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Victims of domestic violence will not be discriminated against when purchasing health insurance? >> i think it's absolutely vital that victims of domestic violence and others, anybody, we need a system in place that ensures that individuals are either not priced out of the market because they get a bad diagnosisor not eligible or able to purchase coverage that works for th. >> and i want to interrupt. i don't want to get hung up on priced out of the market. what i'm asking for is an ironclad guarantee that that circumstance, that horrific circumstance will never be a bar to coverage, treatment...

Office. >> thank you. >> i wanted to highlight something we probably don't spend enough time highlighting or talking about, and that's the full protections of the -- what was known as the original bill, the patient protection and affordable care act. we've got a lot of shorthand terminology since then. and i know you and i have a basic disagreement. it's important to be candid about that. what a lot of people have forgotten about is that -- and the chairman had a chart earlier that outlined the categories of americans that have health insurance by virtue of various programs or i think the numb...

Was done actually makes it virtually impossible for many individuals to gain that kind of coverage. we, on the other hand, i believe it's important that we work together to put forward a system that actually allows, again, every single american to have the opportunity to purchase the kind of coverage that they think is best for themselves and for their families. >> so your goal is actually to have more people -- >> yes. >> -- thank you, covered by insurance. i have been baffled over the years by what cms reimburses for and what it fails to reimburse for. senator gene shaheen and i finally scor...

And health insurance on the basis of health status or disability? yes or no. >> again, i think it's absolutely imperative that we have a system in place that works for patients and anybody not being able to gain access to the coverage that they want or need is not a system that works for patients. >> and i'll follow up with more questions. what i'm getting at here is that we've -- we had a state of the law before passage of the aca where individuals like that, whether they happen to have a child had a pre-existing condition, even if their parents were paying premiums for years, an insurance co...

Americans? >> yes, we're a compassionate society. >> no, we are not a compassionate society in terms of our relationship to poor and working people, our record is worse than virtually any other nation. we have the highest rate of childhood poverty and our senior older workers have nothing set aside for retirement. i don't think we're particularly compassionate. but my question is, in canada, in other countries, all people have the right to get health care. do you believe we should move in that direction? >> if you want to talk about other countries' health care systems, there are consequences ...