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[ applause ] thank you very much. we call him billy. it was an easy delivery. six pushes he was out and he appeared to be a normal healthy baby until about three hours after he was born. we were out of the delivery room and moved to the recovery room and our whole family was there and we introduced him to his 2 and a half-year-old sister, cute had him, everything was good and my wife was in bad relax when a very attentive nurse at cedar's sinai hospital was checking him out and heard a murmur in his heart which is common with newborn babies but also noticed he was a bit purple which is not com...

Hospital very quickly. they did an echocardiogram, a sonogram of the heart and found that billy was born with a heart disease, something called tetralogy of fallot with pulmonary atresia. the pulmonary valve was blocked and he has a hole in the left between the left and right sides of his heart and they brought my wife in and they wheeledner and the doctor told her what was going on and what our options were, and we decided to take him to children's hospital where there's a world renowned cardiac surgeon who is a genius and we put the baby in an ambulance to children's hospital los angeles and...

Were two big problems. one, there was a huge wait list for them and, number two, they often charged really high premiums. i remember speaking to people pre-obamacare about the struggles they had with the high-risk pools. some of the republicans are talking about, well, we'll put more money into it so they will work better but a lot of experts think it just doesn't work. the whole thing about a pool is that you're supposed to spread the risk around. that's what insurance is, right? people of varying risks coming together. that's why insurance works, so to have a pool that's just people who are ...

>> reporter: and a senior republican leadership aide says we'll have a vote when we have the votes and, of course, there's still not been a vote scheduled yet so that's clearly where they are without having the support necessary, and on thursday the full house republican conference will hold another meeting that morning. that is the same day they are set to leave washington for a week-long recess. jake. >> sunlan serfaty live on capitol hill for us. turning from our health care bill to the health lead jimmy kimmel shared a heart wrenching story about his now 11-day-old son billy delivering a t...