i can remember with beau thinking to myself what would i do if they walked in and said you ve outrun your time here? 35 days lived. the things that change people s lives, we both understood the affordable care act wasn t about a single president or the presidency. it was about the countless countless americans lying in bed at night staring at the ceiling wondering, my god, my god, what if i get really sick? what am i going to do? what is my family going to do? will i lose the house? discussions we had in my house with my dad when he lost his health insurance. who is going to pay for it? who is going to take care of my family? in america health care as we all three have said, health care
i can remember there with beau, thinking to myself, what would i do if they walked in and said, you ve outrun your time, man? and there was still 35 days to live. the things that change people s lives. we both understood the affordable care act wasn t about a single president or the presidency. it was about the countless, countless americans lying in bed at night, staring at the ceiling, wondering, my god, my god, what if i get really sick? what am i going to do? what are my family going to do? will i lose the house? discussions we had in my house with my dad when he lost his health insurance. who s going to pay for it? who s going to take care of my family? you know, in america, healthcare, as we ve all three
people don t realize those in medicare benefited. and how they benefited is there s something called the doughnut hole which had to do with drug prices.11 million seniors have saved $23 billion. you can do the math. that s on average over $2,000. so the affordable care act wasn t just about the marketplace which has helped get 20 million insured. it s not perfect. it has flaws in the system. where are the places you thi it has not lived up to the expectations when it started. where could it be improved? we want to continue to work to create more competition and more affordability. the president did a piece in jama, journal of medicine.
of many, especially going in the midterm elections. look to see some movement on this. i think this is like the tipping point. one paper came out. i think they should have done this before the 2012 election. where were you guys? you had to get two more years in before you decided to take back your 2008 endorsement? a day late and a pipeline short. i think it was curious that the affordable care act wasn t at least in the top two. the house energy and commerce committee chairman fred upton issued the following statement regarding two new reports by the department of health and human services officer inspector general. what he s saying is they ve completely pointed to ip competence when it came to rolling out health contain.gov and other parts of obamacare. i m surprised montana didn t have that in the top two. there s a long list as jessie pointed out so we have a lot of things to cover. probably couldn t get it all in
the probable and exposed some others. the president says they have enlisted the brightest to fix the problem and other parts of the act are working as they should. the goal is to enroll nearly a million people over the next since months to keep costs low. it s possible some people might have even longer to enroll in the states where the government declined to expand medicaid. the obamacare law states people should not be penalized for not having access to insurance, meaning they wouldn t have to pay the fine that the supreme court ruled is a tax when it found outcome outcome kaz to be constitution obamacare to be constitutional, why what is the response from the republicans. they say the president s speech doesn t change the reality that the affordable care act wasn t ready for prime time. they suggest the online signup problem could pore fortend bigger problems.