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emmanuel. he was special adviser to president obama when the affordable care act was being dwitzed. there s certain about repealing and not having a replacement. let s start with what you refer to as the nightmarish stories. you heard the stories ron reported out of west virginia. do you think that could be repeated in other states. well for sure. i mean, i think many, many people have received real benefit in terms of their health improvement through the affordable care act. they ve gotten in this case life saving drugs, counseling, mental health benefits, heart transplants, all sorts of things, cancer care, through the affordable care act. when you cover 22 million americans that is a lot of health care and for many of these americans they had health care delayed. the congressional budget office when it looked at it, if we repeal out a replacement, 18 million people almost immediately losing coverage and
reform of education in probably a decade. it took working on both sides of the aisle to do that. we passed a great reform of fda, making it easier to get life saving drugs to the market. we couldn t give a hearing to a supreme court nominee. it s what chuck schumer said back when george w. bush was president, what joe biden had said. i hope you can, but there s a lot of blame to go around. anyway, senator, thank you fortune joining us. you re watching our breaking news coverage of rallies around the world even as far as antarctica, as they continue in los angeles and new york city. tastes. honey, what do you want for dinner tonight? oh, whatever you re making. cheesy chipotle pork quesadillas? mmmm. ravioli lasagna bake?
course is going to shkreli himself has said this many times create shareholder value, return on equity and it is going to make a lot of money, it doesn t settle well if it reduces access to life saving drugs. that s really why this whole thing blew up. the fact that he got arrested is pretty phenomenal for basically ripping off investors allegedly, of course, with a series of hedge funds that he did before. so he s got a pattern of behavior, if you kind of lay out what s in the indictment, of being a little bit duplicitous on how he s doing his business deals. what he s doing, it s really important to know with this pharmaceutical approach, both the turig pharmaceutical is legal. there is nothing illegal about this. it just doesn t sit well with a lot of people, and particularly in the health care industry. i think they are looking at ways that say if this should or shouldn t be brought under more
played a big part in that is george w. bush, who decided in 2003, under no pressure to do so, to spend billions and billions of dollars providing anti-retroviral drugs to africa, to victims in countries in africa that could not afford the sort of treatment when he started this program, it s called president s emergency plan for aids relief, only 50,000 people in on the continent of africa, epicenter of the aids epidemic, 50,000 were receiving these life saving drugs, and right now, the total is something like 8 million with 4 million people being directly provided drugs through this u.s. program that george wfrmts bush started. it is, i think, in my opinion, the best thing he did as