coverage. i did health care law part of my time. when you go to high-risk pools, pre-aca, they had high deductible six to 12 months of no coverage, really prepremiums becoming unaffordable. the $8 billion every expert says is woefully short. americans will die if this becomes law, so let s hope it never becomes law why do you think the gop had enough people to vote for it if it s an bad as dean is describing. the first measure, yes, that had 17% approval rating, but they went babb and sharpened their pencils, listened to their constituents. certainly this has a lot more support and in return republicans in congress. otherwise it never would have passed. yes today the rallies cry from democrats is people will die. i think that s a big exaggerate. they re threateni republicans w
could charge them premiums that made access to coverage out of the question. are they wrong, alice stewart? yes, they re wrong. let me refresh everyone s memory when president obama said if you like your doctor, you can keep it. that s not true. when he promised greater access to health care and lower costs, that s not true. in addition to what kay leigh said, many counties in this country have one health care option. that s not greater access to care. and aetna just announced they re pulling out of virginia. the access to quality health care has gone down. can i just say i m not finished yet. let her finish. i ll let you get in here. let her finish. in regard to the medical association s comment with regard to preexisting conditions, that was a concern. they addressed that with an amendment today which said they re going to add $8 billion to this for those that decide to opt out. $8 billion provided by that,
probably. why? because you can listen to pundits on tv who defend president trump, no matter what he says, whatever lie he tells, or you can listen to the american medical association, the aarp, doctors, nurses, everyone with a stake in the health care system came out opposed to this bill, because it will drop coverage for millions of people. doctors said people with preexisting conditions, asthma, basic health care conditions, like asthma, any kind of condition that was a preexisting condition will now be able to be discriminated against. so, you know, pundits on tv can tell you things like, oh, it was so bad before. this bill got worse in order to pass the house. it got worse by beyond dumping people off health care, 24 million people, then being particularly cruel to people with preexisting conditions.
say you know what s going to happen. it gives discretion to the federal government to defer to states that have the programs. quickly, i have to get to the break, but how is it not true? why? because we actually many high-risk pools have failed miserably. have you read the bill? the standards in the bill for states to do this, there are no standards at all. any state can basically say they want to get rid of preexisting coverage. i ve read the bill. i have, too. we ll be right back with this group. i m just a bill i m only a bill and if they vote for me on capitol hill well, then, i m off to the white house where i ll wait in a line with a lot of other bills for
you go in to i let you finish, let me finish. $800 billion will be cut which affects children and women. jonathan, let me finish. when you go into doctors offices and they have the big sign, we do not accept medicaid, there are millions of people who are on medicaid. insurance coverage is one thing. care is a different thing. this is a bill that will bring care not just coverage. it will throw the cbo, the kaiser family foundation, the people who are rhetorically talking about the free market, those people have the facts. who is that is who am i hearing on that side? probably. why? because you can listen to pundits on tv who defend president trump, no matter what he says, whatever lie he tells, or you can listen to the american medical association, the aarp, doctors, nurses, everyone with a stake in the