clear message, but michael actually helps us make our message. there are two reasons. one is the policy reason. the fact is, when you actually eliminate this individual mandate, he s complaining about his prices, where they are, well, guess what, they re going to go up. you know why? because fewer people are going to be part of the pool. that s fundamentally how insurance works. and the second part of this is, like, i mean, for christ sake, i mean, when do we become a country where we re absent any moral compassion? when do we become a country where we don t want to care for others who may be sick or infirmed? i ve never understood this whole trait where all of a sudden we lose our empathy, we lose our compassion and don t care for someone who is less fortunate than we are? but bakari anybody can t just dole out cash to pay for their treatments. the fact is, this is a plan that is imperfect. i hear you. i just want to give let s work together to fix it. we re running out
there are people that are sick. the elderly, infirmed, are in every society before a hurricane. they exist today, and their lives ar at peril. when you see that ship empty, remember, joy, at some point these generators i can hear running all around me at the hospitals, they re going to run out, too. then what kind of crisis are we going to have? you need to bring and get this electrical grid back up and the water flowing to people, and we have the resources. we should have brought them to bear already. my god. congressmangutierrez. much of the islands lack power and the entire territory under curfew. beyond statistics and public advisories, a story of american citizens coming together under the most trying of circumstances. last week i visited the only medical center serving the
this president. congressman, only a minute left, but i would be remiss not to ask you this question. the president s comments come as the house is scheduled to vote on a $36.5 billion disaster aid package. it s being criticized, though, because it does contain some loans for the already cash-strapped island. do you have a sense that congress will end up passing this? i do have a sense that congress will have, and what i will encourage members of congress is to forget about the president going to puerto rico during the day. forget about the vice president going during the day when the sun is out. go at night, when there is no light, when it is dark, and see the hopelessness that exists among the people of puerto rico, and you know what? i have to say this when are we going to allow the sick and infirmed on the verge of death to escape the island of puerto rico? where were the rescue for puerto
do you know that just think about the health crisis. it s a tropical island, wolf. with water everywhere. and mosquitoes breeding everywhere. and the hospitals are overloaded as it is. maybe there are one-third of the hospitals operating and they operate not as full-time. so what i m saying is, let s not congratulate ourselves and say, oh, 16 people died and thousands died, i m telling you, hurricane maria gave us a test. she said, i m taking 16, 16 too many. but you know what she also said to us? it s depending on what you re going to do how many more i take. and i say, let s not let her take one more. let s evacuate people, especially the elderly and the infirmed. this is the united states of america. the richest, most powerful nation in the world. let s act like it. let s not forget public schools in puerto rico, at least most of puerto rico, they will be closed for months to come.
hollywood. cops there say the latest victim had been 93 years old. this comes nearly a week after rescuers found elderly patients sweltering in that facility. the storm knocked out the air conditioning. investigators say the staff didn t call 911 for three days. investigators have launched a criminal investigation now. the center s administrator has said that staffers diligently prepared for the impact of hurricane irma. yet when the air conditioning went out on elderly and infirmed, they did not call 911 for three days. we re watching the aftermath of another natural disaster. one that broke during this hour yesterday. crews are digging through the remains of a school looking for anybody that may have survived yesterday s devastating earthquake in mexico. parents wait for word on their children. agonizing hours go by. firefighters, police,