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>> neil: when speaker pelosi says you will do fine and medicare addresses it -- this is what he said. i want your reaction. >> the truth is democrats believe that health insurance reform must strengthen medicare, never harm it. thats why the health insurance reform legislation will improve care and benefits, improve care and benefits under medicare and extend medicare solvency. >> neil: why dont you believe her? >> thats just words. you and i know that wont happen. in the bill, the senate bill c...

Healthcare and 30-some million people will be covered who werent covered and the ends do justify the means. is there any argument to that? is there a real possibility that once this thing becomes law, even people who are talking to you about not like it will be won over when they see the results? >> i dont believe that many the case. you can look at studies by cbo that says not only are health insurance costs not going down if obama care becomes claw. but for many individual policies you will se...

Dont add to peoples health outcomes but were oversubsidizing insurance companies going after fraud and abuse which is why the president directed the attorney general, put together strike task forces, additional ideas are in there. >> you dont deal with tort reform which the president talked about. >> actually we do. thats just not true. he moved ahead on tort reform early on, directing me to put money -- well, the states are in various stages. many states like my own state of kansas have passed ...

Oversubsidizing insurance companies going after fraud and abuse which is why the president directed the attorney general, put together strike task forces, additional ideas are in there. >> you dont deal with tort reform which the president talked about. >> actually we do. thats just not true. he moved ahead on tort reform early on, directing me to put money -- well, the states are in various stages. many states like my own state of kansas have passed full tort reform. others havent. this is real...

Because its the arrogance of power. it is jamming something through because you have the votes, not because its the right thing to do and not because your members believe in it because you saw they had to buy half of them, nebraska and louisiana. >> sure. >> purchases. and ill tell you what happens, people out, independents, will be absolutely off the charts when they say were going to not get any substantial change, we are going to have to pay more, republicans are secretly saying, yeah, pass t...

Situation. >> whether it comes to -- malpractice reform, whether its volume, whether it comes to salaries for doctors, do you really assert you disagree with warren buffett that this adequately spends the cost curve? >> according to the nonpartisan accounting congressional budget office, they say we get over $100 billion in deficit savings the first ten years, and that ramps up as you look in the outer years to $1 trillion. i think thats real cost cutting. i think thats real change in the defici...

Support. my point is, major social policy change, whether its medicare, social securities over the years, civil rights for that matter, has been done with broad, bipartisan support, and youre getting one party saying were were going to go it alone. were not going to get buy-ins from the republicans. if he wanted a bipartisan product, a year ago he should have come to the republicans. >> the president has said today, in fact, that he incorporated republican ideas from last weeks summit on malprac...

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And thank you so much for joining us today. >> thank you for having me. >> developing right now, democratic official is telling the associated press that president barack obama is going to add some republican proposals to a revised health care package that hell unveil tomorrow. obama reportedly plans to send the letter to congressional leaders detailing that plan. that plan includes disguised as patients to uncover waste and abuse. and it would expand pilot groups on malpractice reform and addre...

And dont have alternatives. we laid out a number of different things that we think will make a lot more sense to go step by step to fix the cost problem and also it is important to remember the american people do no want this bill. they paid a lot of attention to this issue. they have focused on it like a laser for months. surveys are -- >> if you took something like malpractice reform which you all is had wanted to put in there in a real form rather than just pilot programs here and there, the ...