and choose when you re president. and immigration activists have kelt with that and feel like they ve been left at the bottom of the to do list. for a number of them, they feel there hasn t been legislation under the past two democratic presidents and they re calling for bide ton put muscle behind it and not just focus on the pandemic. he s under pressure to get something through and the reconciliation bill is seen as the last train leaving the station. there s a lot of activists trying to get their issues into the reconciliation bill. we ll have to see if the immigration folks can get their daca plans into this. if not, it may be a long time before they see legislation. inside the white house do they have a different attitude now than a couple months ago? i think in terms of migrants, the message is don t come. we want to instill hope in the region. in terms of the latest ruling, they are coming out and they are putting in statements they support daca recipients and the
the president has engaged all three branches of government in an all-out assault and other features of the aca. the centerpiece of his first year in office was a full attack by the congress. the congress has to somewhat bow to public opinion and public opinion was strongly against taking away health care rights. he s been putting forward an onslaught of activity not paying insurance companies, removing the ability to help people sign up for coverage, offering junk insurance plans to compete with aca plans and pushing up prices and then, of course, most recently now, perhaps the gravest threat is the judicial threat. nominating somebody really to be an unappointed arbiter of people s health care rights and as orrin hatch said today, they are sure to get an aca to the court, that is a call for judge
actuaries, the folks that actually do the calculations for the technical term that is a death spiral, an actuarial phenomenon, explicitly disputes the claim. you have mario molina of molina health care which runs a bunch of aca plans, he said that taking away the mandate, as your plan proposes, could push premiums up 30% in a year and inaugurate a death spiral. well, one things is for sure, that wouldn t take getting used to because premiums on average have gone up over 25% this year alone and in seven states they ve gone up over 50%. right, but obamacare has been a total failure. and 16 counties in tennessee i understand that, congressman. a health care plan. so if the solution to obamacare, if you say the bad old days of obamacare premium hike 250%, this new plan will push premiums up 30% next year, that s not the solution. that s not if solution and that s not what i said. what i ve said is our plan is going to increase competition.
problems, greta. as you know we tried every way possible to find some coverage and every time we went in one direction we got turned around and had to start trying again. come to find out the other day that the insurance companies that are offering aca plans in south carolina are not offering the doctors and hospitals that we have been accustomed to using. so now we re in a quandary. we don t know what to do. and i found out from an insurance agent today i was trying to work with that since we didn t get our application in by this past weekend we are definitely going to be without coverage january 1st. we will go one month without any coverage. you know, nick, i find it absolutely cruel that your family has had to deal with cancer and i know from just studying for the segment tonight that your wife can t have the on