Obamacare force healthy buyers to split the entire bill to foot the entire bill. The new health bill sets up a fairer way. The 30 billion pot of money federally funded to pay for people with preexisting conditions. Not just people stuck in the individual market. Under obamacare the healthy and chronically ill paid the same premiums. It is called community pricing. Healthy people could never meet their skyhigh deductibles and instead the premiums would be used to cover huge medical bills for the chronically ill to consume 10 times as much for medical care. You can read that on the website. Your thoughts on todays vote, stay close to cspan for all of the action taking place on it. From north carolina, she is not sure of the republican efforts. Tell us why. Caller i dont know why because i really have not read the bill. I know what i have heard other people say but as far as actually reading it i have not. I tried to get in when the congressman was there because i really think they need to consider the problem is nothing but greed. Greed from the doctors and the hospitals and from the pharmaceutical companies. I had my first child in 1971. We didnt have insurance. Thenurse, our salary back was hardly nothing but we were able to save the money to pay for that. I saved the bill from that for years. It was somewhere around 800 and we were also able to pay for the doctor. Federal government gets involved in anything it eventually becomes corrupt. Medicaid came in, medicare, people found out they wanted a piece of the rock. Doctors used to live in the normal neighborhoods but you dont see that anymore. They live in homes that are milliondollar homes. They are millionaires. Is in every how it buddy elses state but here, your doctor doesnt even come to see you. You are turned over to whoever the physician is at the hospital. So i think greed is a big problem and how we fixed that i dont know. That is a problem people have fix within themselves. I dont know how you fix the problem of greed. But we have some big problems with our health care and it is sad. Pedro if you go to the website for the hill they keep a running count of, when it comes to republican votes on this bill, andis a no vote, a yes vote a not sure yet. About 50 are on the not sure list. 18 on the no list. I want to point you to that so you can keep track of your legislator and where their thinking is. Some reaction from legislators on twitter this morning. Votemorning the morning this afternoon, im concerned about medicaid and preexisting conditions not being resolved. I will vote no. Other legislators are tweeting as well. Lets hear from erika and springfield, virginia. Caller good morning. About the whole insurance extent, the woman before is correct. Says when they privatize Health Insurance i dont know why. Would love if you can bring in senator Elizabeth Warren to explain. What would be a better option on universal health care . But you are talking about pulling out of the market. Lets go out of the market and get medicare for all. So much fors been the republicans because they are focused about the cause and not how many lives of people with preexisting conditions have been saved because of the formal care act. Pedro if medicare for all is something you would like to see, how do you resolve the cost of that and what it would cost to put all those people in . Caller dont give a tax break to the wealthy. They have to pay their fair share of taxes. Weve been paying taxes to them for 30 years with the promise that they are going to create jobs. Work for an Insurance Company and every time i call it an Insurance Company, they are hiring people here in the United States. They are getting all the brakes. They are getting all the tax cuts and they are not compromising with American People. The American People pedro we will leave it there. In arlington, texas, opposing the effort. Hello. Caller hello. This is linda from texas. For trump. Solution why doesnt he pull out a lot of money and put a limit on the texas lottery . Then he can spend his money that way to fixing the wall or whatever. Pedro we are talking about health care. What do you think about what is going to happen today as far as this vote is concerned . Caller im opposing it because i live on medicaid. I like 30 credits getting my full retirement pay and i am disabled. I get medicare and i am 67 years old. If he pulls medicaid funding he is killing me. For the rest shots of my life is what my doctors told me. Box take awebsite look at elements of the plan when it comes to medicaid, saying the expansion will be phased out before the a formal care act and it was difficult for many low income adults without children to get coverage for medicaid. The Affordable Care act expand the program, to cover adults making up to 133 of the federal poverty line. Under the a hca the coverage expansion would stay in place until the end of 2019 but no newly eligible people would be added to medicaid rolls after that. The piece is also adding that it would cut medicaid in other ways and change how the federal government would reimburse andes for medicaid expenses introduces the options of the state turning the money into a block grant, a lump sum rather than a per person payment, which would cut the Program Still further. This is jackie in philadelphia, pennsylvania. She opposes the effort. Good morning. Caller im very concerned because i have Mental Health needs and i am confident that my state will cut that as an essential and i will need to go into the high risk pools. My medication is very expensive and i really dont know how i will manage. That is my comment. Pedro john from baltimore, maryland. Go ahead. Caller thank you for having me. I work in health care and this has changed my opinion about the gop in total which i was supportive of for years. In this case i dont think the public knows that a private color talked about greed. Just a couple of quick facts as i have learned and worked in this area. Hospitals in general only make on average around the u. S. , 4. 2 profit margin. That means four cents on every dollar. If you count the physicians hours to the dollars they make per hour, they are not living in a lifestyle the on what they are. It is insurance carriers that are making anywhere from 15 to 35 . I would challenge my fellow republicans to finally stop being partisan and look around. The moment you realize there are no death panels, we pay when someone goes a matter what. Here anda lot of hype a lot of hyperbole. To look at people this. This is sad what is about to happen. Pedro the editors of the wall street journal talk about it, talking about the upton amendment that was originally added, adding a billion to a 130 billion fund to create risk pools for those who need highcost treatment. Preexisting conditions are an understandable concern but the opposition is less to do with vulnerable patients than preserving obamacare. Chuck schumer claimed that risk pools are like in ministering cough medicine to someone with stage four cancer which exploits cancer victims and shows he knows nothing about risk pools. By targeting funds at the sickest patients, states can make Insurance Market affordable and stable. These subsidies siphon off some of the costs that contribute to the rising premiums of the overall market. It will encourage more people to enroll. Dan, good morning in alexandria, virginia. Go ahead. Caller i oppose this bill. We dont know how Many Americans are going to lose their health coverage. Republicans blasted the democrats back in 2010 when obamacare was passed, but we have no insight into the language of the final bill. It still hasnt been scored. And it has been pushed through. It is pathetic that a party that claims to be the party of life would rob some of the americans of decent preventative care. Pedro lucky is next, in maryland. Go ahead. Caller i am not in support of the bill. I just did a quick calculation this morning when i heard that they were holding 130 billion in reserve to add to the 8 billion to help people with preexisting conditions, and i did a basic calculation of according to how many people would be in the population of about 340. A quarter have preexisting conditions. I myself am diabetic. If you divide the 138 billion 1700 number, it leaves per person for a preexisting condition over five years. It is nothing. It isne per month 1700 per month. I mean, over five years. I dont know how that makes sense. Pedro so you are saying that Insurance Companies should be able to accept a person regardless of preexisting condition or not . Caller obviously. People shouldnt have to pay for someone elses health care . I mean, what are we doing when we are paying for schools, police, fire . You want police and fire to save you if something happens. If you have some kind of fire and you are injured, and you have to go to the hospital and you are left with exorbitant bills, it doesnt even make sense. We are already paying for things for the common good communities. Pedro this is crazy from baltimore, maryland. Opposed line. Baltimore, maryland. Good morning. But i this is christine was not opposed. Pedro apologies for that. Caller i have a question for the senator and that is, that one of the things that would let people know the congress was truly serious about fixing this they removed be if themselves from the Current Health plan that they have and say we will sign on to the health plan that we are suggesting the rest of the country go with and they dont. Instead, they keep themselves safe and protected with the health plan that they have for the remainder of their lives. Pedro the legislator just said that they were required to enroll under the obamacare exchanges. If yout they get look at the Health Benefits that members of congress yet by being congress get by being elected and what that plan does for them compared to what they are saying with this bill we need to do, it is a very different package. It is not fair. And the taxpayers are paying for their Health Benefits and yet they are trying to look at creating a plan for the rest of the country for people who are not in congress that does not apply to them. Pedro 202 7488000 for democrats, 202 7488001 four republicans, and 202 7488002 four independents. Lets go to glenn from salem, ohio in support of the effort. Caller good morning. Bill of the gop because my wife now has stage four lung cancer. Walmart which is invested into the obamacare system but it has totally broke us for what they dont pay in everything. Pedro give an example. The insurance pays so much money to the hospitals and then the hospital turns around and says that is not enough. We get billed the excess of it. I have to pay the excess of it and our money is gone. Pedro how much are we talking as far as when you pay excess . How many dollars . Caller every chemo treatment is 15,000 to 21,000. The Insurance Company says their fair share is 9,000 and we have been billed the excess. Pedro how do you think this thing might change for you . Caller hopefully, if it goes tax reform, more people will go to work and more people will have insurance and we wont be paying for so many people that dont have work. Because we are helping pay for the people who dont work there insurance through obamacare. And now, more people in the Insurance Companies will pay more. The hospitals will make their money more that way and they wont have to bill us. Pedro do you have a sense of how your legislator is going to vote on this package . Caller i dont. Pedro tyson is next, he also supports the effort. From california, good morning. Caller good morning, pedro. Thanks for cspan. Thanks for some of the common sense callers that are trying to drive common sense into those who dont want to hear it. Gas. Like getting it is supply and demand like the gentleman said. If you are unemployed you are not going to have Health Insurance or medicare. Premium. Ng 650 for my. Ero dollar deductible way to go if you can afford it. But now, doctors are only taking cash. They are not taking any credit in california. So the people that are paying for the people that need the medicine are getting hit by the providers because of their private margins or this or that. It is the prescription companies, it is the hospitals. If it is 3000 for an xray that is excessive. Well, a lot of people used to go to the er when they had a problem. Country ran fine. People had a job, they had Health Insurance. But as soon as obamacare came in it changed the game. Now, the republicans are quietly saying lets compromise and move forward. Pedro michael from honolulu, hawaii. Good morning to you on our support line. Caller thank you. I really support what the president is trying to pass and the reason is what we have now is collapsing. A lot of insurers are pulling out and one of the biggest problems ive found is the whole insurance and care for the needy or care for the people who are really sick is there is no emphasis put on preventative care, where people are punished for their lifestyle that caused a lot of their illness. For example, i have been in the hospital there and ive seen people 200 pounds overweight given wheelchairs because they cant walk around that easy and they are suffering from lung problems. But then they have to get wheeled out of the hospital, outside, where they can legally smoke. And they have their cigarettes. Out in that little group you see people with oxygen tanks and Little Things that they carried for support because a are suffering from lung problems, and they are all smoking. It is a waste of money if these people have to realize, when they have a bad lifestyle it is going to affect their health as they get older. And who ends up paying for it . You and i. The costs go way up because a lot of these medicines dont cure the illness. They just keep the patient alive. A lot of the medical practice, they put them in special treatment and special things that keep them alive. Pedro michael, do you have a sense of how hawaii treated the afford will care act . How many insurance providers are under that . Caller hawaii is a very Democratic State and it is very they really try to reach out and help everybody here and it does cost a lot of money. They do make a lot from the tax and the different taxes they have on tourists that come here for a short time. But it is very costly and a lot of people have grown used to it. What bothers me most is the people that end up sick because of their lifestyle. You see people like those folks outside the hospital smoking and they are suffering from lung disease and lung problems and breathing problems. Pedro we will move on to arnold in tennessee who opposes the effort. Go ahead. Caller good morning. How are you doing . I wouldanted to say like to address two callers that just called in. One guy said his wife had stage four lung cancer. I recently went to a meeting at the Friends Meeting house in national tennessee, that is quakers. And there was a group called pastors for peace. They have been going around the United States for 25 years and they collect money and goods and take it to cuba. One of the preachers told me something told us something that i had never heard and that is that cuba has a cure for lung cancer. I googled that and it is true. They have a cure for lung cancer in cuba. So far, it is not being allowed into this country. She also said they have a cure for diabetes. She talked about a man whose diabetes was so bad they were going to have to amputate his feet. Usually once you do that, they keep amputating up your legs until your legs are gone. Cuba has a cure for diabetes and it is not in this nation. The problem with our Health Care System is it is all about money. It is about making money. Our health care we dont really have a Health Care System anymore. It is a wealthcare system. Many doctors and professionals have traded in the hippocratic oath for the wall street journal. It is about making money. Pedro that is arnold in tennessee. Last call on this topic. We will talk about an event that took place on capitol hill with the fbi director appearing before the senate and talking about several issues including information he released close to election day about Hillary Clinton and other topics as well from the Washington Post this morning. E take a look at the hearing the headline says comey defends preelection act. Here is some of it saying that it was the director who gave his most exhaustive defense yesterday or wednesday of saying hevestigation had no regrets despite feeling hisdly nauseous that actions could have impacted the election. To win few new converts to his way of thinking with partisanship now swirling around the cloak the probe of clintons use of a frontal a private email server. Also you can see that on our website at cspan. Org. We are showing you a little bit of the exchange that took place yesterday. Comeysking about jim testimony yesterday, we are interested from hearing from you about your thoughts on jim comey. Do you trust him as the current fbi director . About some of the questions raised yesterday not only concerning the Russian Investigation but also information about Hillary Clinton . Democrats at 202 7488000, republicans at 202 7488001, and independence at 202 7488002. Your trust in jim comey. During the hearing it was senator Dianne Feinstein who asked him about why he announced the opening into the Hillary Clinton email investigation so close to election day. This is terrible. It makes me mildly nauseous to think that we might have had some impact on the election, but honestly, it wouldnt change the decision. Everybody who disagrees with me has to come back to october 28 and stare at this and tell me what you would do. Would you speak or would you conceal . I could be wrong but we honestly made a decision between those two choices that, even in hindsight this has been one of the worlds most painful if there insist, i would not conceal that on october 28