sebelius. great to see you. what do you think of the polls that shows people more happy than ever with the now aca. well, i think it makes sense. once people have benefits, once they figure out how the law works, once they enroll in insurance and then somebody comes along and says we re going to take this away, i think that becomes a very difficult puzzle. up until now, it has been very theoretical. we ll change it. but these folks are saying we re going to get rid of it. and i think what you see is an american public that says, wait, i may not like parts of it. i think the costs may be high. i would like more choice of doctors, but don t get rid of it. that to me makes great sense. and i think that s what s going to make it very complicated for the republican congress to actually move to the next step of repealing and replacing the law that s been in place for almost seven years.
they were all really saying we re up for grabs here. listen to us. amy, one of the signs we saw concerned ant immigration rights. it s already been a flash point as you know as we look at some of the legal action that we think will be happening in the coming years. how do you think these marchers animate organizations like the aclu or legal defense funds going forward? i think they could give it or at least have the opportunity to give it tremendous energy. i think that what the aclu will be up against, obviously, is congress and the executive branch that have don t seem to be particularly receptive to immigrants rights. the supreme court is going to be again, once again, predominantly conservative court. so it will be hard to make leeway as well for them. thank you so much, amy, beth.
has their back. i am with you 1,000%. i know maybe sometimes you haven t gotten the backing that you have wanted. and you re going to get so much backing. maybe you are going to say, please don t give us so much backing. during the visit, trump paid respects to the cia wall of stars. that s where he was standing in front of, the memorial that honors the lives of fallen agents and he also aired his personal grievances. take a listen. i have a running war with the media. they are among the most dishonest human beings on earth. i turn on one of the networks, and they show an empty field. i said, wait a minute, i made a speech. i looked out. the field was it looked like a million, million and a half people. we have the all-time record in the history of time magazine. like if tom brady is on the cover, it s one time because he won the super bowl. i ve been on it 15 times this
this is a very big issue, as you know so well personally. trillions of dollars here. as you look at some of those specifics that president trump would like to do here, he s looking at keeping some of those parts that are good, pre-existing conditions, coverage there, allowing young people to stay with their parents insurance up to the age of 26. but then on the flip side, right, re-doing and replacing, repealing as you were just saying here something that lowers the cost of health care overall. there is a revenue cost problem there. well, i think there is. and again if they can come up with that plan, making sure that the people who now have coverage don t lose it, lowering costs for everyone, making sure that insurance companies don t get to go back to picking and choosing who gets coverage based on a pre-existing condition, based on the fact that you could get pregnant, based on the fact you are a cancer sur visor,
of treatments cost a huge amount of money but we as a society aren t willing to say no? in the original bill counseling toward the ends of life and aren t we have to get to the tough moral issue who gets care and under what circumstances? i don t think we need to get to the rationing issue. about end of life, i think a lot of people have a misconception we are spending 40% to 50% on the health care dollars on end of life care. it s really 10% of dollars go to end of life care. in my opinion, i ve said we need to focus on improving the quality there. we really need to focus on getting people the care and getting the care that they want. there are 40% of hospitals in america that don t have those care services even in the hospital or when you send a patient home. that should be our focus and then people will feel a lot more comfortable with knowing that they can go home and be with their family and get high quality care. right now, that s not really available. i do think focusing on ta