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Inclusive health policy to people for just whatever reason they choose if they decide that theyd rather spend their money on cars, homes, vacations or entertainment. and see the so-called safety net cant become a hammock that allow some to relax and others to pay for it. neither can the government force us to buy a product in order for us to enjoy our rights as citizens. most families cant afford the cost of a severely disabled family member and even private insurance has limits to exhaust the l...

This takes place. >> i will take the blame as a democrat for part of it -- of us not emphasizing this. not only all right bill make sure that a child gets protection in the first year on pre-existing conditions. in other words, you discriminate against a child on a pre-existing condition, you have broken the law. first time in american history. secondly, with regard to adults, they will have maybe not the prohibition in place until a couple of years but if youre an adult and youre denied coverag...

Be jobs, jobs, jobs, one of the reasons the unemployment rate has gone up. so many people are out of jobs they dont have insurance. the risk pool, and you cant compete across state lanes and insurance companies in new jersey can charge i think its an average of $5,000 for an insurance policy for help and down in ken condition 900 some dollars and we ought to buy insurance across state lines like we can buy wine across state lines and thats the way to do it, competition. >> doug, ive got to have ...

Unions do today. >> check. thats exactly what the proposed health insurance exchanges are all about. the more people that are allowed to participate in these exchanges, the greater the risk pool becomes and the lower the costs get. the second republican demand already in the bill. >> number three, give states the tools to create their own innovative reforms that lower health care costs. >> im beginning to sound like a broken record here, but check, also in the bill. section 1332 of the senate bi...

Participate in these exchanges, the greater the risk pool becomes and the lower the costs get. so they are two for two. the second republican demand already in the bill. >> number three, give states the tools to create their own innovative reforms that lower health care costs. >> i know im beginning to sound like a broken record here, but, check, also in the bill. section 1332 of the senate bill is called the waiver for state innovation. again, as ezra points out, it allows states to opt out of ...

All you want. people want to see something. they sent obama down to washington a year and a half ago virtually. they have a congress thats been in charge for the past two years working with obama and yet nothing has really happened. so i understand the frustration. i understand the fact that people are upset. im upset as well. listen, theres only so much rhe rhetoric you can do. the republicans now essentially can filibuster any piece of legislation they want to. they have the extra vote to do t...

Olive branch of bipartisanship, not something his predecessor would have or could have done. over the weekend some house republicans re wrote the history immediately. congressman mike pence, who moderated the proceedings and with whom the floor was mopped, mischaracterizing it as the first time president obama recognized that republicans have ideas. >> republicans have been out in the cold in this debate for the last year. yesterday i think maybe the president said, all right, all right, you guy...

Health care anywhere in the united states who appears to actually support this bill. one thing that it doll is there is no individual mandate. so the market which is starting to become destabilized because we dont know if the government is going to make the payments that it does to secure -- to deal with those cost sharing subsidies, can you forget about the markets. you zroeblt to get insurance. the whole risk pool is going to dissolve into nothing. >> its not like the plans have not been worke...

Taking medication every day. >> whats your concern. >> my concern is if we get away from the aca, that i will no longer have the continuity of care that ive had under my blue cross blue shield plan under the aca. id be thrown in a high risk pool where id no longer have insurance as i do now and what i have now has kept me life for three years since diagnosis. >> jacob, what weve heard, you have medicaid recipients here, a lot of individuals that receive subsidies through the exchanges, and as pa...

Preexisting conditions be covered. can you talk whab about what he went there. was he talking about the language thats already in there? >> i think both. in the sense mcarthur meadows amendment ensures that preexisting conditions are continued to be covered. that obviously is the bill hopefully passes the house this week or whatever it does and then goes through the senate and house. this is an issue that is important to him. >> how does he ensure those people are treated affordably. there was a...