this phase one because it s not a revenue or spending issue for the federal government. so it can t be in phase one. but phase two and three which may be concurrent in phase one, but two and three we look forward to bringing solutions to solve the remarkable challenge that patients have across this land with the increasing price of drugs. i have gotta run. you ve got a guy here who is gonna answer the rest of the questions. thank you very much. god bless kwra. thank you, dr. price. let me just kind of continue on. the bottom line i think that secretary is making is that obama care sought to cover 20 million people and in the process it drove up costs for everybody whether or not you are in the exchange or not. most people get their insurance through their employers. older population get their health care through medicare. low income population get their health care through medicade and veterans get their insurance through tri care. what we re talking about here is
they re going to be in a very very worse scenario than they are now. more and more people if you re on medicade, which serves so many low income americans, as i mentioned, they have a card. that card does not allow them to go to doctor after doctor or saying we re not going to take medicade or tri care. i would ask those senators, what are you doing to get them insured again. for too many americans they have a card but they don t have insurance. that s a big distinction to make. they re the ones who have the problem right now. they ve got a medicade card and nowhere to go. and what we need to do is make sure that low income americans, veterans, small business owners, individus who desperately need health care have options and affordability. one other piece of this. you can break down the cost of the insurance itself through new
it crowds out competition. it drives up prices. it stifles entprepb tphaouralship. doctors leaving the markets. that should concern people. when you ve got veterans that can t because most of the time medicade and tri care are tried together. so when you have those systems not accepted by doctors, the lowest people on the low income scale, people that have served our country have fewer choice. that alone should be a problem for many people. but the premium spikes are not problem. again, even if you are in the exchange, you re seeing over and over again that happen. you re also seeing young people decide they d rather just pay a penalty because the cost of those basic programs is out of reach for a lot of young people who are just entering the job market. but again, i think the greatest illustration of the differences in the approach is that size. our bill which is a tent of the size does repeal and replace in what their big just did in massive bureaucracy and government.
certain things at the time to implement pieces of obama care that we now have to act backwards and go almost in the same steps to do what they did to lay it out. we ve got to reveal . and we ve got to replace it. it literally depends on how that was done. john frederick? sean, in the replacement plan, it says that the states that accepted the medicare expansion money would continue to be funded. so what is the message you have to republicans state legislators that thought they were fiscally responsible in rejecting medicade expansion in their state and now they didn t get the federal dollars on either end? what is your i think what we need to do is to make sure, as the president said in his statement that secretary price did, we ve got
you had 974 pages that people struggled to read after ward to figure out what had just gotteden passed and the consequences were, frankly, devastating. so your point about keeping your doctor, in a lot of cases you ve lost your doctor. for a people reasons. one, they may not participate in the plan. they may not take insurance at all any more. two three, they may not take medicade. and the list goes on and on about why they might not be there. or the plan, the plan you got, is not yet accessible. one-third of all counties in the united states no longer take medicade or excuse me have only one plan that you can choose from. so it s a fact right now that you in most cases you have no choice. in many cases you ve lost that ability. our goal is to add more choice and more competition. right now the government tells you you must have this plan or you will pay a penalty. and within this plan here s what you have to have. we ve lost the element of choice and competition in health care.