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Because he himself is very, very fortunate. his family is fortunate. he saw so many people at the hospital, families who could not pay for these skyrocketing medical bills. i think thats the point he has really drawn attention to. i was doing reporting with my colleagues yesterday on what would happen to a child like billy kimmel under the graham cassidy bill. one at childrens hospital said the open heart surgeries and other procedure that is a child would need would rack up the bills and easily...

>> let me tell you what i said. thats not in any way what i said. there are 30 million more people who have health insurance now than had it before the aca. that means that fewer people have had to make the incredible choice about whether or not they were going to buy groceries or buy medicine. that means fewer people were running into lifetime limits with a child that was born. i let you talk, now im going to talk. >> okay. >> they are now not having to run up against lifetime decisions with a ...

Limits with a child that was born, with -- i let you talk. im going to talk now. >> okay. >> they are now not having to run up against lifetime with a child. child did nothing wrong, didnt make bad choices. they were born with a problem. they are running out of a lifetime limit in the first year. those people have to make incredible choices. the choices they make still do not save their lives. there were more people caught up in that before the aca, 30 million more people caught up in that. befo...

There are other things to consider, but simply put, if your child is born with a congenital heart problem, there would be no lifetime limit on the cost of the care that they could receive. >> are there limits on sort of how detailed the plan is that people can get? people can get a cheaper plan but doesnt have as much coverage? >> what youre referring to, again, this does not repeal the essential health benefits. it still covers addictions and all the other things that you would expect. its prob...

Today we have the -- we honor of visions of our founders who risked everything. theyve risked everything. their lives, their liberty, t r their sacred honor to advance their life to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. a healthier life, the freedom to pursue your happiness. the freedom from being job locked or policy locked because of what the republicans want to do today. today we fight to preserve affordable health care as the right of every american, again, not the privileged few. toda...

Been rejected for coverage. you could have been charged a lot. you could have gotten coverage. but if you had asthma, you wouldnt get coverage for your respiratory system. high risk pools existed in 35 states in the past. but they had a lot of problems. they charged high premiums. they had waisting lists and they lost a lot of money. >> you have a great write on this. i would push them to cnnmoney.com, but you talk about wisconsin. you talk about paul ryan, the speakers own state where this was ...

Country. today, we have the -- we honor the visions of our founders, we can, who risked everything, they risked everything, their lives, their liberty, their sacred honor, to advance the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. the life, a healthier life. the freedom to pursue your happiness. the freedom from being job locked or policy locked because of what the republicans want to do today. today, we fight to preserve affordable health care as the right of every american, not the p...

So before the affordable care act, a child like jimmy kimmels child born with a congenital heart disease could use up the entire lifetime limit for insurance coverage, maybe in a week or two. i mean, these are the sorts of conditions that are imminently treatable but its expensive to treat them and you can go through hundreds of thousands of dollars in a matter of days or weeks. so even somebody with the resources of jimmy kimmel could ultimately be backgrounded by a lifetime of care. you know, ...

>> you bet. so before the affordable care act, a child like jimmy kimmels child, born with a congenital heart disease, could use up the entire lifetime limit for insurance coverage. maybe in a week or two. i mean, these are the sorts of conditions that are treatable. but its expensive to treat them. and you can go through hundreds of thousands of dollars in a matter of days or weeks. so even somebody with the resources of jimmy kimmel could ultimately be bankrupted by a lifetime of care. what th...

This is a guy who has spent career defending the independence of the judiciary understanding that hes a judge who is meant to interpret the law and not make the law which is what president trump and republicans have been talking about as a justice who is going to be smart, qualified in the scalia style someone who will look at every case as it comes along on its own merits based on what the law and constitution tells them. i think it would not be inconsistent for him to have said something like ...