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Good because at least we're status quo. >> they are proposing an expansion, allowing some to pay on a sliding scale. for many the only time they saw a doctor was in the emergency room. under the new gop plan still being hashed out on capitol hill, facilities like this could lose funding. if that happens, robin hopes her family will be able to afford insurance. let's say the premium is, just for the two of us, $350. that's at least half of one of my husband's paychecks. half. >> what do you want to see the president do as far as health care is concerned? >> i don't think anybody wants to necess...

>> reporter: we're inside this restaurant, a popular restaurant in town. when you talk to folks, you and them to grade president trump in his first 100 days, if they supported him in the first place, they give him an a, an a plus, sometimes a b. they recognize that health care, for example, didn't go through. they blame congress. they recognize the travel ban didn't go as planned. at least not yet. they blame the courts. so everything that trump promised to do, to them, he's done. and during our interviews, we were all around town talking to people and we learned the basics of the tax proposal...

There, at least the proposal, and i will own my own practice as an orthodontist, for example, that's huge news. here are a couple of examples. my husband is a doctor. he owns his practice also. so for the two of us, the taxation has truly been a burden. we don't make millions of dollars. going from 35% to 15% is huge. >> sanctuary cities, i'm a very firm believer in not rewarding bad behavior. >> i'm sure he will find a way for mexico to pay for it. there is a lot of different ways in terms of border taxes, revenue flow, in and out of mexico. >> reporter: so almost in a lot of cases we talked ...

This in washington, you say this facility, what is provided here, this is a question of life and death in some instances? >> absolutely a question of life and death. people have come to us because they have care, they have coverage. they're able to get screenings they couldn't get before. we've identified diseases, chronic diseases, that are now managed because they have coverage. >> reporter: beth west, thanks very much. katy, back to you. >> thank you guys very much. speaking of ohio, the state's governor and former presidential candidate john kasich is playing hardball this evening. he'll...

We traveled to kent on, ohio where 70% voted on trump. >> reporter: in kenton, ohio, life is often marred by tough decisions. >> sometimes you have to make the decision, die buy groceries, do i buy medicine or do i go to the doctor? >> a mother of four voted for trump, hoping to get rid of obamacare. >> do we need to get rid of it completely? no, but i think there are lots of improvements that need to be made. >> and even the health care plan failed in the first 100 days, katie still believes in what the president says. >> it's gotten better and better and it's gotten really good. we have a ch...