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Down thayer. >> sure, and, again, remember, the affordable health care act is playing out in the context of other things, like immigration reform, like the farm bill, things where theres been nothing but negativity, things like we hate what president obama is for. theyve got to start talking about it realistically. i was on a show where some republican said well, were for making sure that people dont get disqualified for pre-existing conditions. were for eliminating lifetime cap, et cetera, but ...

In the packet has been exclusively driven toward benefiting employer-based plans. >> but if youve got a bad insurance policy that doesnt corn all of your needs, if it doesnt cover mental health, it has a cap on an annual basis, a lifetime cap, if it has scluz for preexisting conditions, what good does it have for montanaens to have an insurance company come to montana with that bad policy. dont we have to have a national policy that if you have health sherns, it has to be comprehensive? >> thats...

That want to have that. thats a promise the president has kept and will continue to keep, i will keep as well. thats what were working towards. quite frankly on the other side of the ledger, republican colleagues want status quo. they are not looking to improve lives in terms of ability to improve health care. they would much rather see the old way, women discriminated against because they were women. people knocked off the rolls because they reached a lifetime cap, got no money from insurance c...

Across the board. >> but did you guys think -- when you were having these conversations, i would imagine that you were talking about the affordable care act every day, both in the white house and in the campaign. was there a sense there was going to be some iceberg you guys were going to hit where, look, these letters are going to go out, were going to have to deal with the fact that there will be some people who are seeing their plans canceled, or is the number bigger because insurance companie...

Take for example 3-year-old zoe lynn suffers from a congenital heart defect. remember her mom stacy spoke a year ago how without obamacare, zoes life would be in jeopardy. >> zoes third open heart surgery will happen either next yek year or the year after. if mitt romney becomes president, and obama care is repealed. there is a good chance she will hit her lifetime cap. there is no way we can afford to pay for all of the care she need to survive. when you have a sick child it is always in the ba...

Heart defect. remember her mom stacy spoke a year ago how without obamacare, zoes life would be in jeopardy. >> zoes third open heart surgery will happen either next year or the year after. if mitt romney becomes president, and obama care is repealed. there is a good chance she will hit her lifetime cap. there is no way we can afford to pay for all of the care she need to survive. when you have a sick child it is always in the back of your mind, and sometimes in the front of your mind. >> joinin...

Kaiser this week came out and said that for the first time in a decade, the insurance increases have slowed down by less than a third. and what -- what do we have. ing the fact of the matter, seniors are playing less for prescriptions. millions of americans are -- paying less for preventative care and have no lifetime cap. millions of young people are kept on their parents health insurance coverage until they are 26. the good is there. >> so -- angela, does the good outweigh the bad? >> the good...

Delay there has been between passing the law and actually seeing its provisions come into effect. but this went into effect essentially right away. >> this one went in last year. last year was the first year people got their checks. the year before, companies saw what they were doing and actually had to -- last year, for example, aetna in connecticut reduced their premiums by 10% in order to meet this. but, you know, there are other provisions in the law that have kicked in. no longer can childr...

Whose free mammogram caught her breast cancer before it had a chance to spread. its about the mom in arizona who can afford heart surgery for her little girl now that the lifetime cap on her coverage has been lifted. >> sam, i think i have a reason why the president hasnt been so great at this. he is obviously an inspirational speaker. ive said that a million times. its this. the real beneficiaries of this system of obama care are going to be those tens of millions of people who now rely primari...

Whose free mammogram caught her breast cancer before it had a chance to spread. about the mom in arizona who can afford heart surgery for her little girl now that the lifetime cap on her coverage has been lifted. its about the folks here today who got a little bit of relief. and im curious, what do opponents of this law think the folks here today should do with the money they were reimbursed? should they send it back to the insurance companies? do they think that was a bad idea to make sure that...