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Health care. >> [ inaudible ] >> what canny do change yours? >> congressman stupak is emerging as an authentic american hero. i want him to stand strong. >> greta: democrats are going full speed ahead trying to push through health care -- will doing whatever it takes help or hurt in november? joining us kirsten powers. methodology in terms of getting pushed through. i asked griff jenkins how many people he thought were out there. looks like they are passionate, about 500.

Health bill, we will pass this bill. no doubt about it. >> when do you think itll pass, congressman? do you think this is a vote on saturday? and are you going to have to resort to this procedure where the vote is rolled into the rule and so voting for the rule is actually accepting the unpopular senate bill? >> i think -- im not sure what the methodology will be. keep in mind, its my understanding that the -- marry reid has just gotten some numbers from the cbo. were waiting for numbers from th...

Pare it down with the changes bill. so, what they are doing is taking something called a rule, sort of a procedural vote, normally it doesnt do a whole lot, members of congress vote on it and they say, hey, were going to debate for this long, but what theyre doing is theyre rolling the senate bill into the rule, and here im going to -- ill staple it together, so we can make it official. its stuck in there. and then they would vote on the rule which would deem that the senate bill is passed and t...

Units, and often favors specialists like cardiologists and brain surgeons, while squeezing out doctors, who provide more general care. anita vogel joins us live from los angeles, nice to see you. how does the current system for paying doctors work? >> well, hi there, like you said, relative value units are used for sure and this is part of a formula developed by a harvard economist more than 20 years ago, basically, it is a point system, the more training a doctor has, the more procedures or hig...

Afford health care. it is more a victim for insurance companies than for ordinary people. if they asked for my advice and i know they are not. i would take each issue individually and start out with a bill that requires insurance companies to cover preexisting medical conditions. have an up or down vote on that i cant imagine the democrats, voting against the people. >> greta: i think thats what the republicans wanted to do. take issue by issue the president and the democratic party wanted a bil...

Afford health care. it is more a victim for insurance companies than for ordinary people. if they asked for my advice and i know they are not. i would take each issue individually and start out with a bill that requires insurance companies to cover preexisting medical conditions. have an up or down vote on that i cant imagine the democrats, voting against the people. >> greta: i think thats what the republicans wanted to do. take issue by issue the president and the democratic party wanted a bil...

Reforms strictly on party line vote it has always been overwhelmingly bipartisan. the american people have said start over and stop. they will be using parliamentary tactics to fly in the face of overwhelming opposition on the part of the american people. >> greta: which raises an interesting issue. if you think about it, if the american people dont want this, i guess the numbers are 55% are now opposed and would like to start over. not posed to health care reform, but at least as it is now. the...

And the methodology of the particular insurgents that we were portraying. so i think that it -- i think its a pretty difficult situation over there. >> yeah. >> yeah, i think it was actually, a personal movie for everybody that worked on it. it was a hard movie to get made, and nobody really did it for the money, because we didnt have any money, and no studio wanted to finance it. and then theres this kind of unspoken, not really discussed on set, but a sense of responsibility that you have when...

Every single day. and realizing the cunningness and the methodology of the particular insurgents that we were portraying. so i think that it -- i think its a pretty difficult situation over there. >> yeah. >> yeah, i think it was actually, a personal movie for everybody that worked on it. it was a hard movie to get made, and nobody really did it for the money, because we didnt have any money, and no studio wanted to finance it. and then theres this kind of unspoken, not really discussed on set, ...

18% cant name one. >> thats unbelievable. lets do house cleaning first, critics say the study is flawed so the institute tested 14,000 people. any flaws in this study? >> well, i mean, there may be. i dont have the data right in front of me or the methodology, but seems straight forward. you take a large pool of college graduates and a basic civics test, do you know for instance does the united states constitution allow the establishment of a national religion or not. thats pretty simple questio...