dealing with the reality of the presidency. you know, i am not in a position to offer any kind of detailed plan, but i am in a position to speak on behalf of millions of hispanic business owners and american small business owners and again, where we can add value, we d be happy to do it on a wide array of issues beyond health care. beyond immigration. we want to talk to them about trade, international trade. you know, the economy, jobs. moving this country forward and making sure american small business has a place at the table and our voice is heard loud and clear by the new administration. javier, thanks for joining me. thank you. appreciate it. back to the hill where cae e ie kasie hunt has been standing by all morning. they were energized. chuck schumer all butsa, come get us. we ve had a small change of
that. and, in fact, if the republicans go ahead with repealing obamacare without any sort of replacement plan, and if they go along just with repeal and delay it will throw marketplaces into chaos. they are already in chaos. 18 out of the 23 co-ops have failed. it s already how has it failed when it s covered 20 million people? it s failed because costs are going up. in tennessee, costs are going up 63%. 18 out of 23 co-ops this plan set up as the model for single payer have failed. democrats have had six years to say we accept it. we wants to do this. we wanted it to work but it s not working. they had six years to try to fix it. and now they need to listen to the voters and help republicans unwind what s a failure. democrats have had six years to fix it. in those six years when we ve offered solutions to fix it, you know who hasn t gone along with the democrats? republicans. you know who hasn t offered any comprehensive, coherent plan to
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when we had a cost problem. so the next step for republicans, and democrats, if they re willing to be reasonable and help is to address cost. obamacare has driven up costs. our first principle has to say the 155 million americans who are in employee-sponsored coverage, we need to get their costs down. how? that s the first id d like you to please articulate for me how. what is the plan to do that? the first thing you have to do is get the government mandates out. have the government stop taking such a heavy hand. only 8 million have been paying a penalty for failing to buy a product they didn t want to buy. we need to fix things for those 8 million. we need to take all the government s heavy-handed deciding what has to be in every plan in every state. that s been driving premiums up, driving deductibles up. and the 155 million americans in employee-sponsored care are tired of paying for this. i want to address some of the points in there. if you look at the costs and
you re talking about costs going up. the average cost for a family has gone up significantly less than had we not implemented obamacare. it has slowed the growth of health care costs and made it more affordable. if you want to talk about the people enrolled in obamacare, let s look at the most respected pollsters, kaiser, commonwealth. over 80% of obamacare consumers approve of the care they have. and these are hard facts for republicans. it is very easy to burn down a house. it s a lot harder to rebuild it out of the ashes. and today, 20 million more people have health insurance because of obamacare. the uninsured rate is at the lowest in history. it s been cut in half. and you have trump administration officials saying that, you know, if you have health care today, you will still have it under president trump. and there s no plan out there right now that would ensure