independents, 202-748-8002. newsmakers c-span's interviewed the president of the american hospital association, pollick, about republican efforts to repeal and replace how ffordable care act and those efforts affect patients and hospitals. issue really is all around the coverage losses that would result from the the house , both in and senate and that's why we've been opposed to it. far as hospitals go, how are hospitals affected? bottom line with what could happen on medicaid cut? uest: in terms of hospitals, hen the a.c.a. was created, we deployed $155 billion at the time toward helping fund hoped would what we be millions of people. pieces to funding that coverage, the revenue side and then series of reductions in spending. so for us, if we're going to see