time to start looking at fixing the faulty elements of obamacare? what we have learned is that this is structurally flawed. there is no way to fiction this marketplace except to take the health insurance aca marketplace down. right now when you are looking at in the 2018 insurance year. 44% of the nation s counties will have only one or no provider of a marketplace understand plan. so that means that you are putting individual in those counties in the cross-hairs, if you will, for irs penalties and with lack of access to a marketplace compliant plan. so it s unfair to penalize them. and it s unfair to turn to them and say others have subsidies, but you don t because you have no marketplace plan. it is 44% of our nation s
so doing this in a bipartisan way is something that s much preferred rather than having it be something that is just a partisan battle? arthel: right now you have got all the democrats saying no to the current draft of the gop bill. it s disappointing to me. many times they will come to you and say we know something has to be done. understand marketplace is imploding. health insurance premiums in my state, tennessee, have gone up 176% since this went into effect. you cannot sustain that. we also talked to constituent. yesterday in my district talking with individuals that are self-employed who would say i can t afford this insurance. i talked to one family with their premiums and deductibles combined together, they are out of pocket $30,000 before anything kicks in. now their combined household