get kicked off of their health care plan, making sure that there was an adequate safety net. i can tell you that those two things are still the focus of not only the house freedom caucus but my good friends senator lee, senator rand paul, and senator ted cruz. as we look at this today, we are going to be talking about a number of scores in the upcoming days. cbo scores. and what score, that this means and what does it mean for the american people. i can tell you there is one score that the american people will pay attention to. and that is, does it really lower their health care costs and their premiums? that s the only score that really matters. and if this doesn t do it, then we need to make sure that we find something that does do it. and with that i m going to turn it over to the gentleman from ohio who plans to introduce a piece of legislation that really repeals the affordable care act
medicaid. my mistake. the caps there, some of those services include school based health care services, transportation and early childhood supports that come under medicaid. these are critically important for people with disabilities. they have been expanding in recent years with bipartisan support and we would not want to see those rolled back. let me ask you this. they have preserved key things in obamacare, right, which is if you are 26 up to age 26 you can be on your parents health care plan. and the key thing i would think for the commune of people with disabilities is that preexisting conditions don t count against you when you are treeg to get insurance. that s right. and that was a huge i mean, i consider that one of the great legislative achievements that follow a long list of achievements, ford signing the bill integrating our schools. bush, signing the bill for the americans with disabilities act.
really repealing fully and replacing the affordable care act in a meaningful way. and so i don t know that those are mutually exclusive issues as we look at that. we re going to pause just for a moment here to show you on the right side of the skraen. president trump meeting at the white house there and talking a little bit about his health care plan that s come out. let s take a listen to this. we re going to have a lot of victories, a lot of wins, but we have a great team. together we re going to do incredible things for the great citizens of our country. as i said during my joint address to congress, and i think you mostly like that, right? love that. like it a lot. we re witnessing a renewal of the american spirit, a surf optimism and a new national pride which is sweeping across the land. i see it. there s such spirit. whether it s for the business things we re doing or whatever.
america. the tea party wanted to remove that farm owners were slave owners as well. there is this of the by conservatives to somehow soften or redefine slavery. and that s why people are offended by what the secretary had to say. roland, i would ask so many more questions but i think we have to go to capitol hill right now. if you can pause for us. okay. we are expecting republicans now speaking out. this is members of the freedom caucus who have had concerns about the health care bill. let s listen in. campaign with president trump all across north carolina and one of things that he talked about was repeal and replacement. now when he said that, it took on two different meanings. repeal, to many, meant that we would repeal the entire obamacare plan. all the taxes, all the mandates, the medicaid exchanges. and when he talked about replacement, it took on another meaning to others, which it meant that we needed to cover the preexisting conditions, making sure that people didn t
so why would you trust them? chad, of course we are trying get somewhere to repeal obamacare. we know what a disaster it has been for the american people. the people spoke loudly and clearly on november 8:. comment right on target. doing it right s important, not just doing it, doing it right. and that s what today s about. that s why we re going to introduce our legislation tomorrow. that s why we think the two pieces of legislation that mode of getting it done is the proper way to proceed, and that s why we re introducing the bill tomorrow and why we have the bill we introduced weeks before. trust what the vice president said of course. this is the bill. yeah, the vice president is an honorable man and we trust him. i think what there s some difference in the context of what s being said is i think the president and the vice president is saying that the foundation there is a good foundation. we might disagree on that, however, we re committed to looking at that foundation