Law, we will take your temperature. What is your view . Republicans 202 7488001 democrats 202 7488000 and independents i 202 7488002. Phone lines are oh then. Open. Caitlin is a reporter for the national journal. Lets begin with the Kaiser FamilyFoundation Poll released yesterday. What question do they ask people in this survey . Guest i think the prominent one was whether or not they have a a verbal or unfavorable view of the Affordable Care act. It was actually split. Host why is that . Guest that is a good question. The gap has been narrowing for a few months now. Even with 1 of the population, is than the margin of error. A point to the change of a narrowing down. Host how does this compare with devious polls on the Affordable Care act . Guest it depends how far back you are looking. Last month theres not much of a difference. This time last year, there is a slightly bigger difference. It has switched since this time last year. Host march marked the fiveYear Anniversary of the orderable care act. In the president said it is working and succeeding. When this poll was given along political lines, what did it show . Democrats versus republicans . Guest democrats. That has not changed much. It is still partisan. Host how do republicans feel about it . Guest 75 is unfavorable. Host what did the Kaiser Family foundation ask about what to do about the Affordable Care act . Guest they looked at americans and whether or not they think it should be appealed or change. It was prettys lit. Under half Want Congress to expand the law or keep it as is. 4 in 10 what then to repeal it. This has remained pretty constant. Host republicans have put into their budget blueprints in the house incident language under reconciliation that would repeal the Affordable Care act. Words that they stand right now . Where does that stand right now . Guest experts are saying repealing is out of the question but that remains to be seen. Host thank you for your time this morning. Guest thank you. Host we turn to you to get your thoughts on the Affordable Care act. What is your view on this legislation . Do you like it . Do you have fixed billions with it . Do you have experience with it . You can start dialing in now. Sally pipes writes shreds of doubt about obamacare. Promises remain unrealized. Host dana and indiana, at republican. What do you think of the Affordable Care act . Guest i think it had to intentions. I do not think anyone would argue that it did not. It has done a lot more harm than good. It is making the backbone of the country look for Something Better in regard to health care. Im one of the 16 ers who does not have insurance until a couple of weeks ago through my employer. The mandates, i was not, i did not have to get insurance. There are a lot of options available will to it. It is costing more than it is worth. Host you did not have Health Insurance and 2014 . Caller you got it. Host do you have to pay tax penalty . Caller no. Rari already got have my refund. Host white you say it is not working . Caller i heard from a congress and that doctors are only getting a portion of their reimbursement. I am pretty sure i heard also that they are getting less of a reimbursement than what they were before. They are cutting patients at a higher rate than what we have seen in a long time or ever. It is just not working. Host what do you want your party to do about it . Caller i do not want to see them repeal and replace obamacare. That is a terrible statement. I want him to amend at i wanted them to amend it. I think they are on the right task. Repealing and replacing is the wrong thing to do. The number of americans who have been insured is consistent in about 14 state. We cannot disenfranchise the health and welfare of the nation because of politics. I think that it is why it is not gone yet. Host steve democrat, go ahead. Caller we are the only industrialized country that you can lose your home. I have a brother that suffered from cancer and a friend that suffered cancer recently. They are both in catastrophic financial conditions. Were the only country that this can happen to you industrialized country. We all get sick, whether republicans or democrats. Insurance companies, medical, pharmaceutical, they profit from us getting sick. It is something i do nothing goes far enough. We should have a singlepayer system to where we can all afford health care. Host ok. Do you think the Affordable Care act is one step closer . Caller hopefully so. Host ok. Steve in indianapolis through the lets go to darlene and las vegas, independent color. Early morning to you. Go ahead. Caller i was very fortunate to get one of my employers insured under the Affordable Care act or so i thought. As i attempted to get medical care around the Las Vegas Valley everywhere i went he was turned down and i was told over and over because there are so many healthcare corporations now that obamacare does not pay enough in reimbursements so they were refusing him treatment. Iit made it a challenge. Host what kind of insurance did he get . Caller he got helpt health plan of nevada through medicaid in the state of nevada. It is unfortunate. So many people thought they would be receiving the care. What happened in the Las Vegas Valley is multiple. First nations that had ssd ssi, who were medicaid recipients initially and wiped them off the books in favor of cash only or better insurance other than a federal government for statement insurance. It is an absolute shame. It lets a huge role in the Health Care System that people are trying desperately to find providers. Host what do you think congress could do . Caller truly mayhem, i do not knoww. If i knew i would be in office. Im trying to shore up the expanded medicaid system known what anyway. I feel so bad. There are some people truly struggling and fighting or just trying to get basic health care. Host marie, virginia republican. Caller how are you doing . Host i am doing well. Caller i want to make to comment spirit i didnt know people remember that president reagans that the way to socialism is the rachel through our health care. The reason people got on obamacare was because they were forced to. Those are my comments. Thank you very much. Host before you go. What do you want your Republican Party to do about it . Caller i wasnt to go back to the way things were. Host a full repeal. Caller yes. Host how big of an issue is this for you looking at to thousands of elections . Looking at 2016 elections . Caller i went in to fix it. Everyone was taking care of the weight rings were. The way things were. Im very unhappy about it. It has messed me up personally. I do not like it. Host where does that ring in other top issues ran and other top issues . Kcaller number one. Host what do you do for a living . Caller i am a property manager. Host how old are you . Caller i am not in my 40s anymore. Let me put it that way. Host we will go to rich in pittsburgh. Hi. Caller i have unique perspective. I am a veteran. I am out of this. I believe the polling is misrepresented. I aint these polls should state that do you approve or disapprove of it or you disapprove of it . It does not go far enough. I have two friends. One makes less than 20,000 years. Another makes over 50,000 a year. They have identical insurance. My friend that his from the marketplace at 19,000 a year. 12 a month. My other friend has the exact same plan but he has to pay 473 dollars a month. He hates obamacare. My other friend loved it. Here is the thing. When they go to the doctor if they have identical cards. They have identical silver plans. The doctors do not know which one came from the marketplace and onone did not. Host do you think obamacare just not go are enough . Caller i am for total singlepayer. I have no dog in the fight. I think we are ridiculous to have a system like england. They love it. My friends love their system over there. Host here is a vox. Com piece from march last month. We are getting your views on the article care act. What do you about it five years into it . Getting your view on whether or not you like it or dislike it. A new poll yesterday Shows Americans ours still split on this health care law. We will get some more of your calls here. Let me show you the front page of the washington times. Susan leaders have come to a bipartisan deal on an antiHuman Trafficking will. The nominee for attorney general will get a vote on yours. President obama picked her and has been pending since late last year. Here is a little bit from the senate or yesterday when Mitch Mcconnell and harry reid announced the deal. [video clip] we have been able to resolve the impasse that has prevented the senate from moving forward on this deal. I am glad we can say there is a bipartisan proposal that will will allow us to complete action so we can provide help to the victims who desperately need it. As soon as we finish the traffic bill we will move to the president s nominee for attorney general. Hopefully, in the next day or so. I want to thank the senior senator from texas for leading these the negotiation and his diligence on these issues. There is no schommer advocate for victims of Human Trafficking in senator cornyn. If we can sit down and work toward a solution could and can happen. The senate need more of this spirit lets hope the post Agreement Amendment to not ruin the agreement that we have reached. Each site will have to be conscious. Any one of the amendments can cause a filibuster. We do not need to get involved in it. We need to move forward on this legislation. Host the minority leader harry reid on the floor yesterday after a deal with announced a him and Mitch Mcconnell that they would move forward on Loretta Lynchs nomination. She should a vote on thursday. She appears to have enough votes confirmation, though just rarely. Here are a couple of tweets from democrats. Loretta lynch is more than five to be our next attorney general. The time for a confirmation vote is now. Itblack today republicans decided to stop playing games and i am the end of the gridlock to confirm lynch as attorney general. More on that cspan2 when he says gets underway today. We are getting your take on the Affordable Care act. Americans are still lit. What is your view . Richard, you are up. Independent. Caller i will say this. I do not really understand it. Why dont the governments it down with these Big Insurance Companies and have a big meeting and find out why the care is so expensive, why medical bills are so its expensive . I do not even know what is going on. Medicaid is just more of a welfare insurance for the children. There is just a small percentage of elderly people that use it. Lets sit down and find out what is the problem. Why is medical insurance so expensive . Host douglas in maryland, republican. Hi, douglas. Caller last year my company canceled all retirement benefits. I had to go on the Health Care Exchange and become a member of obamacare. I can tell you that like previous caller that talked about his two friends with the same plan, i chose a broad land which turned out to about the same monthly payment. It has a 6,000 deductabile. If i had gone for a plan that was similar to what my Company Benefits were it would have cost me about 2. 5 times what i was paying. I am for repeal and reform. More reform. The deal that the democrats made with the Insurance Companies and the Drug Companies is to let them keep their profits and set their rates. If you do not to get a subsidy obamacare is not an economic way of paying for health care. Host arizona, democrat. Good morning. Caller two of my Adult Children have a to get insurance because of prelisting conditions. My son was working in a job that had insurance and he left to go to a job, a better job but one that did not supply and insurance. He would not have been able to get insurance if it had not been for the Affordable Care act. Host how much money was accosting before they were able to get insurance for this preexisting condition . Caller they were not able to get it. Host so what were the medical bills like . Caller they were not terribly high. It is a chronic condition. It was mainly in the cost of the prescriptions which was about 250 a month. Host if you now saving that 250 a month . Caller yes. He is saving more money because of having his prescription covered then it was costing for the prescription. He has a silver plan. Host bill in new york. Independent caller. You are on the air. What is your view of the Affordable Care act . Caller it has only been out a couple of years. You cannot really judge or make any decision about how well it is working in such a time period. This was demonized out of the eight by the republicans because it is the showpiece of the Obama Administration. If never wanted it to you. A lot people have misconceptions. You cannot judge such a plan in two years. You have to give it 510 years. The Market Forces a think well bring it down, it takes time for that to happen. Host you are an independent. What do you want to see congress do or hear from the politicians . Caller i would like to hear the republicans are shut up or talk truthfully about it. I would give it more time. My idea for health care is a singlepayer. I think you should give everybody medicare, pay based on income. The woman several callers ago the first manifestation of socialism is medicare. Medicare is socialized medicine. It works just fine. The problem with health or if the prices go up because of the Drug Companies charging outlandish prices. As it is evident as i am a physician. Host what do you practice . Caller i am an in turn us, primary care. Host here is the New York Times. I white house hopefuls are preparing for the first primary vote. That deal is likely to be offered when the finance Committee Meet today at 10 45 a. M. We will have coverage of that on cspan3. If you are following this debate closely, they will be marking of trade deal. You will hear more debate on it when democrats and republicans need on the Senate Finance committee. Democrats want to amend the trad e bill. A block of difficult is blocking currency manipulation from the bill to ask that i specific trade deals. They want to include a measure to crack down on the manipulation crack distance. They are turning this on their head. It would include nations such as australia, in vietnam as a counterweight to china which is not part of the trade deal. That is what democrats are hoping for. Ted cruz, paul ryan joining together to write in the wash wall street journal. Here is a piece written by these two lawmakers. The wall street journal saying that rob portman may be supporting this effort by democrats. A lot of the papers on where the did eight is headed. Let me show you what it doesnt have to say about it yesterday. He was part of a round table on open heart all. Ardball. [video clip] president obama i love elizabeth warned that she is wrong on this and let me be very clear on this and on my views on trade. I am not somebody who believes in trade for trade sake. I come from a state in illinois that was devastated by the loss of manufacturing in many small towns. I we had a stretch of a couple of decades where in part because of globalization manufacturing moving wages. Trade deals have not always work for us. What i have also always lead to that it is us important for us to make sure our jobs are competitive. When i came into office i said what kind of trade deal would i like to see . How would we readvamp traded to make it work for america . We would have stronger labor standards. We would have stronger Environmental Standards with the countries we treated with. We would make sure we have access to their markets. We decided to start trying to crack a new kind of craft a new kind of trade deal. 90 of customers will be outside of the United States. If we want to compete we have to be there. Host president obama on hardball yesterday. Then the headlines this morning has a frontpage story. It says fenton in the middle as trade deal pushed by obama to five party. Clinton is viewed as a key barometer of the strategy to shift u. S. Foreignpolicy to asia to confront chinas rowing influence. Listen to what you have to say yesterday in New Hampshire as she was campaigning there. [video clip] Hillary Clinton any trade deal has to increase prosperity and protect our security. We have to do our part and make sure we had the tape abilities and skills to be competitive. It has to be a partnership between our business government, work force intellectual property that comes out of our university. We have to get back to a much more focused effort to try to produce those capacities here at home so we can be competitive. Host bloomberg with a video Hillary Clinton yesterday in New Hampshire. How her view on the trade deal that she wants to wait and see what the details are. Congress will hear from the japan Prime Minister next week during his week long visit to the United States. He will be giving a speech before the house and the senate. This trade deal is likely to come up before the l