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Insurance market and actually get coverage that's affordable for them. >> sam stein? >> i want to talk about medicaid. medicaid, under your provision, there's $840 billion in cuts to the medicaid. the cbo estimated that 14 million people will lose their coverage out of the 24 million people that lose coverage, 14 million will be medicaid eligible. what is your message to someone who depends on medicaid? low-income people, often have bad medical conditions, no private insurance. they need medical help. i've talked to a bunch of them and they're petrified about their medical futures. can you giv...

Crying, whose disabled child lost health care. it's not complicated. as joe manchin said they might not remember who gave you the health care but they'll certainly remember who took it away. >> 20 house republicans who voted against the gop health care bill. congressman leonard lance of new jersey. congressman, why didn't you step in line and vote for the bill? you could have gone to the white house, had your picture taken with the president and gone to the oval office. >> mika, i always try to vote my conscience and vote what is in the best interest of the district i'm honored to serve. certa...

Americans, many who voted for him, who are struggling to take care of their children, who are struggling to take care of their parents, who are struggling to take care of their grandparents, this really is an issue of life and death. and so many people that voted for this bill voted without reading the bill, voted without having a cbo score and voted without having any idea what impact it would have. >> yeah. >> on their constituents. good luck to all of them. >> ashley parker in the washington post really sums it up. it's a little long but worth looking at the pictures and listening to her re...

To that, it's not true as well. there are massive amount of people who will end up losing health insurance under this plan. we're only going by the old cbo score, too, right? that had 24 million people potentially losing coverage. they didn't wait around for a new cbo score which will come. but that will likely show even more people losing coverage under this plan. the medicaid cuts i think are the biggest thing here. $840 billion in medicaid cuts. we're talking about a huge swathe of the population, about 14 million of those 24 million people who will lose coverage. they are from the medicaid...

The long run to really curb the cost of this health care system in any fundamental way. there's going to have to be radical reform of the health care system and these republicans weren't willing to do enough. so, instead, they presented a plan that's only going to hurt people, that needed the health care coverage the most. and they didn't even look at the cbo score. they didn't even read the bill. remember when they mocked nancy pelosi for seven years saying we've got to pass the affordable care act to understand what's in the affordable care act? that's what they did yesterday. good luck to t...