0 >> arrogance. let's play a word game. a heck of a word. republicans going to be talking about these scandals for month to come maybe even years because they really want to tarnish obama. let me tell you what the real scandal that's going on in washington right now. republicans in congress voted to reveal obama care for the 38th time. they did that on thursday as advertised and the vote didn't go down without a big show. >> we see this coming just like the titanic, we see the iceberg only it's not just in a midst. shortly in front of our eyes. we have time to turn back. so why not reveal that bill today. i wanted to bring that tower of red tape here to the floor. it is seven feet tall and growing. it was too big to be allowed on the house floor. >> truly the devil is in the it's estimated since republicans took control of the house in 2011 they have spent basically 15% of their time attempting to repeal significant legislation that affects millions of americans. if you listen to john boehner he's trying to convince the american people that he really cares about jobs. >> these are the thousands and thousands of pages of obama care regulations. and if we want jobs, reneed to get rid of this because this is getting in the way of employers hiring workers around the country. >> job is our primary focus. >> no it's not. so far this year there has not been one vote in the house on a jobs bill. the republican master plan for job creation basically is taking away health care from 30 million americaning. meanwhile there's another major health care story that grabbed the headlines this week. after undergoing genetic testing jolie learned he has an 08% chance of developing breast cancer and with those odds the star actress opted to have a double mastectomy in february and at this time it's still unclear whether angelina jolie will have her ovaries removed. she's a brave woman but she is also very lucky. she had the means to undergo testing and take care of the problem before it came just too serious and life threatening. but you know not every american has that kind of luck. under obama care they would. many americans are in desperate need of health insurance. it's literally a matter of life and death. let me say that again. it is literally a matter of life and death. now last week on our first ed show in this time slot i asked for a volunteer with cancer and no health insurance to come forward and share your experience with the audience. let's hear the other side of the story. the next story is a perfect exam. of why republicans should leave obama care alone. dan see cois a 26-year-old freelance sports writer. this young man has played by the rules his entire life. he worked shard, studied hard, went to graduate school and is pursuing a career as a 0 freelance sports journalist. soonz he turned 26 years old he lost his health care. you can't go around the corner and buy any kind of private health insurance plan you want. then after losing his health care at the age of 26, just a few months after that through no fault of his own he was diagnosed with nonhod kins limb to ma. where is dan? he's facing the monumental task of figuring out how he's going to pay for his cancer treatment so he can have a chance at long life. dan wanted to be here tonight but he is in a medical center undergoing chemo therapy. we offered to do a tape and interview in his hospital room but the drrss doctors were concerned for his health so that didn't happen. dan felt it was so important to tell his story he called my radio show by design on friday. >> what is your situation. >> i'm actually currently in the hospital right now. i'm undergoing chemo therapy treatments. i'm about halfway through with my current regime and i don't have any health insurance. >> when you say you don't have any health insurance is this the way it's been, you know, your whole life or recently or what? >> no. i grew up middle class. i had health insurance up until my 26th birthday which was last august. i was working for a travel company and i wanted to pursue my writing career full time and i, you know, took a little bit of a risk by, you know, not having health insurance. but i didn't have any options really as a writer. right now i'm currently applying for medicaid and relying on charities here and the good-natured spirit of other people to elhelp me out. i don't have many options. >> he's not alone. dan's story is like millions of other americans. 30 million people are waiting for obama care. >> would obama care help you? >> yes, absolutely. i think i'm pretty much the model case for why obama care needs to pass, you know, what it can do to help people in my situation through, you know pursuing what they want to do with their life. and, you know, they need the care that they can't afford to pay out of pocket, pet scans that shows how much cancer you have in your body, $14,000. who has the money to pay for that. >> i went on to ask dan about republicans repeeling obama care for the 38th time. how dufl when you see congress trying to repeal obama care? >> it's very difficult to try to comprehend. i understand lawmakers have their own agendas, but, you know, you don't know -- if you don't know someone who is in this type of situation that i'm in and there's millions of other people like me, i mean it's just, i can't comprehend it. can't understand why one would work you know against this type of policy which is really going to make the lives of so many people so much easier. >> yeah. why? why would republicans do this? what kind of a person would vote to deny, vote to take away an opportunity of another american to save his or her life? you see, it's all about the preexisting condition because dan is not going to be able to get health care insurance if they were to repeal obama care. do the republicans care? republicans don't care if obama care saves lives. for them it's all about power. >> what would you like the lawmakers to know? >> you know, i had health care my entire life. i was fortunate. but, i mean, i went to graduate school to be a journalist, that's what i want to pursue and health insurance isn't always available for freelance writers. i want a chance to be healthy and not in millions of dollars of debt. i think for the long term health of the country this needs to go if. like you asked me before, i don't know when the charity is going to run out. i can't rely on that. i need a solution for the long term. who knows what happens a year later, two years later further down the road. the bottom line is i need health insurance. >> he needs health insurance and for 38 times in the congress, in the house with tp republicans have said no we don't want you to have it. we think there's too many thousands of pages and too much red tape out there for you to have a chance, dan, to save your life. i can't thank this gentleman enough for coming forward and talking to us. we asked for an example of someone who wanted to be brave enough to share their story. all we hear about is how bad obama care is. they want a negative story out there. every time they bring up something that's negative about obama care, i want all of you viewer to know that i will do something on this program that talks about what the real obama care is going to do for americans. it's going to save lives. do we care about that? since when did we quit caring about our fellow american? well when the republicans got in power. what's the difference between leaving a warrior out on the battlefield or someone in a hospital room not knowing what the future is because they can't pay for the health care bill that they're going to be getting? what are the medical institutions supposed to do? the politics of this is very, very cruel and it's wrong. and there is a moral component to this. you know what's interesting? all week long we've been hearing about how the tea party has ju been screwed by the irs and we just cant believe that the tea party has been targeted. i wish the republicans would care about sick americans as much as they do about the damn tea party and what they're doing with their money where they don't identify where the donors are coming from. you see, we're better than this as a country and barack obama, the president of the united states is making a very big mistake by not talking about this and telling dan's story himself day in and day out. democrats you cannot run from this. this is good for america. it is a great step forward to fete us to universal health care some day and have the same kind of plan those in congress who are voting against it, other americans can have as well. the politics are ugly and cruel but it's the moral component -- i think when you look at michele bachmann how she has done this, it's so unlike minnesota, it's so unlike the middle of the country, it's so unlike turning to your next door neighbor and saying i'm going to vote to deny you to opportunity to have health insurance. why are the progressives in this country the liberals afraid to talk about this every single day as if it's some kind of a cancer legislation out there that's going to troy the demeanor ik party. this is who we are. this is the fabric of america. we tear care about one another. we had a president come forward who staked his whole presidency on this, we got something done. what do the republicans want to do? they want to get rid of it. have they offered another plan? no, they haven't. when there's an illness in your family it changes how you view things. dan's family was really never the same after their father died at the age of 45 because of cancer. and for more on dan's story i want to bring in his brother kyle who is here tonight in studio in new york. god bless you. >> thank you. >> how hord r hard has this been to see your brother go through this. >> it's been tough. when we first found out, just complete shock as you just said. we lost my father at the young age. was only 14 years old. dan is 26. you don't expect 26-year-old's to get diagnosed with cancer. his back was hurting him for a while, he didn't have insurance, he didn't want to pay to see what was going on with his back. it finally got to the point where my mom said dan, i don't care how much it cost we're going to take you to the doctor doctor. >> so he had all of the pains, he didn't have insurance, he didn't go to doctor, he finally goes and he find out he has limb foe ma. >> correct. >> just 26-year-old healthy guy, didn't have insurance, just the bad luck of the draw? >> exactly. >> you have set up a fund to try to help pay for this. tell us about this because the politics of this are very cruel. this is the republican plan, get charity. tell us about it. >> i got the idea from a friend who was running a half marathon to raise money for one of his friends who had cancer. i saw his overwhelming response. i was at the hospital a few days after dan got diagnosed and i created a website on give gord.com. people kept sending it out to people they knew and as of today we've raised almost $40,000 which is shocking has that so many people care. >> that's a drop in the bucket. >> it sound like a lot of money but as dan said on the radio show, $14,000 is one pet scan. i think we figured out out. one night in the hospital costs $8,000. >> so they're not going to repeal obama care so on january 1st your brother is not going to be denied the opportunity to get insurance which is a total game changer in his care isn't it. >> definitely. right now he still has no insurance. my mom is doing her best to get him covered under medicaid but that takes forever. we have no idea how much this is going to cost in the long run. >> thanks for doing what you're doing, keep up the fight. god bless you. we will have dan on this program. he is going through some pretty brutal chemo therapy right now. it's hard for me to tell the story folks but let me ask you a question. whose side are you on? 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