this is the heart and soul. >> thank you, next speaker, thank you, miss upton. >> i am beverly naylor, i am a musician, as is my husband, and we mentor youth in music in the neighborhood. we also open our home up every morning to a bris, we've been doing that for 12 years, many of them are here today, some of them have elected to come and stand with us. so i feel that we are really community activists in soipl ways in terms of bringing people together. i know many people who are here in support of us and our buddhist community also face the fears that we do. every day since this has happened my husband and i when the mail comes, we're, like, who's going to come look at the mail? it's a very scary time. in particular i want to bring up the tic loophole is a real concern that i think is facing beverly and i in that the profit to be made by evicting us and then being able to sell our units as tic units is most likely what our land lord is going to try and do. so that's a real fear. and i worry, i do worry about who will be left to live here. i know on our block we don't have any more chi

upton: dr. row. the speaker pro tempore: gentleman from tennessee is recognized for one minute. mr. roe: i rise in support of the keep grur health care plan act. this bill is important for many people in my district, including jo ann. jo ann lives in limestone,town tfpblet because policy doesn't meet the minimum requirements set by obamacare, she's been forced to buy more expensive health care plan. her premiums will rise from about $95 a month to $200 a month. she felt $95 was affordable, $200 not. despite promises of more affordable health care this law is making insurance unattainable for many across my home state. blue cross and blue shield of tennessee is our state's largest insurer and it's announced it will be forced to send 66,000 cancellation notices to my fellow tennesseans because of obamacare. the medicaid business plan called covered tennessee, another 60,000 loose their care. it's well past time for president obama to work with members of congress to provide relief to the families hurting

it is not the upton bill. democratsas scary to as the upton bill may have been. it is a sign that democrats are uneasy about the politics of people losing their health plan. >> is there any big hearing or big meetings we should know about? >> i am not 100% sure from the docket. -- thethat that bill senate will consider that. some form or another. the president tried to take that off the agenda with his own fix but it does not seem to have mollified everyone. i think -- we have not heard the last of the landrieu bill. caller: thank you for c-span. i had my policy canceled. i am a senior citizen. i lost my mate november 8 and he was 16 years older than i am. i am going to be 82. he got canceled because of pre- existing diseases, but he went which i cannot praise. hold bunch off of my shoulders. after listening to the president and i had gotten a policy that was a much better than what they , those referrals, it took three weeks to get a referral. i that time the cancer had grown twice the size so i called the insurance company and told them i had listened to the pr

if the tenants are forced out like the we family in upton and many families like them, they will have no viable options, or very limited ones as mr. russo's report identifies in san francisco and they would likely be pushed out of the city. these stories are not unique to the mission, to russian hill, to the castro, but the richmond district has huge stories as well of people displaced by the ellis act and other no-fault evictions and in fear of their residence in our city. i did want to say from the sf appeal article it's very clear who the culprits are as well in who's driving the fear and the displacement. the eviction according to the appeal article is driven by a group of speculators, craig good man and associates and craig malloyy who is stated goal is to flip the property for massive profits. we need to figure out as a city how to figure out how to keep these speculators from doing this. there are 80 buildings involved. tech workers moving to the city seems to me a very prdive approach as well as looking at the broader factors as well. early this month another resident as well

so that means why vote for fred upton's bill, for any bills, mr. president, you made this bed, now you've got to sleep in it. >> i agree with john and gavin who had said that the announcement is more about political coverage than insurance coverage. i think the american people will see through that. in a poll this week, americans two to one say this law will make their personality health care experience worse. yes, i think it's time for republicans to come out and say we need to repeal the law in its entirety. they have been saying that. they have been criticized for taking 40 votes that will repeal the law but those are 40 democrats that missed the opportunity to change this outcome. >> you guys are all going to stay, bob, hadley, robert. i'm going to talk about adverse connection and i see a financial imbalance that could bring down this entire insurance plan. >>> coming up, speaker john boehner says we've got to scrap obama care. we will talk to two top republicans about what kind of alternatives are possible. janet yellen makes no bones about i

just the beginning of the fireworks over the upton bill. we will show you what went on inside the capitol and congressman joe barton goes "on the record" next. plus it is a bat kid to the rescue. batman for a day. his absolutely amazing story is coming up. >>> okay, now it's time to hash it out. usually coaches are the ones making athletes run or sprint the university of cincinnati turning the tables. tommy tubberville tweelgt switched it up offer the bear cats players the other day and did some running. tubberville criticized locker room. instead of punishing the players he instructed all coaches to line up on the sidelines and start running. another distant to our favorite the dumb criminal file huffington post weird news tweeting fugitive post facebook comments to own wanted photo. local tv station posting the man's mugshot on facebook page asking police to find him. the fugitive chiming in under the facebook discussion sin demon disputing a u.s. marshall statement listing him as armed and dangerous. police were able to track the man dow

upton: i yield myself the balance of the time. i just say to my friend from pennsylvania, we would have liked to have had some amendments when the affordable care act passed and the rule denied us any amendments. so why are we here? why are we here this afternoon? you know, most observers of the legislative process would say that the president's health care act would never have passed back in 2010 without the assurance that the president gave, even many times this year, that you could keep your health care if you liked it. if you liked it you didn't have to do anything, period. i don't think it would have passed in this chamber or in the senate without that promise that the president gave. then millions of americans in the last couple of months have gotten mail and in that mail it's cancellation notices. and they're seeing their rates go up 200%, 300%, even 400%. deductibles going up in the thousands of dollars. and people coming to us all last week when we were home for our veterans events and parades and all the things that we d

instead the upton bill would destroy health care reform. they would say that everybody, not only those who have policies could renew them. anybody who wanted that kind of a very inferior policy could now essentially take advantage of it. that would destroy the insurance market. it would destroy the private insurance reforms that were necessary. health care reform was built in part on medicaid being more available to those below a certain income and have private insurance available to millions of people. that is what we are trying to do. we should work together instead of the upton bill that would destroy it. louisville, kentucky. republican line. yes, good morning. i have two quick points. we have beencky touted as being -- as having a successful start to this health care bill. however, the majority of our inollees have enrolled medicaid and that is important in our state because our pension system is in crisis. we cannot afford our pensions as they stand now. in three years, when our burden in this new medicaid enrollment is 10%, i have no

so speakers andrew long, victor flores, jose chan, michael lyon, ben caty, hennie kelly, beverly upton, jackie naylor, please come on up. >> yes, my name is andrew long, i might possibly be the only rental provider in this room at the moment. i have been coming it these kinds of hearing for over 15 years. different supervisors, different faces, but same issue. the reason we're having an uptick in these kind of no cause evictions is because of 30 years of bad housing policy. we have seen a continuous ratcheting up of the rent control law on owners, especially small owners including the extension of rent control to small owner-occupied 2 to 4 unit buildings. we have an annual increase allowable of only 60 percent of cpi, which does not keep up with costs or inflation. this has caused rents for long-term tenants to be quite low, which is great for them, but it doesn't keep a building up. your rent control laws need to be more even-handed with the land lords. you are driving land lords, especially small land lords, out of business, and when they go out of business having to sell their prop

. >> good afternoon, supervisors, my name is beverly upton and i'm so honored to also in my day job be the executive director of the san francisco domestic violence consortium. i've come before you hundreds of times over my last 15 years here to advocate on behalf of survivors of domestic violence and to find housing for them, be it shelter or low income housing or market rate housing to keep them safe. but today i'm here because my dear friend and i, jackie naylor live at 186 and 192 goth street and we've been there 23 years and 25 years in rent controlled flats and we started out a month ago yesterday by being threatened with an ellis act eviction. we were given an opportunity, you have the letters there, to negotiate but i can tell you the negotiation lasted less than 48 hours. they went right to threatening us with an ellis act. it's clear that this is the intention unless something changes. the building across the street from us they have already cleared out the residents of the two flats that we look directly across at. there are two restaurants on the corner, that building is go

gwen: the upton bill probably wouldn't pass the senate and if it did the president would veto it. >> not probably, it definitely wouldn't. gwen: it gave the republicans more ammunition. john boehner came out and talked in advance of the president about everything that was wrong with this. >> when it comes to obamacare, it's clear that the american people simply can't trust this white house. the white house said americans could trust them when they submitted their personal information that the website was tested and was secure. well, that hasn't happened. gwen: john boehner a couple of weeks ago was at the bottom of the pile after the government shutdown. now the republicans see a little daylight. >> a lot of daylight and one month tomorrow is when the government shutdown ended. girlfriend. is that all? >> things really hang in a hurry. the white house is hoping this will change in a hurry but probably not so fast. i had heard speaker boehner say similar things throughout the year but this time is different. the president, a failed website have ginn republicans a huge opening and toda

upton: mr. speaker, for the last three years, the president personally promised that if they like their current health care plan that they can keep it no matter what, period. but cancellation notices are now arriving in millions of mailboxes across the country. and in michigan, the great state of michigan, some 225,000 folks will see their plans terminated because of this law. that's twice the number of people who have even been -- who have even tried to select a plan nationwide. now, i've heard from countless families back home that took the president at his word. they're upset, yes, they are, and worried how they're going to make ends meet. a self-employed family of three in bangor, michigan, had purchased their own insurance for more than 30 years. their blue cross blue shield plan was working well, had no deductible, $750 monthly premium. to replace it, the premium is going to nearly double to $1393 and their du ductible will jump to $2,800. in their own words, they told us they had been thr

upton. i look forward to the obama administration supporting this bill. i remain opposed to obama care, but i think we should also help people. >> some of those bills that are available right now are patently fraud length. they're these $40 a month programs that people when they actually get sick discover they're going to be $40,000 down. >> i'm fascinated by the elitism of folks here in washington who explain that the insurance commissioner in ca kpa is stupid. the insurance commissioner in new york is stupid, the insurance commissioner in illinois is stupid because of language you just used, they're allowing fraud length policies. it would be like saying to them, i'm not going to allow you to drive a toyota camry or ford, because those are infear or. i have decided the standard. >> are you mischaracterizing it. if you wanted to make that parallel, you would say i don't think it's appropriate for you to drive the toyota camry, it doesn't have brakes. in fact they were never even installed. the insurance industry is the wild, wild west. so insurance commi

>> andrea, that's why the upton bill is unacceptable. what they want to do is set up two completely separate attacks. affordable care act and new people have insurance coverage that really isn't comprehensive coverage at all. the affordable care act's implementation accounted for actuarially you would have people who keep their plan if they like it, that's what president obama's propose did today, his administrative fix waiving that rule. as we go forward make sure we implement affordable care act. keep in mind, we've had people enjoying benefits of this law since 2010, where young adults can stay on their parents insurance until 26, women and seniors can get insurance without co-pay or deductible. those are the kinds of things republican are trying to take away and roll backwards on the quality affordable coverage they can get. >> surely you're hearing from your colleagues, the members, they are worried about the midterm elections. this is a real political problem. the president was clearly acknowledging that, talking about how people s

upton upton bill -- the bill is a dangerous bill. what it does, not only does it undermine the affordable care does so might as -- it by disrupting the pools and expanding the market of people who can buy into these plans that people had grandfathered in. so it's completely disruptive. i don't know how much republicans support it has. they are not of one mind on the subject either. but we will have a proposal for our members to vote on something on the nor -- floor tomorrow that addresses the problem, it is a fix. we don't have the likelihood of passage. we don't have a likelihood -- we'll see what form it takes. we will see what the rules committee allows us. we will love for them to give us an alternative. we will see if they are likely to do that, but we'll exercise our parliamentary options with something tomorrow. so think of a belt and suspenders. do any of you wear belts and suspenders? >> i wear a belt. >> ok. [laughter] >> well, think of a belt and suspenders, what the president will put forth will be one and what we will do

saw on a basic level this sounds just like the keep your plan bill that republican congressman fred upton has been shopping in the house for the past few weeks or so up to this bill would allow americans to keep their junk policies their junk health care plans and also allow insurers to continue selling those junk policies that don't meet minimum standards through next year there's one big difference between upton's plan and the president's plan though the president's plan doesn't allow insurers to continue to sell junk policies indefinitely to new customers like upton's plan does it simply allows people to keep their junk plans for a year or longer the president's fix also requires insurance companies to tell their customers just how bad their junk plans they get to keep really are remember those plans that the president is now allowing people to keep aren't really plans at all they're like eleven cars with exploding gas tanks their health insurance plans in name only something that countless americans eventually find out once they actually get sick but still some americans who haven't g

the upton bill yesterday. which would allow americans to keep their health insurance plans even if the plans don't meet obama care standards. one california democrat who voted for the bill says he has to do what's best for his constituents back home. some house republicans say the problem is only going to get worse for democrats. >> when the employers start canceling their employer-based health care plans and putting those people in the exchange, it's going to get worse. the democrats own this law. it is a turkey. it is a lemon. and it is just a question of time before a lot of democrats wake up to that fact. >> the president launched a preemptive strike on thursday before this vote on the upton bill yesterday and says his administration is trying to fix the problem and allow people to keep their plans. he also talked about the disastrous rollout of obama care and the effect on democrats. >> i feel deeply responsible for making it harder for them to continue to promote the core values that led them to support

saw on a basic level this sounds just like the keep your plan bill that republican congressman fred upton has been shopping in the house for the past few weeks or so up to this bill would allow americans to keep their junk policies their junk health care plans and also allow insurers to continue selling those junk policies that don't meet minimum standards through next year there's one big difference between upton's plan and the president's plan though the president's plan doesn't allow insurers to continue to sell junk policies indefinitely to new customers like upton's plan does it simply allows people to keep their junk plans for a year or longer the president's fix also requires insurance companies to tell their customers just how bad their junk plans they get to keep really are remember those plans that the president is now allowing people to keep aren't really plans at all they're like eleven cars with exploding gas tanks their health insurance plans in name only something that tell us americans eventually find out once they actually get sick but still some americans who haven't got

upton, for five minutes. >> thank you again, mr. chairman, and appreciate this morning's hearing on the implementation of the fda's safety and innovation act. as many of us know, this was one of the committee's most significant bipartisan achievements in the last congress. it really was. i particularly want to thank dr. woodcock who's with us and dr. shurin for coming today to provide an update on that implementation, something we said we would do when it passed. last congress this committee held at least ten hearings on subjects related to the legislation, and at these hearings we focused on improving the predictability, consistency and transparency of fda's regulation of drugs and medical devices. improving fda regs brings life saving and life-improving drugs and medical devices to american patients and boosts job creation across the country including southwest michigan, importantly. i was very proud of the bipartisan work that we did in the last congress, and i am pleased to hear that initial reports on implementation especially

and it -- steny hoyer wasn't clear about whether he would vote for the upton bill. i was talking to one guy on the hill said you could get up to 100 democrats voting for the upton bill on the house. on the senate side the trickier. poll numbers evaporate. that's why jay carney today promised a fixed sooner rather than later because they understand that there is an incredible amount of interest in voting for something that gets these guys off the hook. i don't think it will necessarily succeed. i think the landrieu bill is probably illegal. but, the democrats need something to say we he were lied to too. >> here is the press secretary. >> the president actually admitted that he knew people would lose their plans, yet, he kept making this false promise, that somehow people could keep their plans if they liked them. >> i will stipulate what you might expect that i was not present for a conversation, what sounds like a private conversation between eric cantor and the president. what i can tell is you is like the rest of the house leadership, congressman cantor has worke

so (calling names) and then if there's other cards as well as beverly upton >> hello, i'm elaine turning i came here to thank you today. i'm so appreciate that you are here to try to help us. we are desperate. thank you. >> i'm living in the same building as elaine i've been there thirty years we're are total of 6 unit being evicted on the 5 hundred block of lombard and innovate fourteen unit 0 that's 20 units on our street alone. on the 5 hundred block of cellist nut street we have february and april and july. the gentleman that i know in the cellist nut address is a 78 italian whose lived under thirty years and we call it italian city. how do we push out our italians and have a flavor and identify a sense of community. we are a total of 26 people that i know of for sure who are living within a block and a half all within a 6 month period to - the destruction is certainly losing our neighbors and so i'm - it would be wonderful if the preference can also be in one's own neighborhood so the neighborhood isn't destroyed but whatever can be done to assure us a home without having to leave t

the upton bill yesterday. which would allow americans to keep their health insurance plans even if those plans do not meet obamacare standards. one california democrat who sided with republicans and voted for the bill says democrats have to be flexible as the law takes effect. >> what we have to do is take the things that are working and continue to build off of that. but then we have to be open as a party for those things that aren't work to be ready to identify them and fix them and make them better. >> reporter: some house republicans say they expect to see more defections by democrats on future bills related to obamacare. >> when the employers start canceling their employer-based health care plans and putting those people in the exchanges, it's going to get worse. the democrats own this law. it is a turkey. it is a lemon and it is a question of time before a lot of democrats wake up to that fact. >> reporter: the president launched a preemptive strike on thursday and said his administration is trying to fi

perhaps a shorter term fix because the upton bill is open ended. it's permanent, whereas the bill in the senate would be for a short period of time so he may try to do something that's more narrow and addresses other people's concerns, big policy changes have winners and losers and we're starting to see the first round of that now. and the reality is that there say big political implication here ask not just for the president, but for the people running for reelection and that's why we've seen some of these democrats, thinking about balog the white house because they're worried about 2014, but you've got the dnc chair, debbie wasserman schulze on the opposite side of the fence. >> you're darn right that our candidates will run on the advantage that obama care will be going into the 2014 election because the choice will be very clear. >> in response, karl rove, didi wrote today, republicans should play every night that democrats should take their delusional advice. who is right here? debbie wasserman schultz? we don't know. the white house feels fai

even if congressman upton's bill is taken up. i don't know how you can force insurance companies to reinstate policies they have already cancelled. and even if you could, i mean, obviously the federal government can do that to an insurance company, i think it's illegal. even if you, could the insurance companies have to get permission from the states. we're up against the clock. i mean, i don't see how any of this -- i think this is fanciful talk. >> leave with you a quote from edgar allen poe what a tangled web we we've -- weave when at first you practice to deceive. >> if you like your health insurance you can keep it, period, and then it begins to unravel. you have got a couple 'of options you can admit to people that you lied which he has not done thus far or you can look to congress to bail you you out. i'm happy to bail my fellow citizens out but i'm not going to bail him out. >> forget the political aspect. some people out there in the middle of like chemotherapy and they have gotten the notice at the end of the year their

i do know that upton bill, if it went all the way through, it passed out of the house today. >> with 39 democrats for it. >> but i don't think it will go through senate. the problem with the upton bill is it is not just keeping the promise if you like your policy, you can keep it. if you like that other guy's policy that you had but you didn't have, you can go get that. that's a completely different promise. >> one of the thing i don't get is, you know, you say this is a socialistic takeover, a government takeover. the problem is that's just not true. it really is in fact the case, i'm from the left coast. from california. >> why is it failing so badly? the government tries to control the economy. look at the soviet union. >> now we're talking about the sew yet union? >> now, look, people on the left really want a single payer system. so even the left doesn't want obama care. they want single payer and we want a market driven patient centraled system. >> start over. right now, here's what we have. we have the plan that nixon wanted. we have the plan that night gingrich wanted, the he

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for example, republican congressman fred upton, he's the new hero, proposing a bill on the house that takes the president's, quote, fix one step further. not only would junk insurance be extended, it's a trojan horse, but insurance companies would be allowed to sell new junk policies with things like lifetime limits on coverage. this totally goes against the affordable care act. the bill would gut the consumer protections put in place by the law known as obama care. well, earlier today, here we go, upton's bill passed the house with the support of 39 house democrats. and the liberal community across america, they're wondering, what the heck are these folks thinking? upton said today he thinks the bill is a better fix. >> what our bill did was it brought it back, brought the attention back, and yes, we can resolve oh this issue for millions of folks who have found their premiums are going up, double, triple, even 400%. and being stuck with the policy that, frankly, they don't want, they cannot afford, and they want to retain the choice they had, which was really, when you go back to th

this upton bill would have undermined it completely. it's another way of undoing obama care. >> ron, you have written about how the stakes for the party as a whole, the very message can government fix things, can government help, you are talking about not just in 2014 but longer term. >> absolutely. look, the democrats have long viewed health care reform, the guarantee of universal health care, as their best way of demonstrating to skeptical voters, particularly in the white middle class, that government can in fact provide them tangible benefits. after decades of running, they are the dog that caught the bus. they now have the program. they need to show that it can work. instead, in the initial rollout at least, they still ultimately have time to reverse this, but in the initial rollout they've had kind of a disastrous first few weeks that have compounded the doubts, compounded the problem that the program is meant to solve. >> this president always talked about what government can do for you. he wants to embark on immigration reform,

. >> reporter: the bill sponsored by michigan republican fred upton passed mostly along party lines. it goes further than the president's fix, allowing insurance companies to sell plans to consumers, not previously covered. democrats say that the bill is designed to destroy the federal health care exchanges. >> now they're trying to do so with a trojan horse that they call the upton bill. >> there is not enough time to resubmit the canceled policies before the affordable care act on december 15's deadline. >> a logistical nightmare. politically the president is doing nothing more than throwing the hot potato over the cancellation. >> the health officials from both washington state and arkansas have said they will not allow health care providers to offer canceled plans to consumers. for cbs news, the white house. >> a total of 39 house democrats broke ranks with the white house and voted for the bill to allow consumers to keep their current health care plans. >>> the state branch of the affordable care act will be on hand today to answer their question about health care reform. it's a

39 house members voted in favor of upholding congressman upton's bill. that if you want to keep your insurance, you can. are they racist? >> this is where it's getting a little confusing already here. i don't understand. we're try to make the connection with obama care. when you talk about michael moore, michael moore does not represent a vast majority of the democratic party or liberals or anything else. >> okay, oprah says because he's a black president, joe wilson yelled out -- i know we're playing it. they're yelling in my ear we're going to play it. let's do it then. otherwise bob says you guys are making stuff up. no, the people on left, a lot of the barack obama supporters -- >> a lot of? >> his money people in hollywood say if you don't agree with him it's likely because you're racist. >> you know what, let's play that. oprah on the bbc. i don't know what the bbc is. i think it's a type of candy. she says criticism -- >>er crossed your mind some of the treatment obama and the challenges he's faced and some of the reporting he's received is becaus

. >> arizona democratic congressman who voted for the upton bill said that obama care is a huge bill over 2,000 pages and there are going to be unintended consequences and things are not working and i am about fixing things that don't work. and the democrat from new jersey who voted against the upton bill, 80 percent of the democrats stayed together and stayed with the president on the house vote. harris? >> when the employers start to cancel -- >> that was obviously a technical error and molly and i are talking to each another. and we have 39 democrats in the house and six in the senate and republicans say they expect more democratic defection. >> as more of the obama care law gets implemented house republicans believe that the democrats will jump ship. >> when the employers start to cancel those plans and putting those people in the exchanges, it is going to get worse. the democrats own the law and it is it a turkey and lemon and a question of time before the democrats wake up to the fact. >> the upton bill faces a steep cloim. but if it were to get through, president obama would l

one of 39 democrats that sided with the gop on that upton bill. how much of a blow is that to the white house? >> if you at the democrats sided with republicans on this bill they're from moderate districts. what do you do with this? this is the president's signature bill. supposedly his signature achieve mtd. all of these problems are having a huge problem with trust within the white house. i think there's a big problem here for the 39 democrats who voted against this bill. >> and let's hear what nancy pelosi had to say on the floor of the house yesterday. >> this is politics. it's not about policy. it isn't any attempt to improve the affordable care act. >> so, ed, politics not policy, what specifically in the bill could hurt the survival of the affordable care act? >> well, it's the idea that essentially insurance companies could continue those plans that don't meet the new standards established by the new law and those insurance companies could then sell those plans to new people, that strikes right at the heart at the purpose of the affordable

upton: mr. speaker, h.r. 252 is designed to strengthen health care for children, perblesly as a rule initial children. it includes re-authorization of the national pediatrics network and the chimp act. the original preemie act i sponsored signed into law in 2006, december, brought much-needed attention to problems related to preterm birth. . according to the c.d.c., half a million babies are born premature, that is one in eight. this legislation will continue and strengthen the ongoing effort to track, prevent and treat prematurity, ensuring that every child, every child has a healthy start and a better chance at a healthy and productive future. in addition to addressing premature births, this legislation seeks to help children and their families with unmet health needs. the national pediatric research network provides more help to children with rare pediatric and genetic diseases. this could help the kennedys in my district. eric and sarah kennedy have two wonderful little daughters. brook and

so the upton bill called for a delay. and it allowed insurance companies to enroll new people without the basic policies of the affordable care act. pre-existing condition, caps, et cetera. so if they were sincere, there's a lot to get done. i don't think there's any amount of sincerity in what they're proposing. >> there are a lot of democrats who have said repeatedly up to now, as long as this does get working, as long as people can get logged, this will take care of itself. now we're seeing at the "washington post" that says by the end of the month, the website may shut out one in five people. is that acceptable? >> well, one of the things that we can do as democrats is really promote the parts of the act that are working such as your previous guest mentioned. or i'm from the state of california where you have everybody in favor of affordable care act and cover california is working well. so signing it's our responsibility to promote where the law has been implemented well. and then also to do whatever we can to repair

and this guy like fred upton, he just had delivered to his office michigan i, 91 bags of apples grown by a local farmer. the local farmer pleading with fred upton, to please support immigration reform because he sees it as key to his farm. if you're making a prediction about that, it may help you toe no about fred upton that he is the inheriter of the whirlpool portion. his grandfather founded whirlpool, you know like washer dries and stuff. that's kind of the biographical for for lots and lots of members of congress. members of congress you like, and members of congress you don't like. jim sensening brenner turned up a real story about whether there's any hope in save -- jim sensenbrenner may be the best hope that there is for any republican leadership on reinstating the bones of the voting rilings act, after the supreme court tore it down this summer. >>> also, jim sensenbrenner's great grandfather invented kotex. behind all these members of congress, behind more of them that you would think, that's kind of the story of congress, democratic senate and house, members of congress you

it is not the upton bill, it is not as scary to democrats as the upton bill may have been, but it is also a sign that democrats are uneasy about the politics of people losing their health plan. host: is there any big hearing are big meeting that we should know about over the week? a hundred percent sure from the docket. i know that bill in particular is going to get a lot of attention. the senate probably will consider that in some form or another. the president obviously charge taken off the agenda with his own fix but it doesn't seem to mollified everyone. we haven't heard a lot. caller: good morning, how are you. host: doing well how are you? caller: i had my policy canceled. i'm a senior citizen. plan on november the eighth. than i am.ears older i'm going to be 82. he got canceled because of pre- existing diseases, but he went to hospice which i cannot praise . they just took a whole bunch off of my shoulders. presidentening to the , and i had artie gotten a policy that was so much better ,han what they canceled me on no referrals. those referrals, you could be three weeks. i hav

law to make it work better can you name one republican who's interested in making it work better fred upton is the judge's legislation that the house will vote on friday which will improve the situation of those people who have been damaged by this law it won't fix it because it's unfixable but it will patch the hole in the roof and that it gives us more time to repair the foundations or frankly to build new foundations for a better health care system of the country and it go ahead tom but i accept that fred fred upton fundamentally opposes obamacare is a natural one is what about the because legislatures are just provided. no matter what it is that is this is this extraordinary sturm and drang you know this all you know the president clinton has said we should change dick durbin says we should change you know social security came out nine hundred thirty five it's been amended hundreds of times what's their latest strategy though is tailgating a group funded by the koch brothers is sponsoring tailgate parties at college for college football games they give away pizza bear misinformation dis