want to go home. what is the issue with new zealand and why are you still in afghanistan? how long do you think you ll be there? yeah, so new zealand i m sure you guys have heard has done very well with covid management. they have been very strict orders throughout. you get back into the country or apply for an emergency allocation to get back into the country. it s like the lottery. i didn t get any spark and got here and we thought okay, running out of time. let s apply emergency application and they rejected us. they said frankly you are outside some kind of 14 arbitrary day window that we have. even if you were inside it, you haven t met the threshold. you haven t proven that you couldn t get treatment in afghanistan, which we were
yesterday which was absolutely fascinating. it was one of the more dramatic hearings i think i ve heard in quite sometime. the question of are you going to replace obamacare with something that makes sure that everybody that you talk to and everybody that i talk to that is getting treatment for obamacare that couldn t get treatment elsewhere, are they going to still be able to get that under this administration? a lot of these, joe, are trump voters. they need to understand that. yes, they are. a lot of them they are going to have no insurance and they will say i thought he was just kidding. no, he is not kidding! we do not have a replacement. and what i say is work with the democrats and all of us so we can repair this. so important. you talk about people getting up at 4:00 and 5:00 to get to babysitters.
short memory about how bad that individual market was, and continues to be. that s actually a large part of the reason we did health reform, is because people who didn t have health employer-based insurance often went to that market. exactly. either got denied coverage, had carveouts of things. if they had cancer, couldn t get treatment for the cancer or had very, very high prices. and it changed from year-to-year. and i think people forget how bad that market was. exactly. now this is a vital point. the very things that they are trying to defend over on the conservative side, the antis when it comes to the health care reform law, is the very reason why the law morphed into what it is today. the reason why it was addressed. because the private insurance market was so horrible for consumers in this country, the rates going through the roof, the services not being delivered or should i say covered.