to see. we already have on the books here. the democrats are ignoring another law we have on the books which is you can get emergency medicaid if you re illegal. you can get emergency medicaid if you are pregnant. obamacare which came in and extended the health insurance system doesn t add the possibility for illegal immigrants to go to the state exchanges and buy health insurance. why are they reversing themselves? obamacare caused a big problem for physicians. we have a shortage. we aren t able to take care of everyone. sandra: if not the top issue heading into 2020, dr. siegel. what is your message from the medical community as it has become such a political debate? my message is consider us. we re swamped. we can t take care of you the way we want to now. don t give us more patients. don t give us more documentation. don t give us more government insurance that pays us little. 30% of doctors aren t taking medicaid as it is. don t add more people to the
state exchanges. and people just simply don t know what might be available or that they have to sign up. one of the things that should be happening immediately and certainly in california and i hope other states are doing it, the budget and appropriation cuts of the federal level, we need to make the affordable care act work in one of the principal things is the president to laud needs to be strengthened that all insurance companies must provide insurance regardless of pre-existing conditions. secondly we have to get at the drug issue, there are examples across the board of extraordinary price increases and drugs that are not justified by either advertising or research but simply by greed. those are all things that can and must be done immediately. can we do it? why not, these are issues that democrats ran on and so did republicans. why don t we just sure this up?
part repealed obamacare. they did that on the individual mandate. they can physician this with murry alexander. i think he needs to call it a win and move forward with the rest of the agenda. do you want to respond to this? well, i mean there are many other parts and aspects to obamacare. like i quoted earlier only 3% of the over all costs. but if we are going to talk about the millions of americans who get their health care not only on state exchanges like connecticut but national and federal exchanges, then that is the fundamental heartbeat of obamacare. obamacare is not the individual mandate. it s making sure that insurance companies actually take care of the needs of the individual who are paying these premiums. and these premiums we are talking about, if the president wants to do something, he can help make sure we stabilize these markets, bipartisan effort so we don t have to worry about the uncertainty there of. according to the facts checks it does not repeal obamacare.
period. he isn t advertising for it we may see this week in the tax bill they may be getting rid of the individual mandate. ainsley: there are several insurance companies, more of them. not several seven of them pulling out next year. we have a list. if this is one of your insurance companies we re going to ask you advice. humana, anthem, aetna, molina, blue cross blue shield, optima and medica. who is left? you do have united healthcare group a giant. they have markedly increased their premiums deductibles and co-pays. 3 to 5 million americans who lost their employment sponsored plans with the implementation of the affordable care act. they are caught in the crossfire of political warfare right now. these people who do depend on the exchange, they have to search around, shop around in their state exchanges. the cheapest plan isn t necessarily the best plan. you want to find the most value for the dollar.
kooev keep you ahead of the curve in the coming weeks. congress returns to session next week and there may be a bipartisan effort to return to health care, believe it or not. patty murray of washington. they re working on a narrow health care fix to try to shore up the individual insurance markets. this, of course, after a bunch of big insurers have left key state exchanges, something that could look alone the lines of insuring subsidies that go to insurance companies. continue, provide more flexibility to states. that s something that republicans want. of course, we know how difficult health care is. if there is a possibility of getting something done, they re trying to do something in september. something to ensure there s some certainty before the enrollment period begins for these insurance companies and presumbpresum