people don t know that. nobody hears it. nobody talks about it. but your premiums are going to. we re going to have the cross-state lines knocked out. and you ll have insurance companies bidding. you ll have forms of insurance that you don t even know about right now. because that s the way it works. there s going to be tremendous competition. so your premiums will be substantially lower. repeals burdensome taxes. big. we ll restore choices. the bill also provides for expanded coverage option. so you re going to have a tremendously expanded coverage and options. we ll stabilize insurance markets. the markets right now, by the way, are gone. they re a mess. and depending on what happens here, depending what happens over the next couple of weeks, the insurance companies are all fleeing. we ll protect preexisting condition coverage. you listen to the democrats, they say, oh, they re giving up you re going to have
they may have small premiums. they may have some deductibles, some co-pays because everyone need to give a little bit. we have to cut medicaid expansion and our last administration our federal deficit was record high. the current administration has to do something to correct that and a part of that is going to be less medicaid funding. ainsley: next thing that they address in the article is essential health benefits are no longer covered under the ahca. essential health benefits. that sounds like a myth to me. it s false and you know it the actual law actually still requires that we core them. in the waiver states would you will see much more coverage option. going away in the form. in the current form going away from cost sharing. a lot of people had complaints about that under the affordable care act. they didn t understand why they had to pay for someone else s maternity care. less cost sharing. they will be able to buy plans that are pertinent to their family s need. ainsley: it
an all-night protest on capitol hill. just hours before the senate is slated to debate supreme court nominee judge neil gorsuch. this seat is a stolen seat. this is an individual who was rated by the provisional analyst as being more conservative than anyone who serves on the court. heather: senator merkley did not receive any backup from his liberal colleagues until senator dick durbin joined him about an hour ago. and some more evidence proving that obamacare is flat lining. a city in tennessee could be ground zero of the affordable care act s explosion. collapsing all together. humana the only health insurer that offers coverage in knoxville pulled the plug on obamacare nationwide. once they opt out, that leaves 40,000 people in that area with a zero coverage option. and an espn host thrown out of the game, why? because she is a conservative.
that is want to keep it, revoking it in somors that don t want to keep it. keeping different parts of it. you had republican governors, we want to keep the medicaid expansion part of it for low-income people who need access to care, so there s a lot of different complications because this bill was so big and so complicated and each state kind of has their own interest at play here. heather: one of the things that tucker carlson pointed out as he continue today speak to jonathan gruber, 20% of on the insurance exchanges only have one coverage option as well. so that doesn t really benefit them. that s another when republicans are thinking about replacing this law, they want to give more flexibility, some say, particularly to the states and give people more options. the obama pledge that you could keep your doctor, osks, proved to be false and a lot of people react today that. obamacare remains unpopular but
as secretary of health and human services, we ll carry out the law you pass. i appreciate that. in your mind, though, does the repeal of the affordable care act include a repeal of the expansion of medicaid that was part of the passage of the affordable care act? any reform or improvement that i would envision for any portion of the affordable care act would be one that would include an opportunity for individuals to gain coverage, the kind of coverage, again, they want to the highest quality health care. that s not the question i ask. i apologize, mr. chairman, i realize i m at the end of my time. do you believe a repeal i mean, this is what the president ran on repeal of the affordable care act includes the repeal of the expansion of medicaid that was a fundamental part of the affordable care act? again, that s a decision you alley would make. that s true. what i believe is any reform or improvement must include a coverage option and opportunity for every single ameri