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Your problems. stacy, he feels that the health insurance market is going to offer you whatever you needed. you would be able to get whatever you need in a private market. >> right. that's just absolutely not true. it would be -- that would be great if that were true. you know, with her reaching getting very close to her lifetime cap, once she reaches that, you know, multiple million dollar max, there's no way. i don't see anyone saying oh, sure. we would love to cover this child. so it's scary to think, you know, by that third surgery and if she needs a heart transplant, which many children wi...

Insurance is a much more important subject than that. but you would never know that by watching the republican convention. at the democratic convention, we heard from a mother, stacy lynn, who needs the karen teas that obama care has given her family, because her daughter's life depends on it. >> zoe's third open heart surgery will happen either next year or the year after. if mitt romney becomes president and obama care is repealed, there's a good chance she'll hit her lifetime cap. there's no way we could afford to pay for all the care she needs to survive. >> joining me now for an sclusive ...

The sense that when i thought about lifetime caps, i always thought of it being a problem for older people. that somewhere up toward your 60s, probably before you get to medicare, if you've had a lot of problems you might hit your lifetime cap but as soon as you started speaking about this it become clear that the huge risk in lifetime caps is to children born with serious problems that need surgeries. they are in the most likely position to hit a lifetime cap. >> yeah, absolutely. with the rate of birth defects going up and sky rocketing and -- here you go -- and one in 100 children are born ...

Lifetime and there's a lot that can happen and a lot that can go wrong and those medical bills just keep adding up and it's frightening to think about a repeal. and losing that coverage. >> stacy, you changed my perspective on lifetime caps in the sense that when i thought about lifetime caps, i always thought of it being a problem for older people. that somewhere up toward your 60s, probably before you get to medicare, if you've had a lot of problems you might hit your lifetime cap but as soon as you started speaking about this it become clear that the huge risk in lifetime caps is to childre...

Year or the year after. if mitt romney becomes president and obama care is repealed, there's a good chance she'll hit her lifetime cap. there's no way we could afford to pay for all the care she needs to survive. >> joining me now for an sclusive interview and their first since the convention are caleb, stacy and zoe lynn. i want to hear what it was like to address the convconvention. i take it you've never spoken to an audience of 30 million people before. >> no i haven't. it was quite a surreal moment for me. i was speaking from the heart and it was something i feel passionate about. i was a...