next year, the national a.c.a. limit would be $7,900, and if we peg it to this benchmark, it would cap the a.c.a. allowable limit at $7,550. we don't know what 2020 is, that will be available spring 2019, but we expect this relationship to hold as it usually has. the third standard is -- allows a medical deductible of $2,000, and employers must cover all the actual expenditures that count towards this. especially with the rising cost of health care, this is something that the work group agreed to maintain, so employers will still cover the costs of any expenditures that count towards this, but we -- but the only change would be to clarify some of that language to reduce confusion for employers and brokers, that they would not have to prefund the full amount right off the bat. and so we do believe that this will continue to remove that financial barrier for people to seek care such as those who would belower wage earners where having a high deductible is actually a barrier to seek care. so to make sure that this is c

i'm mara and the executive director of the national center or transgender equality. people thought we couldn't save the a.c.a. and we saved it over and over and over again. are we ready to save it again? this is not -- this fight is senators? 's and d's it's about the a.c.a., it's about roe v. wade, it's about protecting people's health and their lives. [cheers and applause] transgender people will not go back to being an uninsurable pre-existing condition. [cheers and applause] brett kavanaugh has promised to defend trump's wrongdoings and his wrong-headed policies and we will fight him every step of the way. [cheers and applause] all of us here will stand together. we will fight together. we will vote together. and we will win together! [cheers and applause] thank you all very much. >> thank you so much to all of you for joining us. i'm so glad to see so many out here speaking out and speaking against trump's extremist nominee for the supreme court. rett kavanaugh is simply unfit to serve as supreme court justice and will shift the balance of the court towards trump's ultra-conservative, anti-choice, polit