to keep me alive under circumstances that none of us chose. [ cheers and applause ] thank you for your question. for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. in the universe, including our weird politics. a day after the election, nobody would have told you that republicans would have any trouble repealing obamacare. that s what they could do on their own, they d push on an open door. the affordable care act, they d been rehearsing repealing it for years. it would definitely be their first casualty, no problem. then they d get on to the hard stuff. but people all over the country in every congressional district in the country changed the course of that otherwise inevitable history. they at least slowed it down. the republican plan to repeal the affordable care act has a 17% approval rating. that s worse than chris christie.
so i want to know from you, sir, if you will support the provisions of the affordable care act that protect people like me from being thrown into a lottery system such a high-risk po pool. [ applause ] and will protect my children and my husband from going bankrupt to keep me alive under circumstances that none of us chose. [ cheers and applause ] thank you for your question. for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. in the universe, including our weird politics. a day after the election, nobody would have told you that republicans would have any trouble repealing obamacare. that s what they could do on their own, they d push on an open door. the affordable care act, they d been rehearsing repealing it for years. it would definitely be their first casualty, no problem.
then they d get on to the hard stuff. but people all over the country in every congressional district in the country changed the course of that otherwise inevitable history. they at least slowed it down. the republican plan to repeal the affordable care act has a 17% approval rating. that s worse than chris christie. there is not a single congressional district in this country where people who like the republican idea who outnumber the people who hate the republican idea. not a single congressional district in the entire country. that happens for a reason. that political climate doesn t exist in nature, it is created by people engaged in political action. house republicans are planning to vote at 7:00 eastern to repeal obamacare. now they have pulled their bill despite the personal efforts of
administration broadly but in favor of saving the affordable care act in not just every state in the country but every congressional district in the country, sustained, intense, human activism on this stuff. and yet it may pass the house tomorrow. what are we learning about this process, seeing the about how that translates to washington and how that concern and passion is in political outcomes in d.c. rachel, what we are seeing is that when the american people begin to move, republicans historically had theirown meetings and 30 or 50 of their friends would show up and talk about cutting the deficit and cutting social security and medicare and everybody would applaud. but now you re seeing people coming and saying, as you ve heard on one of your clips, if you do this, my wife is going to die and i m not going to let you do that and you re seeing members of congress, republicans, having to sneak out
you have a state like kentucky. a poor state, a struggling state it has been one of the major beneficiaries along with west virginia of the affordable care act. and let s be clear, the affordable care act has significant problems. i believe in a medicare for all singer player program. but you have west virginia and kentucky. the rate of uninsured people has gone way, way down. far fewer people are now uninsured and you have, say, in kentucky mitch mcconnell advocating and leang the effort to end the affordable care act. the question is, how does he think he could get away with in his own state throwing hundreds of thousands of people off health insurance? and the reason he thinks he can get away with that and likely can get away with it is there is no opposition. democratic party is feeble, unable to fight back. so our job not just on health care but in a broad sense is to bring the american people together, to bring the working