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Insurance in the next decade. now the cbo will put more numbers on in the next couple of weeks, i suspect. so that we understand how much worse it got. because all that got added were loosened protections for people and possibilities of states opting out of minimum benefit guarantees like maternity coverage or mental health care. so it's hard to -- yes, you can say all of that. but already we had information indicating it was not on track for that at all. >> right. and that goes to where your health expertise meets the political side, which we can handle back in studio which is why the sales p...

We want to make sure that -- and i think everybody agrees that when a baby enters this world, we all can agree whether we're run or democrat that that baby ought to have the best chance to have a healthy life. i don't know why this is a political issue, and i don't understand, and we don't understand at the march of dimes why we have to have a debate about it. but apparently we do. one of the things we want to make sure that the senate understands is that we should not put on the table maternity coverage for women. we should not put on the table whether or not babies have a chance to have heal...

>> what we estimate is that there could be millions of people that could lose. and what's really important is that this is really a debate that we really need to have. we want to make sure that -- and i think everybody agrees that when a baby enters this world, we all can agree whether we're run or democrat that that baby ought to have the best chance to have a healthy life. i don't know why this is a political issue, and i don't understand, and we don't understand at the march of dimes why we have to have a debate about it. but apparently we do. one of the things we want to make sure that the...

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 have to do maternity coverage, mental health coverage, even prescription drugs, then any employer in any other state that wants to can impose lifetime limits on all of those kinds of coverages. you know, it's really a pretty extraordinary bill. it takes over $1 trillion over ten years out of coverage subsidies to help you buy coverage, to pay deductibles. and the biggest use i...

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...