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Occur and the need for health care reform. >> dan lothian for us. dan, appreciate it. thank you. we will have more on toma canfield's story this hour, and we'll have live coverage of president obama's remarks expected at 1:05 eastern time. what is in the health care bill? here are some of the highlights for you. for seniors, the bill would tighten up the so-called doughnut hole gap in medicare prescription coverage. it would reduce subsidies to medicare advantage insurance programs which enroll about a quarter of seniors. the plan would fine employers with 50 or more workers if they do not pro...

Immediately. so, people who have insurance can never be thrown out of the insurance. so that, there would be no lifetime limits. so that young people age 21 don't get thrown off of their parents' policies, and they can stay on past 25. and look for those things where there is common agreement >> but he says it won't work unless you do everything mathematically, senator barrasso. >> i disagree, because we need to go step by step way to positive direction to number one focus on the cost of care. that is what warren buffett said monday that the big threat to this is the cost of care and then get ...

It took a while for the american people to understand what we had done, but lo and behold, a little later than i'd expected, a lot of folks, including many who had initially opposed healthcare reform, came around. and today, the aca hasn't just survived. it's pretty darn popular. and the reason is because it's done what it was supposed to do. it's made a difference. first, 20 million and now 30 million people have gotten covered thanks to the aca. it's prevented insurance companies from denying people coverage based on a preexisting condition. it's lowered prescription drug costs for 12 millio...

It's eliminated lifetime limits on benefits that often put people in a jam. we are incredibly proud of that work. but the reason we're here today president biden, vice president harris, everybody who has worked on this thing understood from the start the aca wasn't perfect. to get the bill passed we had to make compromises. we didn't get everything we wanted. that wasn't a reason not to do it. if you can get millions of people health coverage and better protection, it is to quote a famous american, it is a pretty big deal. [ applause ] but there were gaps to be

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