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Had a little hurricane damage. they got hit but we took good care of it, right? they're great people. they are small business owners and they know personally the benefits of association health plans, one of which used to provide health insurance for their employees. but after obamacare, they were unable to afford their association plan so they had a great thing, their employee were happy and then it ended like so many more. this is something i hear. gregg has been incredible on this subject and people had plans that worked and then all of a sudden they were totally cut off. it happened to your...

Your determination to repeal and replace obamacare and your commitment demonstrated today by this action, to provide the american people with more choices for more affordable healthcare in the 21st century. with that, ladies and gentlemen, it's my privilege to introduce the president of the united states of america. [applause] >> president trump: thank you. thank you very much to vice president pence for that wonderful introduction and for the great job you do. i want to thank secretary acosta, mnuchin. acting a secretary mcmahon for joining us today. we're gathered together for something that...

The interpretation of what we heard. what is your interpretation? >> he came in with his talking points and they're not relevant. the affordable care act is not affordable. to a lot of small businesses and people who work for small businesses can't afford it. the premiums have gone up dramatically. congress hasn't fixed it and won't fix it for the foreseeable future. the president has ordered his agencies, labor, health, human services, treasury to fix a system that basically people can't afford today. i think the vast majority of americans who don't have insurance today, can't afford insuranc...

Interest at heart. this plan will strip away the protections that obamacare included to make sure people have minimum coverage standards. that people can't be thrown off healthcare for pre-existing conditions. those have to be covered and that they can't have lifetime caps that if you get sick the insurance suddenly says well, we've covered enough. you're done for the day. >> melissa: i didn't hear -- i haven't heard any adjustments to those portions of the plan at all. all he talked about was going across state lines, forming associations. and the fact that people can buy stripped down plans ...

America once again. we hope to see this type of cooperation and teamwork in helping secure the release of remaining hostages and in our future joint counter terrorism operations. so with that, i want to begin by saying it's my pleasure to welcome so many great small business and association leaders to the white house as we prepare to make this truly historic announcement. that's exactly what it is. we've been hearing about the disaster of obamacare for so long. in my case many years, most of it outside in civilian life, and for a long period of time since i've started running and since i becam...