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Programs for three-year-olds. less than one out of five latino children in america have the privilege of pre-k programs. we now have a funded child care for working class families. we did a lot for our seniors, finally for the first time in american history negotiating pharmaceutical prices. insulin which is huge in the latino community, we have a lot of diabetes in south texas, 35 dollar cap on insulin shots. max $2,000 a year out of pocket. these are transformative changes that haven't ever been made in this country. president biden and this administration is doing it. the majority of people...

Have to address it. it will continue to dog him. >> absolutely 100% agree with you. so we are talking about how he had an amazing 24 hour fundraising announcement. now elizabeth warren is making a big fundraising announcement of her own telling supporters that she is going to forego any fancy receptions or big money fund raisers only with people who can write big checks as well as phone calls to wealthy donors. does that mean she is not accepting large dollar donations anymore? wouldn't it be more effective to say you would put a dollar cap on donations you are accepting? >> politically that p...

Formula with diminishing financing per capita, per person. in the long run, certainly after 2026, people on medicaid get less funding than in the past. susan collins is mad about that. you saw the governor, the independent goff of maine join -- governor of maine to join with the vice president to urge her to do it. she's reporting a lot of folks in maine like her stand against passing this bill. >> shepard: it seems that last time the republicans came up with a plan, it only had 17% approval across the nation. this time the concern seems to be if not primarily, largely, about a cap on lifetime...

Been rejected for coverage. you could have been charged a lot. you could have gotten coverage. but if you had asthma, you wouldn't get coverage for your respiratory system. high risk pools existed in 35 states in the past. but they had a lot of problems. they charged high premiums. they had waisting lists and they lost a lot of money. >> you have a great write on this. i would push them to cnnmoney.com, but you talk about wisconsin. you talk about paul ryan, the speaker's own state where this was tried and did it succeed? >> you know, i mean, the reviews were mixed. it worked okay. it was a mi...

Overnight. >> last word, austan. i'm sure you're not going to tell me that obamacare is a drag on the economy, but has it been so far? >> i think that argument that this is uncertainty and uncertainty is why business is not vesting or not hiring has been utterly disproven in the data. on the health side, the fact that more than 100 million people no longer have a dollar cap on their insurance over their lifetimes and don't have to be nervous about getting sick and don't have to be nervous about starting their own businesses, that they would lose their health insurance, all of those are for the...