air and incur more costs and don t it in a way that isn t supported by how policy is supposed to be made under the law. one of the cases that you re involved in is the lawsuits to strike down obamacare as unconstitutional. isn t the whole basis for their legal argument what congress just did is undoing the individual mandate and how do you fight back against that? well, really, it sa flimsy l theory that because of the tax bill obamacare goes away. this has been upheld by the supreme court not once but twice. this is not an abstract legal principle at work it has real implications for americans. we have made such progress in reducing the number of uninsured in this country by 43%. 1.3 million virginians could lose protections against pre-existing conditions if this
the population here is hard working but pour. there are people who will make about $32,000 in household income. reporter: mary lou adams, a nurse practitioner says since obamacare kicked in, she s seen the health of her community improve. we are seeing people that didn t come before with chronic diseases that felt like they did no have access. reporter: 63-year-old paula murphy never had insurance until obamacare helped her get medicaid. what sort of ailments do you have right now? high blood pressure, di diabetes, i have a torn rotator cuff and a bad knee. reporter: her message to president trump, followthrough on your promise to make health care better. at the moment i m gravely concerned. if he does what he says he can
do, i might be okay with it. two powerful republicans, senator paul said this this morning referring to it as ob a obamacare-lite. i think that s the negotiation period, i think we re in the prenegotiation period. we will get obamacare-obamacare they brir down the rule, if they stop him in the tracks, then true negotiation begins. no negotiation right now counts until they determine they have enough votes to stop obamacare-l blooirn ite. joining me now, director for politics at the university of virginia. the white house has said don t
ellis stewart, former communications director for senator ted cruz. tom price said this today, i firmly believe that nobody will be worse off financially in the process, at the end of this bill proposal by the republicans. after those comments, breitbart posted the headline, the upcoming lie of the year, about price s comments. so alic alice, do you think those words will come back to haunt president trump? when the obama administration when they said obamacare would lead to lower cost and hooirer choices, and that has not been the case. the reason we re hire is because with the obama care, we were promised lower costs and hooirer choices and it has led to higher costs and fewer choices and that is what president trump and republicans across the board campaigned on, is repealing and
per year. and many counties in this country only have one insurance company in which to choose from, that s not higher choices, and as secretary price had mentioned earlier this week, a lot of people might have a car, they might have coverage, but that is not affordable health care. hold your thought for just a moment there, scott. let s do a fact check here, because as scott mentioned, it is true that public support for obamacare is at an all-time high right now, according to all across the board, the latest polling. on that flip side, scott, it is also true that a lot of people are seeing their premiums go up under obamacare, in fact 116% up for people in arizona, for example. so as you point out, the bill obamacare is not perfect, white