamacare. lets take care of provisions that are so important to...

Health insurance because of a pre-existing condition and you cant be charged more for your health insurance because youre a woman and your health insurance cant put a lifetime cap on what youre allowed to need because of your health care. and 20 million americans got health insurance because of president obama and for the first time ever, the number of uninsured people in our country in single digits, more than 90% of the country has health insurance now. and quietly along the way, yes, he did a...