also, why do we have this overinflated insurance that s loaded with all of these preventions? does anyone know out there that prevention is running on a treadmill or eating properly? why is it always some test that you get. so the cost of premiums are going up because these plans are so loaded with so many different. pete: mandated. mandated. clayton: history with tom price he did something interesting in 2015. he couldn t get it through congress. tell us what he did then that may be a precursor of what we are going to see now. the empowering patients first act in 2015. it is very similar to what paul ryan, the better way which paul ryan proposed in 2016. the two of them have worked very closely together. again, it s tax credits. block grants to the state medicate expansion, clayton could stay in but it auto would be funded by block glants. the states would have to work on efficiencies. also making medicare, adding a
obamacare were repealed, 3 million could lose jobs. state and local governments can lose billions in taxes. health care is an important engine in our country. what you re underscoring, it s not just the people on the plan. but a lot of people who would who are either directly or indirectly involved in the plan? yeah. a lot of people think that obama care is only for people on the exchanges or people who are getting coverage through medicate expansion. a lot of people don t realize it has many tentacles. it made some revisions to medicare. used to have the doughnut hole, where seniors had to pay for prescriptions. seniors will pay less for prescriptions. now, everyone can get prescription everyone can get contraceptives for free and mammograms on the employer plan.
obamacare premiums a set to surge an average of 22% next year. that means consumers will be paying an average of $296 a month total. joining me now, a hillary clinton surrogate and democratic congressman, reuben gallego from the state of arizona. congressman, good morning. good morning. thank you for having me. thank you. president obama s legacy is a key selling point in the clinton campaign. how does this obamacare news not hurt her? well, i think because there s no other plan. donald trump has no plan to actually replace the affordable health care act. the affordable health care act has brought insurance to millions of people who previously did not have it. if you re someone in arizona who has benefitted from the medicate expansion, for the first time probably in decades, you probably have health insurance. there are millions of families, especially in some of these
we subsequently denied medicate expansion and prohibited state exchanges and done everything within our power to stop this bill. i believe i m going to be the 51st senator to repeal this bill. what about the no cost birth control? you know, i think it s not that expensive. i don t think it s something that we need to do. the country needs to do. people can do it for themselves. what do you think they can do for themselves. pay for their birth control. it s not that expensive. they will be spending more than we ever have before. what we found was in the state of virginia when ken cuccinelli was running for governor, our political work was very, very powerful and very effective. we know that when we make a strong investment here politically, women will win and the candidates that support women s health will win. the democrats are waging war
governors kind of like it. last month pennsylvania governor tom corbett became the tenth to back under the affordable care act. the reason? it s a really good idea. according to the atlantic there s only one republican incumbent in a state that went for obama despite federally funded medicaid, indeed primary to the obama care rage plaguing washington republicans things are going more smoothly for governors who have supported parts of the affordable care act. michigan governor rick snyder served from a 4 point deficit to 8 point lead in his re-election bid after campaigning on medicate expansion. in deep red states like georgia where governor nathan diehl opposes, 60% support medicaid expansion. unsurprisingly this fact doesn t sit too well with rush limbaugh. the people depending on liberals are still living