let me put up what the american medical association just said. the largest argument of doctors in the country. it said, this bill will result in millions of americans losing access to quality afford ability health insurance and those with preexisting health conditions facing the possibility of going back to the time when insurers could charge them premiums that made access to coverage out of the question. are they wrong, alice stewart? yes, they re wrong. let me refresh everyone s memory when president obama said if you like your doctor, you can keep it. that s not true. when he promised greater access to health care and lower costs, that s not true. in addition to what kay leigh said, many counties in this country have one health care option. that s not greater access to care. and aetna just announced they re pulling out of virginia. the access to quality health care has gone down. can i just say i m not finished yet. let her finish. i ll let you get in here. let her finis
dropping out. that would leave people with zero options. one-third of u.s. counties, they have one insurance option. we know lots of doctors, when you go in to i let you finish, let me finish. $800 billion will be cut which affects poor people and women. jonathan, let me finish. when you go into doctors offices and they have the big sign, we do not accept medicaid, there are millions of people who are on medicaid. they can t find a doctor who will take it. insurance coverage is one thing. care is a different thing. this is a bill that will bring care not just coverage. it will throw the cbo, the kaiser family foundation, not the people who are rhetorically talking about the free market, those people have the facts. who is that is what is going to happen to tens of millions of americans. who am i hearing sigh? is that neera?
before anybody even knows what it is, that s not good democracy. that s not doing our work for our constituents. we shouldn t rush this thing through just to rush it through for some artificial deadline. let s get this thing done right. how is this anything but hypocrisy? it s not hypocrisy. the cbo has already scored 90% of the bill. that s a good one. we can laugh or have an intelligent discussion. they scored 90% of the bill. they haven t scored the additional provisions that have been added. this isn t the final vote on the bill. it will go to the senate, it will come back, and we ll have a cbo score at that point. i want to correct for the viewer inaccuracies. this allows people to discriminate against people with preexisting conditions. the text of the bill bars that word by word. that s not a viewer cannot possibly say people will lose coverage when in fact it gives the secretary discretion to allow states to have higher pools, like in maine, which are high functio
health care system came out opposed to this bill, because it will drop coverage for millions of people. doctors said people with preexisting conditions, asthma, basic health care conditions, like asthma, any kind of condition that was a preexisting condition will now be able to be discriminated against. so, you know, pupd its on tv can tell you things like, oh, it was so bad before. this bill got worse in order to pass the house. it got worse by beyond dumping people off health care, 24 million people, then being particularly cruel to people with preexisting conditions. let me put up what the american medical association just said. the largest argument of doctors in the country. it said, this bill will result in millions of americans losing access to quality afford ability health insurance and those with preexisting health conditions facing the possibility of going back to the time when insurers
amendment today which said they re going to add $8 billion to this for those that decide to opt out. $8 billion provided by that, upton s amendment, will only help over 76,000 people, cover 76,000 people, which is a small fraction of the 130 million americans with preexisting conditions. it will cost $100 billion. that was one of the most shameful and cynical things about this whole process, aside from not letting the cbo score it. they pretended to many people who will be desperate and out of luck, this epretended that $8 billion will solve it. it will cost at least $100 billion. it only covers the the amendment covers 4% of people with preexisting conditions. 96%. the vast majority are not going to be covered by that. it was just a cynical attempt to give coverage, and give talking points to people on tv. the reality is, i m sorry, i m going to trust the american medical association, doctors and