Peter Welch: “I am so glad that you brought that up because what drives everyone crazy is the so-called cost shift. A lot of our…”

“I am so glad that you brought that up because what drives everyone crazy is the so-called cost shift. A lot of our community hospitals, they get underreimbursed, oftentimes on Medicare or Medicaid. And then the employer-sponsored premiums are the only place the providers can go to cover their legitimate costs. So there is a huge spike in the cost. If you have all these folks without healthcare and they are showing up and getting free care, then somebody has got to pay, and that is going to be the employer-sponsored and private pay. The Senator from New Hampshire was right in pointing out we have got this broken system that we are making worse with this effort. So thank you so much for that, the Senator from New Hampshire. I wanted to go back to these numbers too. In Alaska, 23,000 folks, they can lose their healthcare or they are going to have a premium increase. That family with $82,800 in income, it is $44,000. So that is a 554-percent increase. In Wyoming, 40,000 folks rely on the ACA tax credits. That 60-year-old couple with an $82,000 income, their premium is going up $37,000. That is $3,000 a month. In West Virginia, 49,000 folks losing. That 60-year-old couple, $82,000 income, $39,000 premium increase; $3,000 a month. What we know is that can't happen. It cannot happen. You are literally, through passivity in this U.S.…”