i voted for him only solely because he said he was going to help us. he s going to put the coal miners back to work and we re going to have health care. we need health care. everybody in this room needs health care. when you think about him, he made those promises, you re looking for him to deliver on those promises. absolutely. on health care. absolutely. on health care, yes. let me talk to you for a second. you work in the mines yourself, huh? yes. i m a retired miner. i never dreamed that i d get to thank you personally myself for the bill that you have co-sponsored and the senate bill 175, the miners protection act which i m one of those miners that will lose his health care at tnd of april if they don t pass that law. i come from local 1440. it s a little old town on down the river from where mcdowell s water goes to when it leaves
when you think about him, he made those promises to you. you re looking for him to deliver on those promises on health care? absolutely. on health care. definitely. i mean, some people are elderly. they have no way to work. they have no way if they can t work, like mr. evans said, they can t eat. they ve got to buy some kind of pill that costs $300 a piece. like my mom. she had cancer. some of the pills she had to buy, thank god by dad could take care of her bills but some of the pills were 2, $300 a piece. who can afford that? nobody can. you worked in the mines yourself, huh? yes. retired miner and i never dreamed that i d get to thank you personally myself to for the bill that you have co-sponsored senate bill 175, the miners protection act. i m one of those miners that could lose i m one of those
disease and it s very needed. that is mostly funded by the affordable care act. senator, if you look at this bill being proposed in congress, whether you support it or oppose it, one thing you d notice is that the people who take it on the chin the most are rural folks. that s just a fact about the way the bill is structured. you can think the bill is great or rural hospitals. this bill, whether you think it s great or not and you want more choice, it does seem inevitable that rural hospitals, rural health care delivery and rural folks will take it on the chin the most with this bill. the irony is, i think what you re suggesting, is that many of the folks who voted for trump are going to be hurt the most.
nobody denies that when a piece of legislation impacts tens of millions of people and many hundreds of billions of dollars, it s significant. to the best of my knowledge, as of today, what the republicans want to do, because they don t want a discussion like this about what s in the bill, what they want to do is pass it in a very brief period of time in the house, bring it to the senate without any hearings at all. unprecedented for a major piece of legislation like that. so there is a reason why the american medical association opposes it, why the american hospit association oppose it is, why aarp and many groups, many other organizations oppose them, because it does the things that judy talked about. it s going to result in people dying because you don t have health insurance, you get sick and you don t go to the doctor.
one of the reasons again, we can agree with the affordable care act, you don t like the affordable care act, whatever, nobody denies that when a piece of legislation impacts tens of millions of people and many hundreds of billions of dollars, it s significant. to the best of my knowledge, as of today, what the republicans want to do, because they don t want a discussion like this about what s in the bill, what they want to do is pass it in a very brief period of time in the house, bring it to the senate without any hearings at all. unprecedented for a major piece of legislation like that. so there is a reason why the american medical association opposes it, why the american hospital association oppose it is, why aarp and many groups, many other organizations oppose them, because it does the things that judy talked about. it s going to result in people