pretext that refusing to pay the country s bills would somehow make those bills disappear. no one denies this nation has work to do to reduce its debt, but republicans say this country should default on its debt today. they re the same republicans who ran up the debt just a few short years ago. these same republicans charged more than $4 trillion in tax breaks for the rich on the american taxpayers credit card. they paid for two wars costing about $2 trillion with borrowed money. and they rang up $400 billion tab for a medicare prescription drug plan, and madam president, they ran up the nation s credit card for years and years on lots of stuff. now, madam president, there was one conversation on one of the sunday shows today that said we were trying to break the cap set
after three months, his care had had reached the one-million dollar cap set by the company. here s travis s mom and dad sharing their story. $1 million seems like a lot of money that you d never think you d exceed that in a lifetime, but my son exceeded that in three months. you think you re working, you re paying for insurance, you re going to be covered. they just got an illness they couldn t help and it s not fair to take away their insurance or to tell them they can never be on insurance again. the turner family was helped by the affordable care act. insurance companies can no longer deny kids like travis. they can t put a lifetime cap on health care either. travis is back on his family s insurance. he s had a liver transplant, is in remission and is now in first grade. quite a story. the ed show reached out to the romney campaign about the former
back pedaling on a right-wing radio show. i m going to repeal obama care. i have said that on the campaign trail i think every single day. obama care must be repealed in its entirety. now what? what do you think of that? repealing the affordable care act would have a devastating impact on millions of hard-working americans. folks like the turner family out of ohio. craig turner is a steel worker. he s able to provide health insurance for his family through his job. but even with a good health care insurance plan the turners were forced to fend for themselves when their son travis got sick. he was just nine months old when he was diagnosed with a rare form of liver cancer. he was placed in intensive care, required a ventilator and chemo and had most of his liver removed. travis was kicked off his father s insurance plan because after three months, his care had had reached the one-million dollar cap set by the company. here s travis s mom and dad sharing their story.
obama care must be repealed in its entirety. now what? what do you think of that? repealing the affordable care act would have a devastating impact on millions of hard-working americans. folks like the turner family out of ohio. craig turner is a steel worker. he s able to provide health insurance for his family through his job. but even with a good health care insurance plan the turners were forced to fend for themselves when their son travis got sick. he was just nine months old when he was diagnosed with a rare form of liver cancer. he was placed in intensive care, required a ventilator and chemo and had most of his liver removed. travis was kicked off his father s insurance plan because after three months, his care had had reached the one-million dollar cap set by the company. here s travis s mom and dad sharing their story.
a gun to our heads come september 29th, when everyone is rushing around to pass these bills, nobody reads them and late-night meetings. it s nuts. it s a terrible way to run a railroad, especially a $3.7 trillion railroad, and that s got to change. if we can get the majority back in 2013, elect a republican president. that being said, there s a cap set for 2012, which starts october 1st, and congress will have to come back in september and make decisions about how to spend the money thunder cap. under that cap. greta: that the hour, there s deep division in the senate, and the division is not along party lines. nor graham is not giving senate minority leader mitch mcconnell, also a republican, the republican leader, the vote he s looking for. nor lindsey graham joins us. i take it you re a no. you can take it to the bank. greta: why are you a no to this? number one, you can say with