going to be afraid that the insurance they ve got, they are going to lose, that s not true either u is it? no, and you know, there s a way to do this correctly and carefully and i think the president elect yesterday what he tweeted out, be careful. that s a good ammunition for us to bare in mind. remember when obamacare started, they weren t so careful. i was one of the 5 million people who lost perfectly high-deductible healthcare plan. so, yeah, do be careful. one of the things that really strikes me is i talk to people about this and i have for years, is they are tired of someone up in washington, d.c. messing with their insurance and to tell you the truth, wasn t of the things that i would really like to do, we ve got to move more of this activity back to our states, that s where it belongs, that s why health care wasn t in the constituteution and it was a tenth amendment issue and our states are much more cable of
brian: you can t keep what everyone likes, you need more financing for that. you need billions of dollars to keep kids on up to 26 years old. steve: sure. ainsley: why we voted on the congressman to find a way to do that. steve: one of the congressman who is working on a plan is dr. michael burgess from the great state of texas. he was with us earlier. he reminded us one of the reasons it doesn t work is the gigantic deductibles. he knows it personally because he has been on obamacare. we forget that access to insurance isn t always access to care. when i had unsubsidized obamacare policy a few years ago i had a big deductible, $6,000. kidney stone at three a.m., you have $4,000 emergency room hard to pay, is specially folks that have trouble covering cost of a into the tire. the coverage issue is myth.
effect to ensure that there s an orderly transition during the period after we repeal obamacare. steve: but how would that work and what does congress think? let s talk to texas representative doctor, works in congress, good morning to you, congressman. good morning, i m still just a regular guy, thank you. steve: you are still a regular guy. we are looking for straight talk regarding this. the democrats make it sound like, these republicans are going to blow up everything and 20 million people aren t going to have health care, that s just a lie, isn t it? i don t want to that s a little strong. steve: that s not true, is it? they shouldn t do, correct. steve: so the big question and what they re doing right now is they we are going to run some sound on this a little later on is they re pushing kind of a scare campaign so the people are
the bus. if you re a senior, you know medicaid almost half of medicaid is about long-term health care, you want grandma living in the guest room? you repeal the affordable care act. ainsley: i would invite my mom to move in the guest room. i would love for her to move in. grandma used to be in the guest room and now with obamacare she moved out and now she will have to move back in? the family is going to have to replace bandages and pay cash. steve steve obamacare simply does not work. my daughter is on obamacare. she s been on it ainsley: does she like that? steve: everything she pays for is out of pocket. if she has a catastrophic illness, it would kick in but here is the thing, she and many people who work in her business are reluctant to go to the doctor because it s all out of their pocket, so for them it
marketplace are going to quickly be pulling out, leaving patients with fewer coverage options and worst-case scenario we could have a collapse of the insurance market which would potentially lead us to possible bailout from federal level. ainsley: wow, that is pretty scary. so as a physician, you talked to your patients and dealing with cancer, you don t turn patients away i m sure. you re dealing with obamacare. what in your opinion does congress need to change it, make it better for everyone and american people? well the good news we re not starting from scratch. we have seven republican proposals already ready to go right now in what we can doreplace the affordable care act. part of it is we need to be giving states a little more individuality. we re a diverse nation, what is working in california are some of the provisions of the aca next door in arizona the patients are drowning in skyrocketing premiums in unsustainable system. so we need to by having block grants when it come