deficit. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell said it isn t perfect but deserves a vote. senate will soon consider legislation that s designed to ensure seniors on medicare don t lose access to their doctors. it s a solution to a broken medicare payment system that has vexed congressional leaders of both parties literally for years. reporter: ted cruz, a 2016 candidate for president, announced today he would not paurt the bill saying, quote, any deal should be fully paid for and include significant and structural reforms to medicare. the house vote was 392-37 overwhelmingly bipartisan and members are urging the senate to get it done. if they want to pull the medical profession through the rat hole and the public through the rat hole one more time, that s their privilege but we helped them with a solution. if the money for the doc fix stays in the deficit, if you earn $15,000 it would be 4.33,
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in california, there are 25,000 people whose job it is to answer the phone and tell people whether they are eligible for government provided insurance. virtually i happen to know this because of the foundation that i sit on, the foundation for health coverage education. it turns out that an amazingly high percentage of people who are eligible for government-provided programs like medicaid and medicare don t know it. why? because the government is ineffective at determining their eligibility. example after example after example. get back to the actual question that i asked. i answered your question. i said you think that it can be implemented? what i m saying is we have now a situation in obama care where we have insufficient competition in private industry for insurance. and we have the government. you mentioned that playing a larger and larger role in what they will pay for.
are asked about the individual provisions of the affordable care act, whether it s making sure kids don t get kicked off of their insurance plan because of asthma or other pre-existing conditions or the fact that seniors on medicare don t have to fall into the prescription drug doughnut hole, people support it a lot. what you ve seen is a massive, a massive misinformation campaign. a campaign of distortion and scare mongerring. i think as the other part of the law kicks in and people see that it will provide millions of americans with more affordable care that all that scare mongering will be proven false. in fact i think that s what the opponents are most nervous about, that all their negative claims will be proven false and that people will see that these exchanges provide more affordable care, in addition to the parts that are already today providing help to millions of americans. all right, maryland congressman chris van hollen, thanks for your time this morning.