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This policy when this occurs, the individuals responsible for this policy, i think they have blood on their hands. i really do. we have enough problems in the united states, enough crime committed by american citizens, even if its down in some cities i understand that and thats good news, but in places like baltimore and places like chicago, l.a., the poorest americans, the working poor who have already been dealt a difficult hand in many circumstances, now we go to them and say, you know, we kn...

I met a woman by the name of judy schneider with the congressional research service. she said everything on capitol hill is about policy, politics and procedures. i think they shouldve taken the side and say lets understand this about budget and better understand how this legislation should be crafted. you also need to understand there are key components to healthcare that need to be improved. you gotta do something for the working poor. you gotta do something for the people with pre-existing co...

Congressional research service. she said everything on capitol hill is about policy, politics and procedures. i think they shouldve taken the side and say lets understand this about budget and better understand how this legislation should be crafted. you also need to understand there are key components to healthcare that need to be improved. you gotta do something for the working poor. you gotta do something for the people with pre-existing conditions. we need to talk about affordability. we nee...

They saw just how transparent the republicans and trump were with this bill. this was a tax cut bill for the rich, not a health care bill. this was an attempt, now, to try and kill obamacare in actually more cruel ways. they are going to try to nip and tuck and cut their hhs, they are going to do everything they can to stymie and get in the way of the good that obamacare does. thats why bernie and the other progressive leaders of this party who i believe represent the majority of this party have...

Cut at hhs. theyre going do everything they can to stymie and get in the way of the good that obamacare does. thats why bernie and the other progressive leaders of this party who i believe now represent the majority of the party, have to get out there and push for the real fix. if we dont fix obamacare in the way it should be fixed, in the way i think president obama probably would agree it should be fixed, we are going to get hit really hard and the people we say we support, the people, the wor...

Theyre getting that they were lied to. they were held out -- a lot of promises were held out to them that arent going to come through and they saw just how transparent the republicans and trump were with this bill. this was a tax cut bill for the rich not a health care bill. this was an attempt now to try and kill obamacare in actually more cruel ways because theyre going to try to nip and tuck and cut at hhs. theyre going do everything they can to stymie and get in the way of the good that obam...

Do enough in terms of medicaid and aging people. lets pop up some of the wording on the screen. governors from ohio, michigan, new mexico, arkansas. it provides almost no new flexibility for states does. not insure the resources necessary to make sure no one is left out and shift significant new costs to states. you said there were more people who wanted to sign this letter? >> no doubt about that. the dirty little secret, a lot of governors, republican and democrat that are not for the bill. th...

Do enough in terms of medicaid and aging people. lets pop up some of the wording on the screen. governors from ohio, michigan, new mexico, arkansas. it provides almost no new flexibility for states does. not insure the resources necessary to make sure no one is left out and shift significant new costs to states. you said there were more people who wanted to sign this letter? >> no doubt about that. the dirty little secret, a lot of governors, republican and democrat that are not for the bill. th...

Anything you want, you can put a beautiful chanel earring on it, it still is going to be a hobo. >> poor people who are on medicaid, helping out the people, the working poor folks that cannot afford to buy healthcare by themselves. obamacare did it say we going to have exchanges and have gold played coverage and you were going to be mandated to buy it, so we said lets not do that, lets give refundable tax credit to allow them a little better pricing on their health care to choose what they want....

People? >> help is on the way. >> for people that dont have insurance, how are they better off? >> we have a plan thats going to be approved on thursday of this week that is the first phase of what we intend to do, and that is to put the free market back into health care where you have choices, where you have competition, where you have insurance companies who are actually competing for your service. >> hold on a second. lets talk about that for a moment. if you are somebody who is working. now ...