much less expensive and better. part of achieving that is targeting drug companies to negotiate lower prices. mr. trump offered a pep talk sang the congress c saying the congress cannot get cold feet. that is the message carried by 40,000 people from maine to california on sunday. democratic candidate bernie sanders appeared at one of the rallies in michigan where he spoke to cnn. millions of people think it is insane to repeal the affo affordable care act without replacement. you cannot throw 20 million people off health insurance. raise the cost of prescription drugs. do away with important patient protections. you cannot do that unless you have another plan in its place. some republicans have expressed concern about rushing to repeal obamacare without replacement plan on the table.
forced to sign up for new ones. it looks like there s only about a million people who have acquired insurance in the exchanges who didn t have insurance before. and over the medicaid program, i would say it would be 1 million to 2 million. that s at most 3 million people are newly insured out of a population of 50 million. that is a pretty puny result. tomorrow, as we continue our obamacare check-up, we ll break down some of the promises on patient protections and the patient s bill of rights, and look at where the law is now, what s working, what s not, and why. stocks were up today. the dow added 89. the s&p 500 picked up 13. the nasdaq gains 53. still ahead, a long overdue tribute to some of america s military heroes. we ll explain. first, obama nominees just aren t what they used to be. we look at why democrats are not rubber stamping the picks. check it out.
attempt to fix this regulation? that is right. my attempt to make what the president was saying come true, he didn t like it. he likes the mantra, the mantra was still on the white house website at 4:00 this afternoon, saying if you like what you have got, you can keep it. and you don t have to do a thing to keep your plan. that is wrong. it has been wrong for three years. and they won t change it. at the time max baccus called your move to try to fix this a political stunt, senator tom harkin says this was another attempt on a pledge to undo critically important patient protections. senator durbin accused you of trying to empower the insurance companies, and on and on it went. did you feel like the message went through? the president s mantra
attempt to fix this regulation? that is right. my attempt to make what the president was saying come true, he didn t like it. he likes the mantra, the mantra was still on the white house website at 4:00 this afternoon, saying if you like what you have got, you can keep it. and you don t have to do a thing to keep your plan. that is wrong. it has been wrong for three years. and they won t change it. at the time max baccus called your move to try to fix this a political stunt, senator tom harkin says this was another attempt on a pledge to undo critically important patient protections. senator durbin accused you of trying to empower the insurance companies, and on and on it went. did you feel like the message went through? the president s mantra
exchanges and find another one. that s right. so there was a little revision in that language. and obviously addressing a criticism that we ve ban hearee herring the last few days. another revision, he said if you like your health care plan, and it is working,aring the last fe. another revision, he said if you like your health care plan, and it is working, you can keep it. and what he was referring to, it is work to go him means it is offering these patient protections. you can t have your premiums raised, the caps on how much insurance companies can pay out go away. so, yeah, a couple of tweaks in the language there, but again dressing some important criticism. and gloria, we heard president obama acknowledge very candidly that the website is not working. he s not happy about it. but when it came to defending the plan, he talked about people who were grateful, not those