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Down thayer. >> sure, and, again, remember, the affordable health care act is playing out in the context of other things, like immigration reform, like the farm bill, things where there's been nothing but negativity, things like we hate what president obama is for. they've got to start talking about it realistically. i was on a show where some republican said well, we're for making sure that people don't get disqualified for pre-existing conditions. we're for eliminating lifetime cap, et cetera, but they're not for the mandate. and i pointed out, you can't have the insurance reforms without pu...

In the packet has been exclusively driven toward benefiting employer-based plans. >> but if you've got a bad insurance policy that doesn't corn all of your needs, if it doesn't cover mental health, it has a cap on an annual basis, a lifetime cap, if it has scluz for preexisting conditions, what good does it have for montanaens to have an insurance company come to montana with that bad policy. don't we have to have a national policy that if you have health sherns, it has to be comprehensive? >> that's like saying if you have insurance company, you can keep it. >> that's not my question. if you'...

That want to have that. that's a promise the president has kept and will continue to keep, i will keep as well. that's what we're working towards. quite frankly on the other side of the ledger, republican colleagues want status quo. they are not looking to improve lives in terms of ability to improve health care. they would much rather see the old way, women discriminated against because they were women. people knocked off the rolls because they reached a lifetime cap, got no money from insurance companies. those days are over and we're not going backwards. it's time they realized it. what hap...

Across the board. >> but did you guys think -- when you were having these conversations, i would imagine that you were talking about the affordable care act every day, both in the white house and in the campaign. was there a sense there was going to be some iceberg you guys were going to hit where, look, these letters are going to go out, we're going to have to deal with the fact that there will be some people who are seeing their plans canceled, or is the number bigger because insurance companies have sort of taken advantage of this window to push people out of stuff? >> well, i think we alwa...

Take for example 3-year-old zoe lynn suffers from a congenital heart defect. remember her mom stacy spoke a year ago how without obamacare, zoe's life would be in jeopardy. >> zoe's third open heart surgery will happen either next yek year or the year after. if mitt romney becomes president, and obama care is repealed. there is a good chance she will hit her lifetime cap. there is no way we can afford to pay for all of the care she need to survive. when you have a sick child it is always in the back of your mind, and sometimes in the front of your mind. >> joining me now are stacy, caleb, emer...