and now they re able to get affordable health care and everything they need covered. that is life changing. and i m one of the 2.1 million americans who signed up for a private health insurance plan and my life is going to be completely changed because i have affordable health care. as far as women who are being affected by this, ruth, is it this is the aspect of the law that s been overlooked and hasn t been a whole lot of focus on this? it s true. one of the things that the affordable care act does is being a woman is no longer a pre-existing condition for which your health insurance company can charge you a lot more. women on average were paying up to 150% of what men were paying because they were women. and the fact that s illegal now. you can t charge women more because they re women. and in addition to that, you have to cover newborn care, maternal health, you know, women are going to be able to get
particularly going into the midterms, this is going to change millions and millions of lives, right? so the number we re talking about here is 9 million people whose lives have changed and democrats need to go on offense and really focus on the difference in the life, the quality of life for those folks. because it will be very significant. well, let s talk about the land where there s radical governors. one of them is in wisconsin. is it safe territory to go on the offensive for obamacare in the middle of the country, ruth? what about it? oh, absolutely. you know, our if you want to talk about a health care mess, look at wisconsin. because wisconsin not only refused to take the medicaid expansion but curtailed its own program called badger care so that now a lot of working poor people who used to have health care in this state are getting kicked off. and what the governor has said to them, as well, you can get health care because of the affordable care act. well, if they have th