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Those people couldn't afford coverage. 70 million americans with employer coverage before the aca faced limits, lifetime limits on the coverage, which if you had cancer or you were otherwise sick could really affect you. the affordable care act removed that. the state waivers bring it back. and any state that wants to do, and they even have adverse effects on states that don't take the waivers because under the way it works, employers only have to cover the benefits in a plan that any state in the country has as its standard. so if alabama or mississippi get a waiver and they say you no longer...

Sick baby. and everybody i think agrees with jimmy kimmel. we have enough money in this country to provide care for those types of folks. i don't think the logical conclusion is oh, by the way, the republicans are going to kick these people off of health care. that's not the point. the point behind the state waiver program is that the state governments know how to treat children like the kimmel baby better than the federal government does. >> bob, your reaction to that? >> before the affordable care act was passed, very few states had meaningful protections for people with preexisting conditio...

Others over the past few years. so at this time, when it's coming to crunch time. when we're getting ready to change the historic failure of obamacare. when we're getting ready to make the affordable access to affordable care for everyone, we're putting back into control the people, the hard working tax payer that i see in my district and across this country. people who were helped by the affordable care act. we already talked about the fact that we're going to make this a smooth transition. we've talked about this, keep preexisting conditions. we're going to keep the children on insurance unt...

Mandates. it eliminates the taxes and the penalties, but it preserves the things that as a doctor, i think are very important. people with presenting conditions will be protected, there will be any lifetime limits for people who are ill and also young people can stay on their parents plan. i think those things are very, very important. this is a monumental shift away from obamacare and toward the freedom and choice the patient's want. >> jon: if it doesn't have the individual mandate, it does contain a penalty provision for anybody who drops their insurance, right? if you drop your insurance f...

Innovation in the health care system, through both transparency and accountability. >> joining me now is tammy lubby, thank you so much for joining me i should tell our viewers that you are definitely an expert. will this deliver on prices promised? >> well, let's go over some to have basics first, it's just for the individual market and medicaid market but the republican plan keeps kids under 26 can stay on their parents plan, those with preexisting conditions protected no annual lifetime limits on coverage and keep the cap on out of pocket costs but does get rid of employer mandates and givi...