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He can't speak. and just our being able to have him -- we have him at home. and our insurance, you know, he does -- he has medicaid but not all doctors are taking the medicaid. >> let me ask you this. the key point here is the lifetime cap, right? >> yes. >> the policy basically says -- and folks are familiar with this, you spend a million dollars and then that's it, for your life, it's done. affordable care act got rid of that. if that lifetime cap existed, you would have just been out of luck. >> yeah. we would have been out of luck. >> judy, you've got a story about the affordable health ca...

And just our being able to have him -- we have him at home. and our insurance, you know, he does -- he has medicaid but not all doctors are taking the medicaid. >> let me ask you this. the key point here is the lifetime cap, right? >> yes. >> the policy basically says -- and folks are familiar with this, you spend a million dollars and then that's it, for your life, it's done. affordable care act got rid of that. if that lifetime cap existed, you would have just been out of luck. >> yeah. we would have been out of luck. >> judy, you've got a story about the affordable health care act and a con...

Normally do, to get a sense of how much people are going to be covered and how much this is going to cost. so what's happening is, they are creating, manufacturing a health care crisis that really doesn't exist right now. >> ron,ky put that number back up on the screen. i wonder if there's another way of looking at this. that they would keep and improve is at 51%. one of the criticisms from the right is this republican replacement plan they say would keep the basic infrastructure of obamacare. it would modify it. it would present a more conservative, republican friendly version of it. i think ...

To come out? >> yes. this is our daughter, lauren. she's 30 years old. she has cystic fibrosis and she needs the provisions of the aca including pre-existing conditions and no lifetime limits to survive. >> whashg, what do you want to say to tom reid given your daughter's situation? >> we'd like to encourage mr. reid to seriously consider. we know that repeal is going to happen, okay so, let's get a reasonable replacement, a repair for obamacare. let's take care of provisions that are so important to people who desperately need them. that of course being the lifetime caps. our daughter's surge...

Health insurance because of a pre-existing condition and you can't be charged more for your health insurance because you're a woman and your health insurance can't put a lifetime cap on what you're allowed to need because of your health care. and 20 million americans got health insurance because of president obama and for the first time ever, the number of uninsured people in our country in single digits, more than 90% of the country has health insurance now. and quietly along the way, yes, he did appoint the most diverse cabinet ever and he a pointed a record number of women judges and minori...