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Now, this fellow laughed and said, my aunt is 101 years old, she doesnt really need maternity coverage right now. we should have a system, i believe, where you can choose to get the policies that meet your needs. the impact, especially for young people, of all the mandated coverage, you know, its interesting the democrats view -- theyre big on talking about insurance coverage. but its a little bit like giving everyone a bus ticket when there are no buses. what we should care about is access to h...

Ability to protect people with pre-existing conditions. were going to go back to the obscenities of where we were before obamacare was passed. >> could you clarify, will you support anything that doesnt mandate people with preexisting conditions continuing to have coverage? >> look, my response is, i said hundreds of times on the campaign trail, yes, we should repeal every word of obamacare, but if you listen to the next sentence, i always said, were not done yet with health care reform, and we ...

Care. in 2015, the same ten largest companies made $15 billion in profit. insurance company profits have doubled under obamacare. that was the result. bernie helped write obamacare. i dont think the federal government ought to be passing a law that doubles insurance company profits and while those profits were doubling, what happened to the average american family? your premiums have gone up $5,462. at the same time, the average deductible has gone up $5,000. for families that are struggling, yo...

With life-threatening diseases you cant do everything you can to save your lives. you and i would make news if we joined up on that. >> the major problem is they could double or triple the prices you pay for medicine tomorrow, and there is no legislation to control that. >> senator sanders -- >> oh, hi. >> oh, hi. >> so good to see you. we want to get to some of the questions from our audience. one of the most popular parts of obamacare as you mentioned earlier, requiring insurance companies to ...

Each of those elections was obamacare, and you know, were arguing here was argued in front of the american people. the democrats said over and over again, if obamacare is repealed, all these people are going to lose coverage. now thats not true, and were going to get into that. but that was the argument made to the american people. and 2010, 2014, 2016, i believe were a mandate from the voters. they said were tired of prime twrums going up. were tired of deductibles going up. were tired of losin...

And for six years democrats have been fighting, saying no changes at all even as people were hurting and losing their coverage. this is about hon aring the promises we made to the people who elected us. >> senator sanders? >> the truth is the republicans are now in a panic, because the american people have caught on that the absolute repeal of obamacare without improvements in it, without a plan for making it better would be an absolute disaster. so, when ted talks about giving people choice, he...

Preexisting conditions, youre going to make lure that thsure a mandated requirement. >> what ive said is virtually all of the republican legislation that has been filed that the democrats have opposed maintains a level of coverage so that the companies cant cancel coverage. what do the democrats say to the 6 million people who had their insurance canceled, who got a notification in the mail that you dont get to see your doctors anymore, and not just the people who were canceled. there are people...

So theres the individual mandate, how do you even force it, ho do you apply to it, who is exempted from it. there are instructions in the law of obamacare how the insurance plans must be designed. they have to cover maternity coverage, mental health services. how do you define that. thats up to the department of health and human services. and the president can give instructions on that. but he cant exactly dismantle obamacare on his own, but he can certainly roll back shof the regulations that h...

Without maternity coverage or without mental health coverage or insurance that would reinstate caps on cancer treatments is better? >> well, i dont know that thats what he was referring to. >> he said it would be better. if we, in fact, took away -- if we went to high-risk tools instead of covering people with pre-existing conditions or if we stopped the other coverage we have now, im just wondering if you define that as better. >> youd have to give me a specific -- >> well, let me -- >> what ma...

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 they were working that. that they were concluding that in their plans going forward and so we felt that was covered. >> and your bill takes away current benefits which include prescription drugs, mental health and substance use disorder benefits and maternity coverage among others. that is correct, right? >> again, its difference in the legislative are...