with the barren counties across the country that don t have insurance carriers any longer and premiums are going up by 30-40%. we got together and said let s stabilize the marketplace to help leaders like dan lapinski on the other side. we had members who said 80% is a victory and let s put that together and you can get it done. arthel: do you agree? i completely agree. the american people are sick and tired of democrats and republicans fighting over healthcare. they want us to work together to find ways that we can make healthcare more affordable, accessible and that s what we did. tom did a great job leading on their public side and we are not going to grant everything. it doesn t solve every problem with the aca but this is a really good step forward for the american people. arthel: guzman lapinski, allstate with you because how do you preserve coverage for millions of americans during the cross the opponents of obamacare that are not working? we have a deadline coming up. right
compromise that will stabilize the individual market place. we already have movement in the senate so this is gaining traction and were trying to break the gridlock and the critical pieces how the senate takes this and lamar alexander taking the lead by announcing the public hearing in the senate on the individual market place is a great step. the american people deserve that. arthel: the american people deserve absolutely to unclog the gridlock in dc and congressman lapinski, i ask you, at the four of your mind as you work on this new bill what about the folks who may fall through the cracks? this plan will help to lower premiums, make healthcare more affordable, it will also help to draw more health insurers back into the market because they have some gotten out because the fear of not being supported in
that reduction payments not coming in so this will help to stabilize the market and that will help everyone. arthel: the president said let this expire and let those cost for the insurance companies skyrocket. this goes against that idea. obviously, one of the first republicans to endorse and i still support the president and endorses efforts to change washington but i hope he looks at this as an opportunity to show that we are making good faith efforts in congress to deal with the individual marketplace. i understand that if we aren t going to do anything in congress they will see the market place destabilized and maybe that is the political pressure that has to move senators to take action. my hope is that you don t do that because then millions of americans are in harm s way enough lasting we should be doing. arthel: congressman lapinski,