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That the premiums will go down, these people who hitherto didnt have insurance, will now be able to get preventive tests, so maybe the number of services they need will go down. >> when you explain it like a physician, you are, of public policy, sounds so simple. why does this darn bill have to be as fat as an old sears-roebuck catalog? most people dont like that. they dont like why its so big and complicated if its as simple as you just said. >> two facts, the decision today, 199 pages, just de...

Perspective on this piece of legislation. i think this piece of legislation was a meaningful accomplishment in expanding coverage for americans, and an absolute abomination when it kem to reforming or ending the corrupt nature of the health care system and its dysfunction. so i give them points for saying we should cover people, and then i blast them to my greatest level for empowering the health insurance monopolies, not addressing the cost issue, maintaining the employer-based health care syst...

Ive been traveling, im glad im here. listen, i disagree first of all this is theater. its true that the senate says theyre not going to take it up, but bills pass the house, this it goes to the senate if he believes he can win the vote, allow the vote to happen and well see it go forward. once it passes the house today, the latest e-mail i just got is the vote will happen around 5:30 today, so lets wait and see what happens. the majority of americans dont like this law for a lot of reasons i agr...

Benefits go out to 26 weeks. now theyve extended eight times. were at 99 weeks. the unemployment rate is still extremely high. big problem is the moneys being borrowed and added to the deficit. the deficit is one of the biggest problems we have in terms of future long-term interest rates which are very worrisome to companies and nothings really being done to attack the root of the problem which is the reluctance of companies, especially small companies, to hire people. putting this in context, i...