a long history of opposing obamacare, you support trump and the justices that will overrule obamacare and have a long history in opposition to obamacare. it is documented. i don't understand how you can stand here and say otherwise. and strengthen it for working-class folks and if obamacare is repealed it will fall to the states, and you have a governor that fights for healthcare, i have fought for healthcare every step of the way and will do the same as governor. >>moderator: next question from jennifer vaughn. >> let's move to masks. one of the communities that passed a mask mandate, in spite of that the city has seen a sharp rise in covid-19 cases in early october. dan feltes pushed for statewide mandate. if it hasn't worked there, why push for one throughout the state? >> feltes: we need to listen to the medical experts. the medical experts have recommended masks. common sense public mask requirement just makes good sense. we early and stayed in doing and without it. donald trump and chris sununu have not listened to medical experts on masks and donald trump, let's be very clear,

and unless we protect choice, i support obamacare and strengthen. it chris sununu supports repealing. it i am pro-choice. chris sununu is not. we have to move forward and choice -- jobs tomorrow, right here in new hampshire. and look, i can't promise that i'll be a perfect governor, i'm not a perfect person. but what i can promise, is that each and every day i walk into that office, i'm gonna look out for working people and working families, every step of the way. >> governor, one minute for closing statement. >> even in his closing statement, senator feltes is about the negatives and the lies, of course i'm a pro-choice governor, i have been for quite awhile. but when it comes to what is important in this election, it's about what happens in 2021. it's about building a great team, and having real management experience, to get through these fairly -- very challenging. times you can't sue your way through a crisis. you can't lawyer your way. up you need management experience in building routines. and we have got so much done in the state for success,

obamacare without a replacement. and senatoreen mccain turn that down. you cannot rewrite history on the debate stage. gov. sununu: then why is the state of new hampshire -- why did i empower the attorney general to fight that? sen. feltes: you support the process moving forward on judge barrett, who has a long history of opposing obama care, and you support trump in the justices who will overrule obamacare and you have a long history against obamacare, it is documented. i don't understand how you can stand here tonight and say otherwise. we have to protect obamacare and strengthen it for working class folks. if obamacare is repealed, it will fall to the states, and you need to trust that you have a governor who fights for health care. i have fought for health care every step of the weight and will do the same as governor. adam: we are going to go on to our next question from jennifer. good evening, gentlemen. let's move onto masks. nashua is among the communities that passed a mask mandate. in spite of that, the cit

he has not ended obamacare. seven states during the trump presidency have expanded medicaid under provisions of obamacare, even conservative states. and finally on the big win for the usa. we had fox news polling last week that showed by a two to one margin americans wanted to preserve obamacare rather than get rid of it. that's why democrats are highlighting it in the hearings and joe biden is highlighting it and why republicans are on the defensive on this issue, joe. >> john harwood, great reporting thank you so much for that facts and context. john, thank you so much. >>> up next, early research suggesting schools might not be the coronavirus super spreader sites many feared they would be. , yeah i feel free ♪ ♪ to bare my skin ♪ yeah that's all me. ♪ nothing and me go hand in hand ♪ ♪ nothing on my skin ♪ that's my new plan. ♪ nothing is everything. keep your skin clearer with skyrizi. 3 out of 4 people achieved 90% clearer skin at 4 months. of those, nearly 9 out of 10 sustained it through 1 year. and skyr

healthcare, you all remember the disaster of obamacare, don't you?emember the big lies of obamacare? they said if you like your doctor, you can keep him. that was not true. they said if you like your health insurance, you can keep it. that was not true. they said that health insurance premiums is going to go down -- were going to go down. when we came into office, health insurance premiums actually doubled under obamacare. to takebiden has a plan the socialized medicine concept medicareernie sanders' for all bill and put it right in the middle of obamacare. he calls it a public option. you heard the president talking about it last night. you take bernie sanders socialist idea and put it right in the middle of obamacare, you are going to set america on an inevitable path to socialized medicine. in theght joe biden debate said that not one person lost their plan under obamacare but the truth is more than 6 million americans have their individual health plans canceled when obamacare took effect. trump --sident donald under president donald trump, got ri

when you realize the goal is not to preserve obamacare, again, they voted to scrap obamacare.he goal is to undermine the legitimacy of our systems. in this case, the three supreme court so joe biden and kamala harris can pack the court. again, it is about power. oh, that's the key. when confirmation hearings become partisan political exercises they make the supreme court itself seem like a partisan political exercise and that degrades the public trusts in the cord. and the support for the institution. it democrats know that the public to go along with the court packing, they have to delegitimize everything about the court and the confirmation process. if that's what they did today against them. >> it is the legacy of ruth bader ginsburg, let me close by remembering her for a minutes in this unseemly charade. >> this is a charade when they say this is a normal judiciary committee hearing. >> rushing a judge through a shared process. >> they are confident that the victory in the supreme court is now within their grasp if the senate confirms judge barrett to this hypocritical, il

in 2016 he went on the pledge to repeal obamacare. when asked why he supports donald don't trump he said because donald trump will lend the horrible program that is obamacare. teachers at fragile effort to repeal obama to without and placement. fortunately senators voted no in the u.s. senate and now he wants to go forward with judge barrett nomination to the supreme court. she has a long history of opposition to obamacare. >> just for the record governor sununu didn't sign on to the republican governors letter supporting the nomination to judge. but i'll give you 30 seconds. what about those previous statements and predispositions senator feltes raises that certainly semite opposition to the aca. >> two things. let's talk about the aca. i agree with most americans were all frustrated the promises of lower cost with obamacare didn't come to fruition and that's a lot of frustration we express early on. you don't just do without which exactly what i'm talking my parties trend and fighting to keep the aca in place. there are other provis

obamacare. worst of you have to pay a fortune for the privilege of not paying for vet health insurance. it is gone. now it is in court because obamacare is no good. then i made a decision -- run as well as you can't my people, great people. i could have gone the other route and made people unhappy. they ran it. premiums are down, everything is down. no matter how hard you run it nothing is good. we have the individual mandate done. i do not know it is going to work. if we do not win, we will have to run it and have obamacare, but it will be better run. without the individual mandate it is much different. pre-existing conditions will always stay. what i would like to do is a much better health care, much better. it will always protect people with pre-existing. i would like to terminate obamacare, come up with a beautiful health care -- the democrats will do it because there will be tremendous pressure and we may have the house. i think we are going to win the house. come up with a better health c

bad health insurance i terminated it's gone now it's in court because obamacare is no good but then i made a decision run it as well as you can to my people great people run it as well as you can i could have gone the other route and made everybody very unhappy they ran it premiums are down everything's down here's the problem no matter how well you run it it's no good what we'd like to do is terminate it we have the individual mandate i don't know that it's going to work if we don't win it we will have to run it and we'll have obamacare but it will be better run but it no longer is obamacare because without the individual mandate it's much different preexisting conditions will always stay what i would like to do is a much better health care much better. well always protect people with preexisting so i'd like to terminate obamacare come up with a brand new beautiful health care the democrats will do it because they'll be tremendous pressure on them and we might even have the house by that time and i think we're going to win the house ok we'll see but i think we're going to win the hou

south carolina care not obamacare. why do we want that? under the affordable care act, three states get 35% of the money, folks. can you name them? i'll help you. california, new york and massachusetts. there are 22% of the population. senator feinstein is from california. nancy pelosi is from california. chuck schumer, the leader of the democratic senate is from new york. and massachusetts is elizabeth warren. now why do they get 35% of the money when they're only 22% of the population? that's the way they designed the law. the more you spend, the more you get. what does it mean for the people of south carolina? if you had a per patient formula where you got the same amount from the federal government to the state whether you lived in charleston, columbia or san francisco or new york city, if you leveled that out, it would be almost a billion dollars more for us in south carolina. so to my friends over there, we're going to fight back. we want our money. if you're going to have money allocated for obamacare, we're not going to sit back an

under president donald trump, got rid of the individual mandate under obamacare.ause] we have been fighting to lower the cost of health insurance without growing the size of government. we have lowered the cost of perception drugs. we are going to make the best healthcare system in the world even better still and more affordable for every american in america -- and america will never be a socialist country. [applause] we are going to use the power of freedom and free markets and free enterprise to get the american people the health insurance they need. men and women of ohio, we have a choice to make. the choice is between a trump recovery and a biden depression. a recent study came out that shows that under joe biden's policies, america lose 5 million jobs. the income of the average american family would drop by $6,500 a year. so you have to ask your neighbors and friends every day for the next 11 days here in the buckeye state, you just have to ask them who do you really think can bring this economy all the way back? a career politician who has been spending 47 y

obamacare. this hearing has been more about obamacare than it has you. obamacare is on the ballot. if you want socialized, single-payer health care, that is on the ballot. why didn't any of us object to obamacare? sed on aritten and pas partisan line i think on christmas eve. most big changes in society have that.uy-in than we were talking about 1/5 of the american economy and as i said yesterday from a south carolina point of view, this has not worked out well. we started with five exchanges, we are down to one, you have one choice. four rural hospitals have closed. premiums have gone up, not down. and when you look at the formula used by obamacare, i can understand why senator harris likes it the way it is. i can understand why chuck schumer likes it the way it is. states get 35% of all obamacare dollars. new york, california, massachusetts. they are 22% of the population. in south carolina, if you had a per patient formula in a matter where you live, you got the same contribution from the federal government. south carolina would receive almost an additional $1 billion. i don't b

obamacare is a disaster. we want to terminate it.want to get great health care. >> just to be clear that four-week plan he said was on may 20, 2019, 74 weeks ago, just to do the math. "outfront" now, hogan giddily, for the trump campaign. he's described it over the past four years as excellent, tremendous, fantastic, beautiful, and great. where is it? >> the very fact that we're having a conversation at all about health care in this election in 2020 proves that obamacare has been a complete and total failure. you remember the lies we were told by joe biden, that if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. the you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan. all of that was up true. and the american people saw skyrocketing premiums by hundreds of percentage points in various states. tens of millions lost their health care. the president came into office and had to act and had to act quickly. he got rid of the individual mandate right off the top, the most popular part of obamacare that hurt middle income amer

regarding the president's -- really his obsession to repeal obamacare. he said, we will repeal and replace disastrous obamacare, when accepting the republican nomination at the republican convention in 2016. did you see that speech? >> the republican convention? >> in 2016. i'm not asking if you were there. i'm asking if you saw it on tv. >> no, i don't believe i watched any of the convention on tv. or if i did, i don't remember any of it. >> he has said things like, it begins he wants to immediately repeal and replace the disaster known as obamacare. he has said he wants to get rid of it. he has said in states of the union, i am calling on congress to repeal it. he's said can you believe that mitch mcconnell couldn't get it done. so there have literally been hundreds of statements by him, by my colleagues, and i just find it hard to understand that you were not aware of the president's statements. >> umm, i am aware that the president opposes the affordable care act. i'm aware that he has criticized the affordable care act. i took senator harris' questi

obamacare is a disaster. the president for months has been promising a detailed healthcare plan and has not produced it. so they are on the defensive on the issue. that is one reason they seized on it. this plays to the base. the judicial appointments generally and putting a third justice on the supreme court may remind people who voted for them last time, maybe they have the doubts that this is a reason they want the president re-elected. >> dana: it's remarkable to start the third supreme court confirmation hearing in four years. a lot of stuff has happened in four years. >> and in the final weeks of the campaign. >> dana: indeed. thank you so much. well, joe biden is campaigning in battleground state of ohio today. that is where the former vice president and his campaign staff are still not saying whether he would pack the court, the supreme court if elected. peter doocy is live in dayton. hey, peter. >> dana, biden is trying to be as transparent as possible about the plan to build back the economy better.

you're saying, okay, trump does support that part of obamacare. >> no.s getting rid of obamacare and making sure those with pre-existing conditions, the most vulnerable in our country are protected. >> but that's one of the most, one of the most bomb hard parts of obamacare. i can play for you, this is donald trump discussing pre-existing conditions. that protection already. in law. take a look. >> obamacare has to be replaced and we will do it and do it very quickly. >> we have come up with a solution that's really, really, i think, very good. i have it already. it is a. better plan for you and a much better plan. the historic action i'm taking today includes the first ever executive order to affirm, the official policy of the united states government to protect patients with pre-existing conditions. >> i think the point here that i want you to address, and i hope you'll do it on the evidence here. voters care about their health care. i think we can all accept that premise. you have the president claiming he will release the secret plan in '16. four yea

as a whole has been against obamacare you meant -- obamacare from the beginning.message came through. i want to make a couple of observations. 220 million americans have not died. it's 220,000. secondly, it's always hard to prove a negative. the president made a very good point. had his actions not taken quickly against the advice of dr. fauci and others, shutting entry from china, the death toll would have been much higher. this is a global pandemic. the mortality rate in this country, which nobody is -- which nobody wants to talk about, is going down. the president has handled the pandemic. when canada -- when date -- when a candidate talks about darkness , that usually doesn't play well. president trump is talking about optimism. i started in washington in the 1970's and he was always about optimism. the president is optimistic and that is the president's role. the president has handled the coronavirus quickly. we will see how kansas votes and texas votes. i think it's going to cost him in pennsylvania. i think it's going to cost him in key states, ohio include

i want to give you my side of the story about obamacare. now, this is lindsey graham, the senator from south carolina, talking. this is not a question directed at you. from my point of view obamacare has been a disaster for the state of south carolina. all of you over there want to impose obamacare on south carolina, we don't want it. we want something better. we want something different. you know, what we want in south carolina? south carolina care, not obamacare. now, why do we want that? under the affordable care act three states get 35% of the money, folks. can you name them? i will help you. california, new york and massachusetts. they are 22% of the population. senator feinstein is from california, nancy pelosi is from california, chuck schumer, the leader of the democratic senate is from new york and massachusetts is elizabeth warren. now, why did they get 35% of the money when they are only 22% of the population? that's the way they designed the law, the more you spend, the more you get. what does it mean for the people of south car

that's a plank for states to participate in obamacare. robert, my job is not to tell people how to vote but my job is to report the facts that may relate to their voting. so if you're wondering which candidate supports the current health care laws that provide the funding and the support at the state level for health care, for the insurance market, for the prekexisting condition protection, donald trump claims he's for. you read it on your screen right now. brand-new from president trump, robert, i hope they end obamacare and his doj is the one that brought it to the supreme court is pushing that plank, robert, if mitch mcconnell were in the interviewing room with "60 minutes" he would hope he had a debate moderator mute button because he would want to admit donald trump -- mute donald trump giving the game away. >> i think mitch mcconnell is co complicit in this. we've been waiting for the replace of repeal and place every two weeks for a decade. okay? it's become the new infrastructure week. all right? we're waiting. we're still waiting

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thanks as we just heard, judge barrett pressed repeatedly on obamacare. democrats suggesting she would cast a deciding vote to kill the law. but what are the actual chances of that let's bring in nbc's pete williams. pete, any hints so far? >> reporter: lester, judge barrett has criticized the supreme court's ruling that upheld obamacare's individual mandate so she might agree with the red states asking the court to declare the mandate unconstitutional but the key issue in the case the court hears in november is whether the rest of the health care law can remain in effect some of the court's conservatives say judges should be reluctant to strike a law if only part of it is invalid even if she believes the entire health care law must fall, it's not at all clear there are four other justices who would agree with her so obamacare may be at greater risk with her on the court but it's by no means certain that her confirmation would doom it. lester >> all right, pete williams, thank you. >>> the supreme court just handed the trump administration a big victory,

they can say obamacare is bad, they can say they want to get rid of obamacare, that's all good, whatever, but they don't know -- they have no plan and they haven't had a plan for ten years and they get tripped up on this all the time and it's devastating to watch them not get out of their own way on health care. >> hold that thought, scott, we want to take a quick look at vice president mike pence, he is in indiana right now and he has just voted along with karen pence there at his side. he just dropped his ballot into the ballot box. gave a thumbs up, posed for a picture. he has just voted. i will take this moment just to deviate for a second, susan, because you moderated the vice presidential debate, just to get your thoughts on kristen welker and what she did last night. >> i thought kristen did a fantastic job. i think she was in control from the start. she was very well-prepared. i thought could not have done a better job of moderating. i also thought the mute button worked pretty well. i had been a little bit of a skeptic about how that would work, but i think it imposed a kind of

all of you over there that want to impose obamacare on south carolina, we don't want it.e want something better. >> health care has been front and center in this hearing. if amy coney barrett is on that court, she'll rule on whether it survives and whether the whole law is struck down, along with a lot of protections for people with pre-existing conditions, so democrats want to press her on it. president trump has vowed to get rid of that law and they want to know if she will do his bidding. >> reporter: the democrats have used the hearings to double down on ac assesses barrett's nomination would end the aca, leaving millions of americans without health care, as covid-19 spreads throughout the nation. >> health care is a huge cost for families. polls show as obamacare, as the affordable care act was being threatened with going away, its popularity has gone up. they don't want to change it without a plan for what's coming next. and the president and republicans don't have one. >> reporter: but barrett repeatedly refused to give any indication of her position. >> have you c

>> so we got rid of the individual mandate on obamacare which was the worst part of obamacare and now you can actually say it's not obamacare because that's how big it was where you had to pay a fortune for not having bad health insurance. we got rid of that. by doing that, we will always have -- by the way, we're always protecting people with pre-existing conditions, and i can't say that more strongly. but we've been able to bring health care costs way down. now i took over obamacare. got rid of the individual mandate. made it good. managed it. they had the $5 billion website disaster and all of the problems they had. the problem with obamacare, it's not good. we'd like to terminate it and we want a much less expensive health care that's a much better health care and that's where we're aiming. and if we can do that, and we have a very good chance of doing it, but we've also brought down the price of obamacare. problem with obamacare, it basically is never going to be great and i want to give great health care. >> mr. president, i have a follow up with the pre-existing condition. it i

now it is in court, because obamacare is no good.en i made a decision, run it as well as you can, to my people, great people, run it as well as you can. i could have gone the other route, made everybody very unhappy. they ran it, premiums are down. everything is down. here's the problem, no matter how well you run it, it is no good. we would like to do this, to terminate it. we have the individual mandate, done. i don't know that it is going to work. if we don't win, we will have to run it, and we will have obamacare, but it will be better-run. he no longer is obamacare, because without the individual mandate, it is much different. pre-existing conditions will always stay. what i would like to do is a much better healthcare, much better, we will always protect people with pre-existing. so, i would like to terminate obamacare, come up with a brand- new beautiful healthcare. the democrats will not do it, because it will be of tremendous pressure on them. we might even have the house by that time. i think we will win the house, right? y

it's in the republican party platform to reverse the obamacare case. trump has said he is using his nominations to terminate the affordable i think it is pretty fair -- affordable care act. i think it is fair of us to hold them to what they said this nomination is about. the american people are watching. they know this is targeting november and they know it is wrong. let me turn over to amy klobuchar. thanks so much sheldon. i mentioned these two when i was in the hearing room but these are two sisters from cambridge, minnesota. they both play on the softball team and one is a picture and one is the catcher, one was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes and one was not. my point here is doesn't matter which one was diagnosed, don't they both deserve good health care? that is what is at stake. despite my colleagues comments from the other side of the aisle about how somehow this -- these decisions are in some ivory tower and they will not affect people's lives, they are going to affect people's lives. they will affect the lives of every single person in this

. >> reporter: democrats in opening statements like diane feinstein cast her as a threat to obamacare>> they are asking the supreme court to strike down the affordable care act, deliberately defining the will of the people in their attempt to roll back the rights and protections provided the affordable care act. >> in the midst of a pandemic the republicans want to strike down the law 23 million americans rely on. todd: republicans came to her defense blasting democrats for opposing her. >> they does may me and disappoint me and reflect the fact that we all out for the politicization of the one branch of the federal government that is not political. >> the fact is nomination is occurring at all is a legitimate. doesn't matter who judge barrett is. doesn't matter what she has done. doesn't matter her record. >> they are attacking you as a mom and a woman of faith because they cannot attack your qualifications. >> now comes the questioning and likely a lot of fireworks, 12 republicans and 10 democrats on the committee, each senator gets 30 minutes so we are in for 11 hours in the next t

wade, obamacare or any of these cases. this assault is nothing but political theater. >> martha: there was a suggestion, harold ford jr., that amy coney barrett was chosen because of a statement that she made when she was talking about aca and the roberts decision. there were other judges who agree, basically, with her minority position on his approach to that decision. but basically, she wanted to say you wrote this and then five months later, president trump picked use of this must be why. is that fair? >> first of all, thanks for having me on. i think all of this is fair. we shouldn't forget, and mark raised a great point, there is no doubt she is very likely to be confirmed. she's an impressive, smart, capable candidate but i would add, so was merrick garland. it's almost as if, when you watch this hearing, that some of my republican friends in the senate believe that maybe trump will be reelected and they've got to rush this thing through. democrats will continue to question her very directly. she is answering questio

from my point of view, obamacare has been a disaster for the state of south carolina. all of you over there who want to impose obamacare on south carolina, we don't want it. we want something better. we want something different. you know what we want in south carolina, south carolina care, not obamacare, now why do we want that? under the affordable care act, three states get 35% of the money, folks, can you name them? i'll help you, california, new york and massachusetts. they're 22% of the population. senator feinstein is from california, nancy pelosi is from california. chuck schumer, the leader of the democratic senate is from new york. and massachusetts is elizabeth warren. why do they get 35% of the money when they're only 22% of the population. that's the way they designed the law, the more you spend, the more you get. what does it mean for the people ofof south carolina? if you had a per-patient formula where you got the same amount from the federal government to the state, whether you lived in charleston, columbia or san francisco or new york city, if you leve

right now obamacare only covers 4% of the people in this country.'ve had family members i love lose their health care that have seen their premiums quadruple and now have to pay out of the pocket for health care and yeah, i'm upset the obamacare was passled i'm not comfortable lying to get the job done like you are. i'll always protect people with pre-existing conditions. there is a bill in the senate right now thom tillis is working on now and i will co-sponsor. >> congressman. >> you don't get it, it's not about you being upset. the law protects them now. all you hear is every everyone is a liar, and this is a pam. the pandemic. the last thing we should do is throw out the law that covers 33 million americans. there are 100,000 people in our congressional district who have health insurance because of the aca and there are 20,000 more unsured, who should have it. that will get worse under your approach. you can say what you want, the law protects these people now. you can't get rid of this law. >> i'm not-- listen, aim he going to protect people wi

re, the affordable kamala harris focused on obamacare, the affordable care act.cans are scrambling to confirm this nominee as fast as possible because they need one more trump judge on the bench before november ten to win and strike down the entire affordable care act. this is not hyperbole. this is not a hypothetical. this is happening. and here is what you have to know. people are scared. people are scared of what will happen if the affordable care act is destroyed in the middle of a pandemic. there are more than 100 million americans with pre—existing conditions like asthma and diabetes, heart disease, who know that they could be denied coverage and charged more by insurance companies if donald trump is successful in getting rid of the affordable care act. let's speak live to president and ceo of the national women's law centre. very good to you, thank you very much for your time. with her kamala harris making a lot of points, in truth we have heard very little in the way of meaningful aunt from thejudge. i think in the way of meaningful aunt from the judge. i

chris: -- obamacare.o end obamacare. >> because we want to -- chris: if i may ask my question, sir. over the last four years, you have promised to repeal and replace obamacare, but you have never in these four years come up with a plan, a comprehensive -- >> yes, i have. chris: -- to replace obamacare. >> of course i have. chris: well, i'm going to -- >> excuse me, i got rid of the -- chris: that is not a comprehensive -- >> that is absolutely a -- chris: i did not -- hey, let me ask my question -- >> well, i'll ask joe. did you think the mandate was the most unpopular aspect of obamacare? i got rid of it -- chris: mr. president, i'm the moderator of this debate, and i would like to let you ask my question, and then you can answer. >> go ahead. chris: you, in the course of these four years have never come up with a comprehensive plan to replace obamacare and, just as last thursday, you signed a largely symbolic executive order to protect people with pre-existing conditions five days before this debate. so

>> when we see what happens with obamacare. >> reporter: if obamacare isn't validated, people with pre-existing conditions would be eliminated. last month president trump signed an executive order promising to keep pre-existing conditions protected. >> this is signed and done, so we can put that to rest. >> reporter: but his order doesn't have any practical force. another trump promise for many years, to address medical bills. he hasn't but he says he will. he also said he would cut drug prices by allowing imports or putting them in the same line as other countries. so far nothing. he's also issued regulations requiring hospitals to disclose the prices they negotiate with insurance companies, which is set to go into effect in january. >> i will build on the affordable care act. >> reporter: for middle income families, biden has said he will offer more subsi sisidies to pue insurance. >> i'm going to offer obamacare with a public option. bidencare. >> reporter: people would be able to get insurance at no cost. >> you can choose to keep your private insurance or you can choose a medicare option i

here is the secret about obamacare.hree states, new york, california, massachusetts, at 35% of the money, 22% of the population. nancy pelosi, chuck schumer, elizabeth warren wrote this bill. if we got a fair allocation met a regular if, it would be a $1 billion increase. that is my proposal. pre-existing conditions have to be covered but we can do it differently. innovation is the key to health care. the money is south carolina, in control of people you can vote for, not a democrat he never meet. mr. harrison: this is not fairytale our. you need to be honest. getdo south carolina not its fair share of the affordable care act? it is because of folks like you who said, we will not allow medicaid expansion. that is why we are not getting the money. we would cover 250,000 people in this stage right now if we had the medicaid expansion. ,8 other states have said medicaid expansion is a good thing, we should do it. you know the reason our hospitals have closing under your watch? medicaid has not been extended. thetalk to the

speak of the debate over building on obamacare or scrapping it. >> my family pays almost double whato play for in premiums. we are restricted. >> president trump says he wants to terminate obamacare while protecting some of the laws more popular provisions. former vice president joe biden promises to defend the affordable care act and spend $75 billion a year reducing its costs and expanding coverage. >> what i'm going to do is pass obamacare with a public option. a stick of the would be a government run insurance plan. biden says it would compete with private plans to reduce costs. republicans say it's a step towards socialized medicine. currently obamacare has insurance regulations like keeping millions younger than 26 on the parents plan. requiring companies to cover those with pre-existing conditions. >> we will always protect people with pre-existing. i would like to terminate obamacare, come up with a brand-new beautiful health care. >> the president has offered no details on how he would do it. about 11 millions get insurance through an obamacare market and the government prov

>> i talked to little bit about obamacare. obamacare in south carolina's been a disaster. your promise if you like your doctor you can keep it. we had five choices under obamacare were down to one. for a while i was on obamacare and my premiums went up three 100% my courage is almost nonexistent. obamacare, three states get 35% of obamacare dollars. california and a chess while nutritious. there is 22% of the population. odor like to do? i would like to make sure if you are in spartanburg get the same amount of money for the federal government as if you lived in san francisco. that would be almost a billion dollar increase for us. level out the funding, send the money to the state directly, bypassed the washington bureaucrat you will never meet. her local officials in charge of healthcare, allow our doctors and healthcare subject to you the patient and your own backyard parade the reason liberals hate my idea is because i'm trying to get money and power out of washington back here their goal is single payer healthcare will reduce quality, increased costs. michael's obamaca

now obamacare has been something that i don't know about rick in the past before although he was not a trump supporter but certainly the republican party as a whole has been against obamacare almost unanimously from the beginning of 2010 we want to replace obamacare and in a sense perfect it so i think that message came through i just want to make a couple of observations here but quickly 220000000 americans have not died it's 220000 in the 1st instance secondly is the president's point it's always hard to put look prove a negative the planes landing and so forth the president made a very good point had his actions which were criticized by the former vice president not been not taken prudently and quickly against the advice of dr filed gene others for example shutting entry from china the death toll would have been much higher those are dr 5 g.'s words so obviously it's a global pandemic lastly the mortality rate in this country which nobody wants to talk about is going down and it's far lower than most european countries so the president has handled the pandemic 2 quick things when

you over member the disaster of obamacare, right?hen joe biden was vice president, they passed obamacare, they said if you like your doctor, you can keep him. it was not true. they said if you like your health insurance, you can keep it. it was not true. they said the cost of health insurance would go down. cost oftook office, the health insurance had doubled. and during the debate last week, joe biden actually said that not one single person with private health insurance had lost their plan under obamacare. americansis 6 million had their individual health care canceled when obamacare took effect. now joe biden has a plan to fromt a public option bernie sanders' medicare for all that would threaten the private health insurance of 80 million americans. literally, he wants to take socialized medicine straight out of the core of burning care and put it into obamacare. it would set us on an inevitable path to socialized medicine in america. under president donald trump, we got rid of the individual mandate. [applause] we have been lower

case it isn't about obamacare.ut severability which means can you cut one piece of legislation and maintain the law or does the whole thing have to be reformed. it is not about obamacare per se. it is a sub issue. jillian: let's listen to what kamala harris had to say yesterday. >> every american must understand with this nomination equal justice under law is at stake. our voting rights are at stake. workers rights are at stake. the right to safe and legal abortion is at stake. shannon: is that accurate and fair? >> it is not accurate because senator harris or any other senator, republican or democrat has any idea at all how judge barrett might want a particular case. judge barrett is the kind of person that is very open-minded and she will not rule or decide on any particular case until she has heard all the relevant facts and analyze the relevant law and argument so it is inappropriate and wrong for any senator to assume how judge barrett will decide or vote on any particular case just based on her personality or

reverse the obamacare cases. senator after senator, including many in this committee, filed briefs saying that the affordable care act should be thrown out by courts. why is it surprising for us to be concerned that you want this nominee to do what you want nominees to do. one quick stop on nfib. national federation of businesses, until it filed the nfib case had its biggest donation ever of $21,000 in the year that it went to work on the affordable care act, ten wealthy donors gave $10 million. somebody deserves a thank you. so let's go on to roe v. wade. same thing. president trump said it will happen anyway because he's putting pro-life judges on the court. the republican party platform says it will reverse roe. why would we not comment on that and take you at your word? senators here, including senator holley have said i will vote only for nominees who acknowledge that roe v. wade is wrongly decided and their pledge to vote for this nominee. do the math. that's a really simple equation to run the republican b

partyin the republican platform to reverse the obamacare cases. thep has said he is using nomination to overturn the affordable care act, so i think it is fair for us to hold them to account for what they have said this nomination is about. the american people are watching. they know this unseemly rush is inappropriate. they know it is targeting november 10 and they know it is wrong. we turn it over now to amy klobuchar. sen. klobuchar: thanks so much, sheldon. thanks, everyone. i mentioned these two in the hearing room, but these are our sisters from minnesota, mariah and evelyn. they both play on the softball team. one is a picture, one is a catcher. one was diagnosed early on with juvenile diabetes and one was not. my point here is it does not matter which one was diagnosed. they both deserve good health care. that is what really is at stake. despite my colleagues' comments from the other side of the aisle about how somehow this judge's decision are in some ivory tower and will not affect people's lives, they will. they will affect the lives of