Senator Chuck Schumer

And there was an outcry, and under Lyndon Johnson, we've had Medicare and Medicaid, and we've advanced it and made it better and better and better, making it easier for people to afford their health care.

But a large group of Republicans have never wanted to do it.

And it's these MAGA right-wingers.

And they just hate having the government involved in helping people.

But the average person without health insurance, without Medicare, without Medicaid,

Can't afford it, period.

It's gotten, as you know, more expensive now because, and look, it's not a perfect system at all.

I mean, it's far from a perfect system.

It's far from a perfect, but people are living longer and healthier because they have the resources to get the kind of medical care that you and millions of other doctors and healthcare professionals give them.

So here's the horrible thing.

They would rather not negotiate with us and shut down the government than provide this health care.

It's almost religion to some of them.

And it's horrible.

But.

They're against the American people.

Here's an interesting little poll statistic.

I don't usually like to cite these polls.

Extending these ACA premiums, which will dramatically cause the rates to rise for everyone that they can't afford it, or they have to sit down and say, oh, God, I'll have to really cut back.

I can't go to the doctor or hospital I want to go to.

I have to pay much more in co-pays and in deductibles.