would be ended if republicans got that passed. that lawsuit by 20 republican-led states that s pending in the courts right now to eliminate all of obamacare, it hello also explicitly and specifically seeks to remove preexisting conditions. republicans are desperately trying both in congress and in the states and through the courts to kill coverage for preexisting conditions. that s what they re actively working on. don t listen to what they say. watch what they do this. is what they re doing. and they used to think this was great politics. it s clear that it s not great politics anymore. the electorate is now absolutely opposed to them on this and really cares about health care as an issue heading into this election. so now there is this weird thing happening, in hotly contested races all across the country, where republicans who have been inveighing against the evils of obamacare for years, who have been vote fog kill obamacare for years, who have been supporting these efforts, active
i support forcing insurance companies to cover preexisting conditions. actually, under florida governor rick scott, his state is suing to allow insurance companies specifically to no longer cover preexisting conditions, but nice try. i m fighting to protect preexisting conditions. here s the truth. kevin cramer voted for guaranteed coverage for preexisting conditions. i m taking on both parties and fighting for those with preexisting conditions. everyone agrees we re going to protect preexisting conditions. i want the voters to know i m committed to protecting people with preexisting conditions. i m fighting for it. i fought for it, and i voted for it. nope. martha mcsally, no, you did not. you actually voted to get rid of obamacare, including its protections for people with preexisting conditions. so did you, ted cruz, texas senator up for reelection. so did you, dean heller, nevada senator up for reelection.
as i mentioned, obamacare, the affordable care act, it got 20 million more americans health insurance coverage who didn t have it before. that s a popular thing, right? it s better to have health insurance than not. but the single most popular element of obamacare, the affordable care act, is this thing about preexisting conditions. this critical part of the deal that was struck to pass obamacare where it became a new rule for health insurance companies that they can no longer deny you coverage, and they can no longer charge you extra for your coverage just because you have a preexisting condition. that is a very popular provision of the law that gets rid of what was a huge and devastating and sometimes fatal flaw in what used to be the american health care system before obamacare reformed it and achieved this deal. that preexisting conditions thing is also infinitely relatable. everybody knows someone who has a preexisting condition of some kind, if you don t have one yourself. senato
cost of prescription drugs. talking about if you have a preexisting coverage that you can preexisting condition that you can get health care coverage. we are talking about the fact that corporate profits are soaring and paychecks are flat. talking about college affordability, women s reproductive health. saving not only our economy, but our democracy. and that is resonating with people. let me ask you a campaign question. have things changed about allocating money between organizing, television and digital? many people think there s lots of lost opportunities in 2016 in that way. is it being deployed differently. we spend $0 on television. made a conscious decision early on. i want to make investments that pay dividends today and dividends tomorrow. we purchased 94 million cell
collapsing. premiums have sky rocketed. it s certainly within our ability to bring the premium us down. maine did it. they instituted preexisting coverage. they premiums doubled. they didn t repeal it. the sup planted it with invisible higher risk pools. the cut yums premiums in half. how do you get it done? you had several iterations and couldn t get it done. what do you think might work in your own party let alone with the democrats. it what i ve already announced in my committee homeland security, senate oversight committee, we re not the committee of jurisdiction to write lending legislation. i come from a manufacturing background. there s a problem solving process you go through, starting with information. in this alternate universe, if you get information it s at the tail of the process. we re going to thoughtfully go