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I watched congressman duncan hunter earlier, and he was spot on when he said the obstructionism occurs in the united states senate. by way of example, the house during the last session of congress, we passed over 500 pieces of legislation to address various issues that the senate did not even bother to have a senate floor vote on. and now the senate once again is empowering the democrats to be obstructionists and to block what president trump, what a majority of the house and a majority of the senate was elected to accomplish, much to the dissatisfaction of all those voters that sent us to was...

The hospital is more likely to get paid, but patients were more likely to come in earlier in the course of their disease until waiting quite late in the course of their disease. if you prescribed medications, because of prescription drug coverage they could get those medications. in my case, i'm a neurosurgeon. if i scheduled surgery, i'd encounter patients who would have this problem, needed surgery, but you wouldn't see them again because think couldn't afford an operation or it would put them in bankruptcy. that situation has changed. primarily imd gent care hospitals, but again, all hospit...

Will give it an a-grade. you see a quarter give it a failing grade, so it's not to say that people thought this was perfect by no means. those aren't great grades. but they still, when asked, the followup question, do you want to get rid of it, they overwhelmingly said no. they didn't want to get rid of it. there were changes they want the to see made, in terms of lowering cost, decreasing the paperwork. the sentiment has been among a lot of physicians, we're being asked to do a lot more with a lot less. we were 22,000 prime aary care doctors short, and now it's thinner. on balance, the idea t...

Percentage of doctors across the board will give this an a grade, the affordable care act, it's very low. 3%, 3.5% or so give it an a grade. you can see the numbers. a quarter or so give it a failing grade. so it's not to say that people thought this was perfect by no means. those aren't great grades but they still when asked the follow-up question, do you want to get rid of it, they overwhelmingly said, no. there was changes they said that needed to be made, specifically in terms of lowering costs specifically in terms of decreasing the paperwork, the sentiment has been among a lot of physici...

For ten weeks before they find a new job. that's 70 days. and when people are unemployed, just getting by, paying bills like their mortgage can be difficult, let alone paying an insurance premium on top of all that. >> when you look at our health insurance industry overall now, what grade would you give our health insurance system? >> i would probably say about a c. >> c? >> maybe a b minus. >> reporter: of course she's really hoping that the final replacement plan will be an a-grade for her and the rest of america. dr. sanjay gupta, cnn, atlanta. >> the u.s. health and human services secretar...