obamacare pre existing conditions

fiscal year... which begins in july. will thousands of connecticut residents with 'pre-existing conditions' suddenly become 'un-insurable?'that's the big question as republicans in congress move ahead this week with a plan to repeal

"obamacare" even thoughthey "do not" ...yet have a plan to replace it.chief political correspondent mark davis joins us live with more... good evening. democrats around the country are staging events calling attention to the best

parts of the affordable care act.... and hoping to garner public support for moving more slowly on the repeal. 3 60 year old gaye hyre of west haven was

diagnosed with breast cancer seven years ago. it was a time when her husband has lost his job and they had lost their insurance. her treatment was covered by the connecticut 'charter oak' plan which was eventually absorbed by the

federal 'affordable care act,' 'obamacare.' [hyre] "i am a breast cancer survivor and if the 'affordable care act' is removed i will be uninsurable." repeal would mean the protections in the aca, like

no refusal of coverage because of pre-existing conditions, would be suddenly gone.[hyre] "should i be so unfortunate as to have a recurrence; bascially i would lose my home and i won't know where to go or what to do." there are

thousands of other connecticut residents like gaye that would be in the same kind of uninsurable health care crisis if the congress moves ahead with repeal without some sort of plan to replace it. [hyre] "it's

terrifying, i think it's foolish and i think it's something that we all have to stand up against." [brunetti] "my medications cost upward of 250 thousand dollars a year and that's before i set foot in the doctor's office for exams

and tests." colleen brunetti of west hartford has "pulmonary hypertension," a rare lung disease. without obamacare, insurance companies could again impose annual limits on how much they will pay.[esty] "repeal and

no 'replace' is a disaster. it's wrong. it's sloganeering. it's shameful and it's dangerous." [blumenthal] "this week begins the battle and that's why we are here today to say no to the republican effort to 'make

america sick again." democratic senators from around the country are scheduled to take to the senate floor in washington starting at this hour... in speeches denoucing this move.

and with events like this one in hartford today in hopes of holding off the repeal until until a suitable replacement is also on the agenda. in the senate, democrats will need to convince 3 republicans to join with them to stop the

repeal effort. live, from the hartford newsroom, mark davis, news 8.