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Know of anywhere where theyre actually offered. so if you want to buy insurance, to cover the unexpected situation you would terminate a pregnancy for any reason, youre probably out of luck. now think for a minute about what the republican party is saying here. they are making it clear, they are quite willing to intervene in a private health insurance market, not to make sure people have basic package of care, not to control spiraling health care costs, not even to make sure that poor people are...

That poor people are getting covered. no, they will intervene in the market in order to stop insurance companies from offering coverage for illegal, constitutionally protected medical procedure. a party that does that is a party that is committing political suicide. and if you think that is hyperbole or doubt that, consider this. even the right-wing governor of michigan, republican rick schneider, did not want his party to pass this into law. he passed a similar measure last year, saying, i dont...

What were seeing this year is a lot of businesses have already stopped hiring because of these laws and the implementation of these laws. its unlikely theyll go out and hire tomorrow because theyre only put off a year. they listened to the people of america, they would say listen, lets go back to the drawing board, or in this particular instance, they would have said lets not do it at all. >> brian: yeah. and by the way, its going to hurt us. big company, corporations like ours offer health insu...

Hard-working middle class families the security of affordable health coverage and care they deserve. can president obama go out to places like iowa, and ohio, and colorado and sell this message and use it against you? >> look, the president has to completely embrace the totality of the act that he passed, a massive tax hike that has done what? it was promised that it would bring costs down. it hasnt brought costs down. people were promised that they would keep the doctors that they had. theyre n...

Well, we as a small business are in such a pool that we cannot spread these costs around. one of our employees had cardiac bypass surgery about eight years ago. well, the next year when the insurance company got these legitimate medical bills, our premiums went out the roof the next year. so to keep offering coverage to our employees, we had to do two things. first of all, we had to raise our deductibles from $250 to $3,000 for an individual. and secondly, we used to pay 100% of the premiums for...

Businesses that move quickly to hire today will get a bigger tax credit than businesses that wait until later this year. this tax cut will be particularly helpful to small business owners. many of them are on the fence right now about whether to bring in that extra worker or two, or whether they should hire anyone at all, and this jobs bill should help make that decision that much easier. by the way, i would like to note that part of what health insurance reform would do is to provide tax credit...

As you probably know, more than half of small businesses no longer provide health insurance at all to their employees. well, why is that? our premiums for our business over the last ten years tripled. this is a huge cost for our business every year to pay these health insurance premiums. well, why are our premiums so high? well, we as a small business, are in such a pool that we cannot spread these costs around. one of our employees had cardiac bypass surgery about eight years ago. well, the nex...

Right now about whether to wring in that ex-- bring in that extra worker or two, or whether they should hire anyone at all, and this jobs bill should help make their decision that much easier. by the way, id like to note that part of what health insurance reform would do is to provide tax credits for over four million small businesses so they dont have to choose between hiring workers and offering coverage. the second thing this bill does is to encourage small businesses to grow and to hire by p...

Someone whos been out of work at least two months. thats a tax benefit that will apply to unemployed workers hired between last month and the end of this year. so this tax cut says to employers, if you hire a worker whos unemployed, you wont have to pay payroll taxes on that worker for the rest of the year. and businesses that move quickly to hire today will get a bigger tax credit than businesses that wait until later this year. this tax cut will be particularly helpful to small business owners...

Insurance over the ten-year period after the bill was enacted. so, you know, trump was making a lot of sacrifices in pursuit of this broader victory, this win. he wanted something that he could claim as a big victory in his first 100 days. unfortunately, hes not going to get it on health care. he will look now to tax reform and other issues. but, you know, thats going to be very difficult, too. >> mary agnes kerry, you have a better handle on health care policy on law than with anyone i have eve...