would say at a maximum of three things that are in the affordable care act and run on those things? and many of them, if not most of them, should be running on the medicare prescription drug benefit fix because every senior citizen s going to know exactly what that means. there s no question about that. and you re right about the bill, lawrence. the bill you know, we focus on those 15% of people who lacked insurance coverage. but the bill gives so much more security to people who have coverage. seniors on medicare because of this prescription drug benefit you mention. but also all the other things i mentioned and so many more that kids under 26 who can still be on their parents insurance. the rebates to people when their insurance companies spend more than 20% of your premiums on administrative costs and executive bonuses. $8.5 billion in rebates last year because of this law. but you re right. you can t give a laundry list. and i m sure that each one of these legislators will be
but the bill gives so much more security to people who have coverage. seniors on medicare because of this prescription drug benefit you mention. but also all the other things i mentioned and so many more that kids under 26 who can still be on their parents insurance. the rebates to people when their insurance companies spend more than 20% of your premiums on administrative costs and executive bonuses. $8.5 billion in rebates last year because of this law. but you re right. you can t give a laundry list. and i m sure that each one of these legislators will be testing different aspects of the bill and they ll be tailoring their appeal to their districts. but make the republicans explain why they think we ought to take all of that away. i think that s a tough row to hoe.
or drop your coverage if you get sick. or discriminate against children with preexisting conditions. and women now have access to free preventive care like check-ups and mammograms and cancer screenings so you can catch preventable illness on the front end. that provision has already helped more than 70 million americans with private insurance. that s already happening. a lot of people don t know it. but you ve got those protections. because the affordable care act, young adults under the age of 26 are able to stay on their parents health insurance plan. that is already helping more than 6 million young adults. because the affordable care act, seniors on medicare receive free preventive care with no co-pay and get a discounts on prescription drugs that has already saved over 6 million seniors more than $700 each. that has been already happening. seniors may not know that
the amount they earn over $250,000, then nobody else in the country gets tax relief. and this was essential argument in the campaign. mitt romney and paul ryan talked about the fact that this was a choice election and the american people made their choice on this issue and in fact the exit polls, as you know, show that a majority of the american people think we need to take this balanced approach to reducing the deficit because if we don t ask these higher income earners to contribute a little bit more reducing the deficit, everybody else gets whacked that much harder. we have less to invest in education for our kids, seniors on medicare have to pay more and the president has all along said we need to take a balanced approach. congressman, everybody s focused on the bush tax cuts. there s the alternative minute tax that will hit some 26 million households and there s there are costs to some people from obama care
to be on medicare and want to be poor, want to be disabled, want to have assistance? is that really the path that he thinks that americans want to take? and most americans i believe tonight, especially liberals, will be offended by the comment. personal responsibility. personal responsibility. those of you in nursing homes, those in wheelchairs, those who depend on assistance by the government because we re a government of compassion, we have always been a country of compassion. but the republicans are putting up a candidate who wants to wipe away that because we want to privatize everything. the obama campaign has also responded. it s shocking that a candidate for president of the united states would go behind closed doors and declare to a group of wealthy donors that half the american people view themselves as victims sbientitled to hando