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Health coverage either due to being considered having a preexisting condition or from being charged higher insurance premiums than men? >> well, congratulations on your new baby. is it a boy or girl? >> it's a surprise. >> wonderful. what's your older child? >> we have a 2-year-old child. >> what's his name? >> sampson. how wonderful and congratulations. >> thank you. >> heidi and i have two little girls at home and it is a wonderful, wonderful thing. listen, maternity coverage is incredibly important. here's how obamacare worked. you had a lot of politicians in washington who said we're going...

Response? >> what ted is really telling you is that they will not guarantee coverage for you. not every pregnancy is planned and if a woman under -- a pregnant woman before obamacare, you know what you were considered to be? a preexisting condition. why would an insurance company want to provide care to you when having a baby is a fairly expensive proposition? you don't make money doing that. ted keeps talking about these mandates. let's be clear again what senator cruz and his republican friends want to do. they do not want to guarantee that women who become pregnant will be able to get the h...

Refused to expand medicaid, to maryland. and within two weeks i started receiving treatments through medicaid and am now well enough to work as a substitute teach every. senator cruz, can you promise me that you and the republican leaders in congress will actually have a replacement plan in place for people like me who depend on their medicaid? in other words, i like my coverage. can i keep it? >> well, carol, thank you for sharing your story. and congratulations on dealing with ms. it's a terrible disease. congratulations on your struggles dealing with it. if you look at medicaid, more than h...

That's a much better solution. create an environment where you don't tax the daylights out of people. >> aren't we all happy that under obama we created 15 million new jobs in the private sector? >> senators, i want to get to more audience questions. this one is about the fact that the affordable care act requires that all insurance plans cover what the law calls essential health benefits. this includes maternity and delivery costs. we have a question on what will happen to that coverage for maria who is pregnant with her second child. >> i'm a nursing student at the medical university of sout...

They look kind of fun. but you know what, i'm willing to bet most of us, if that was the mandate -- and it would be cool, you could go 200 miles an hour. what it would mean for most people is you couldn't afford a car. if they said, you know, gosh the vw bug is not fancy enough. you need everything. that's what obamacare is doing. i would love for everyone to have maximum coverage on everything, but there's no magic fairy with pixie dust that gives it away for free. these mandates are hurting people because it's putting people in a situation where they get nothing, they don't get healthcare of...