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If you overturn it, you lose three to four million jobs. but this isnt just about the economics, lowering of costs and the rest. its not just about the 20 million people. its about the 155 million people who get their insurance through the workplace whose benefits from greatly expanded. no more preexisting medical condition. no more lifetime limits on the care your insurer provides. if you have a child, they can stay on your policy until 26 years old and no longer is being a woman a preexisting ...

Available to young adults up to age 26, that is correct, right? >> the bill that i authored did not include coverage up to age 26. the insurance companies have said that they were working that, that they were including that in their plans going forward, so we felt it was covered. >> and your bill takes away current benefits which include prescription drugs, mental health benefits, and maternity coverage among others, correct? >> its different in the legislative arena than the administrative aren...

Do you like tax credits that enable low and middle income folks to be able to afford insurance? they say yes. it turns out the actual elements are quite popular with america and theyre at a loss of what to do because taking down obamacare would take down health care for more than 20 million americans and decrease the integrity of insurance policies for the rest of america because for a lot of what made other insurance policies better than they were. getting rid of lifetime limits for example so ...

Satisfied with it as is or is there tinkering you would do with obamacare? >> any initiative, social security, medicare, medicaid, you always come back and say, in the implementation, what can you learn from, what can you do? american people have to know in overturning the affordable care act, the republicans will do very serious damage to medicare, very serious to medicare. exactly simultaneous with the ryan budget which would remove -- remove the guarantee to medicare. so the affordable care a...

Preexisting condition for the rest of his life. repeal of the affordable care act is a problem. lifetime limits is a problem. if youre a senior, almost half of medicaid is about long term health care. you want grandma living in the guest room? you repeal the affordable care act. you go along with -- this is part of an initiative that is part of the ryan budget, that says were going to voucherize medicare, were going to block grant medicaid. so this has a tremendous assault on the health and heal...

Politics is local. in this case, all politics is personal. so when leader schumer talks about the 75% of the people who get their benefits in the workplace, and that is so, they are affected by the affordable care act in that the cost, increase in premiums is the lowest it has been in the 50-some years that they have been tracking that. so it has contained costs. it has increased the benefit package, as the leader said, in terms of no discrimination in terms of preexisting conditions, no lifetim...

Personal. so when mr. schumer -- leader schumer talks about the 75% of the people who get their benefits in the workplace, and that is so. they are affected by the affordable care act in that the costs -- increase in premiums is the lowest its been in the 50-some years theyve been tracking that. so it is contained cost. it has increased the benefit package. as the leader said in terms of no discrimination in terms of pre-existing condition, no lifetime limits, no annual limits. you can stay on y...

Lifetime limits. thats a problem. if you are a senior, you know, medicaid -- almost half of medicaid is about long-term health care. you want grandma living in the guest room? you repeal the affordable care act. you go along with -- this is part of an initiative that is part of the ryan budget that says were going to voucherize medicare block grant medicaid. this has an assault on the health security and financial security that goes with what the affordable care act has done for the american peo...

So when leader schumer talks about the 75% of the people who get their benefits in the workplace, and that is so, they are affected by the affordable care act, in that the increase in premiums is the lowest it has been in the 50-some years that they have been tracking that. so it is contained cost. it has increased the benefits package, and as the leader said, in terms of no discrimination in terms of pre-existing conditions, no lifetime limits, no annual limit, you can stay on your parents prem...

Lifetime limits. that is a problem. if you are a senior -- you know medicaid, almost half of medicaid is about long-term health care. you want grandma living in the guest room? you repeal the affordable care act. this is part of an initiative that is part of the ryan budget. thats how it that says we are going to vouch her eyes medicare, we are going to block medicaid. so this has a tremendous assault on the health and health security and the financial security that goes with what the affordable...