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Im not sure he can do it. >> bill: i dont know if he will try to do it because as mr. rove said he may just try to show the country that the republicans are intractable because we do expect the republicans to go up there and say, look, unless you put in tort reform. unless you put in interstate competition of insurance companies two stallworths and maybe -- you are a democrat. maybe you can explain to me why those things are not in the bill, mr. doug schoen. they are not in the bill. the republi...

Like medicare. but in the end, he democrats are putting this out there saying we tried. we tried to have some sort of discussion in washington and now we move out on to plan b. >> first theyre going to try plan a. >> reconciliation. >> and to flip it around, the fact is, as you saw with dick durbin. some democrats dont want the malpractice. you have a speech by dick durbin saying malpractice reform stinks. >> i cited $250,000 for the woman with her face burned. he pointed out the cost of malprac...

>> bill: i dont know if he will try to do it because as mr. rove said he may just try to show the country that the republicans are intractable because we do expect the republicans to go up there and say, look, unless you put in tort reform. unless you put in interstate competition of insurance companies two stallworths and maybe -- you are a democrat. maybe you can explain to me why those things are not in the bill, mr. doug schoen. they are not in the bill. the republicans have been hammering t...

They have been talking about this for the last year to figure out whether or not it would be necessary. seems evident from those watching from the hill on television and staffers e-mailing from inside the room on both sides of the aisle, democrats and republicans alike, the row conciliation train is leaving the station. reconciliation could take weeks. >> bret: okay, sorry to interrupt you. watching the president and the vice president walk across and i want to listen in to see if we hear anythi...

Hospital saying reform is necessary. you cant have the insurers doing this to people. for those of you who sit around saying i dont want it, you are forgetting the actual patients. >> i dont agree. you saw this morning lamar alexander was eloquent. say he goes to the hospital -- this health reform is not going to solve the problem as alexander said. where are the doctors going to be in that hospital? without malpractice reform they wont be in hospitals in rural areas. megyn: we had many democrat...

>> bill: i dont know if he will try to do it because as mr. rove said he may just try to show the country that the republicans are intractable because we do expect the republicans to go up there and say, look, unless you put in tort reform. unless you put in interstate competition of insurance companies two stallworths and maybe -- you are a democrat. maybe you can explain to me why those things are not in the bill, mr. doug schoen. they are not in the bill. the republicans have been hammering t...

Alisyn: lets try to move this forward, this health care summit is coming up february 25th, thats less than ten days from now. what do you think the white house can do to turn it around and get the winning hand again? >> the white house can brush the plan aside and start over. lets look at common sense reforms that republicans like paul ryan have been putting forward since the beginning, tort reform, less special -- lets get special interests out of this debate and look at what we can do immediat...

Antitrust exemption, what about tort reform? i dont see any of that in there. >> all of thats in there. im the leading supporter of tort recommend. the my bill. and portability is very important and obviously insurance across state lines works, so i support all those concepts. the basic theme of my proposal is lets control the cost of health care. i mean, the simple fact is we as a government and we as a nation cannot afford the blurnlgonning, exploding cost of health care in this country and un...

Possibility you could lead a group of republicans to try to do something, the polling all shows that people still by a majority want something on health care. >> first off i like olympia a lot, shes a respected and effective force in the senate, but im a hard core fiscal conservative. i dont mind saying it. i am and quite proud of it honestly. for me the health care issue revolves around getting the costs under control as well as getting better health care and more access. the problem with the b...

Saying, absolutely no way. we have done nine months worth of work on this, and there are some things that we can agree on. and the president is saying, we will give some and i will be prepared to give some maybe on malpractice reform which is what you want, but if you think you can cover more people and it is going to cost less people, you have the show it to me. >> right. >> and so, it is pretty tough. pretty tough. >> he did say he would work around the senate in particular if they dont deal w...