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This bill has negative impacts on children, on families, on seniors, on people who dont have a whole lot of income. so we cant continue to move forward as a country if we continue to undermine the people who need the support the most. thats why it doesnt make sense for this to move forward in this way. it might get 217 votes, but again, there is a spike in the football at the 50-yard line. thank god we have a united states senate who will get the score and the numbers of exactly what this will c...

To put that coalition together because evers has their own best way of doing it. you have to find a way to do it that brings a coalition together with a majority of the house and a majority of the senate to pass it. i look forward to giving the senate that opportunity to make additional reforms. >> so what will the senate do? how will the senate treat this bill? is there a working group that is -- thats already been established as weve heard, again, right now thats jim clyburn, the assistant dem...

This was the amendment that would add $8 billion over five years to help people with preexisting conditions in states that waive coverage in favor of high risk pools. is that enough money to cover those people? >> absolutely not. it is not nearly enough money in the first two years of the affordable care act, we had a preexisting condition program that allowed people who had preexisting conditions to get coverage and we ran out of money in the fund. thats why it was important for us to have the ...

Oppose the measure as it stands right now? >> the house republicans have take an bad health care plan and made it even worse and if it does pass out of the house today, there are those of us who are going to continue to speak up about what a bad bill this is. it hasnt, of course, been scored by the congressional budget office because its been rushed through. but the last scoring that they did on the first proposal, told us that it would increase insurance premium, it would rip health insurance a...

Experts and ive studied this the last two months say we need close to $200 billion to be able to pay for the high risk pool. were going to charge seniors five times more. seniors arent people in the 50s. this is a bad bill. i wish it the -- this isnt a war between republicans and democrats. its about real peoples lives out there. i hear from them every ta. is the affordable care act perfect? no. lets work together to fix those little problems and not destroy a bill that is a major health care co...

Gutting key protections. trum care eviscerates essential health benefits such as maternity care, prescription drugs, emergency coverage, prenatal care, and guts protections for americans with preexisting medical conditions. as bad as trump care was the first time around, it was dead, it died, it died right here on the floor, now its come back to life. like a zombie. even more scary than before. and it is even worse. if republicans have their way, americans with preexisting conditions will be pus...

Have recklessly and some would say fraudulently claimed that trump care covers americans with preexisting conditions. it does not. it does not. as robert gaboys at the conservative center said about the upton amendment the $8 billion amount is a pittance, spread over five years it is a fifth of a pittance as karen from the kaiser family foundation said the upton amendment would cover the cost for 1% of the individual market. others have given it up to 5%. 1 to 5%. does that mean covering? no. fo...

The sidewalk. if republicans thought they were really protecting people, they wouldnt be afraid of the facts. but theyre also afraid of the truth. and the truth that would come forth if we knew the facts. and theyre afraid that the american people will find out this is not a health care bill, this is a tax bill disguised as a health bill, this is a bill that is one of the biggest transfers of wealth from the middle class to the richest people and corporations in america. its a tax bill, not a he...

Premiums. whats your understanding of precisely how these high risk pools would work? >> you know, its very complicated. regular insurance works like for car insurance which we all understand, not everybody is going to have a car accident at the same time. what these high risk pools do is take the healthy people out, put them in another pool, and everybody thats sick or has a preexisting condition goes into these high risk pools. they say you need $180 billion to $200 billion to cover the cost o...

The presidents remanrks come a day after he huddled with his national security team inside the white house situation room. his advisers updating im hn evidence suggesting the killers in this weeks san bernardino shooting massacre were radicalized before they gunned down and killed 14 people. today the father of one of the shoot es syed rizwan farook admitted to an italian newspaper his son shared the ideology of the ason j leader al baghdadi. can the president reassure he has a plan to restrdest...