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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...

Country. today, we have the -- we honor the visions of our founders, we can, who risked everything, they risked everything, their lives, their liberty, their sacred honor, to advance the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. the life, a healthier life. the freedom to pursue your happiness. the freedom from being job locked or policy locked because of what the republicans want to do today. today, we fight to preserve affordable health care as the right of every american, not the privileged few. today we fight for children like zoe madison. zoe was born with a conget tall heart d...

So before the affordable care act, a child like jimmy kimmel's child born with a congenital heart disease could use up the entire lifetime limit for insurance coverage, maybe in a week or two. i mean, these are the sorts of conditions that are imminently treatable but it's expensive to treat them and you can go through hundreds of thousands of dollars in a matter of days or weeks. so even somebody with the resources of jimmy kimmel could ultimately be backgrounded by a lifetime of care. you know, you get $500,000, $1 million, and that's it. from too time you're born until this plan no longer c...

>> you bet. so before the affordable care act, a child like jimmy kimmel's child, born with a congenital heart disease, could use up the entire lifetime limit for insurance coverage. maybe in a week or two. i mean, these are the sorts of conditions that are treatable. but it's expensive to treat them. and you can go through hundreds of thousands of dollars in a matter of days or weeks. so even somebody with the resources of jimmy kimmel could ultimately be bankrupted by a lifetime of care. what the limits used to say, you get $500,000, a million dollars and that's it from the time they are bor...

This is a guy who has spent career defending the independence of the judiciary understanding that he's a judge who is meant to interpret the law and not make the law which is what president trump and republicans have been talking about as a justice who is going to be smart, qualified in the scalia style someone who will look at every case as it comes along on its own merits based on what the law and constitution tells them. i think it would not be inconsistent for him to have said something like that. >> i would like to ask you about obamacare. there was talk the other day senator bernie sande...