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[ applause ] thank you very much. we call him billy. it was an easy delivery. six pushes he was out and he appeared to be a normal healthy baby until about three hours after he was born. we were out of the delivery room and moved to the recovery room and our whole family was there and we introduced him to his 2 and a half-year-old sister, cute had him, everything was good and my wife was in bad relax when a very attentive nurse at cedars sinai hospital was checking him out and heard a murmur in ...

Hospital very quickly. they did an echocardiogram, a sonogram of the heart and found that billy was born with a heart disease, something called tetralogy of fallot with pulmonary atresia. the pulmonary valve was blocked and he has a hole in the left between the left and right sides of his heart and they brought my wife in and they wheeledner and the doctor told her what was going on and what our options were, and we decided to take him to childrens hospital where theres a world renowned cardiac ...

Were two big problems. one, there was a huge wait list for them and, number two, they often charged really high premiums. i remember speaking to people pre-obamacare about the struggles they had with the high-risk pools. some of the republicans are talking about, well, well put more money into it so they will work better but a lot of experts think it just doesnt work. the whole thing about a pool is that youre supposed to spread the risk around. thats what insurance is, right? people of varying ...

>> reporter: and a senior republican leadership aide says well have a vote when we have the votes and, of course, theres still not been a vote scheduled yet so thats clearly where they are without having the support necessary, and on thursday the full house republican conference will hold another meeting that morning. that is the same day they are set to leave washington for a week-long recess. jake. >> sunlan serfaty live on capitol hill for us. turning from our health care bill to the health l...

Lets bring in cnns medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. could someone like billy kimmel be denied insurance because of a condition like this if not the xe existing condition law? >> reporter: absolutely. before obamacare that used to happen frequently. adults and children with pre-existing children when they went to go purchase insurance were told no or sometimes were told, sure, well insure you but for an incredibly high amount of money that, you know, many people couldnt afford, or well insu...