here s the key answer to your question: practicing doctors never believed that. we already knew that insurance was a big interface that we had to deal with every day, that government had too many regulations on us already, that we wanted to take care of individual patients, but they weren t going to get the services they need under obamacare. every practicing doctor i ve ever spoken to was against this and surveys back me up on this. jamie: what i wanted to ask you is because you are not just a tv doctor, you have a very busy clinical practice. first, what have your patients been saying to you? what are their concerns? depending upon where the decision goes today, what s the one thing if it had to be rewritten that you hope america gets? i think patients are most concerned that their premiums are going to soar. if the individual mandate is struck today by the supreme court, predictions are that their premiums, my patients premiums are going to go up 30% to cover all the bells and wh
insurance companies ability to deny coverage based on preexisting conditions and set lifetime coverage limits an cancel insurance for people after they get sick and what they don t like is the complexity of the law, the uncertainty, the fact that some insurance companies are already raising rates in exceptionally of some of these provisions coming into force and michigan congressman fred upton says he and his colleagues will start trying to repeal the law, soon after taking control of the house later this week. part of our pledge, we said we d bring up a vote to right peel health care, before the president s state of union address. and we have 242 republicans, and there will be a significant number of democrats i think that will join us. reporter: folks at the white house are confident that even as the house votes to repeal the health care reform law, the senate will not follow suit. it is, after all, controlled by democrats and as the senate follows suit, the president will veto
stopping cutting out people with preexisting conditions, ending caps on lifetime coverage. these were supposed to be the selling points. and yet, somehow the public has connected those with this growth of government, out of control spending, and a lot of republican themes. republicans really seem to have outmaneuvered the democrats in this message war over health care. bill: byron, thank you for coming in, enjoy your holiday. byron york out of washington for us today. got a question about this or something else on your mind, fox news.com/ america s newsroom on the bya folder there, click on the box, leave your question or shoot me an e-mail, hemmer at foxnews.com, we re also on twitter at bill hemmer, one line, because you asked, bya, health care, pick your poison. juliet: so many ways to get in touch with you! it s wonderful, the technology today. the warnings are out, you need to know these warnings to protect yourselves against the dangerous flu.