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Were just getting in. tomorrow the president, as weve been telling you, is expected to unveil a revised health care reform package. we have been reporting that it will include some republican proposals. the ap is now saying that the president will be sending a letter to democratic leaders sometime today with more details. its reported that the plan could include expanding the use of fraud investigators disguised as patients to uncover waste and abuse, also could expand pilot programs on medical ...

Welcome back to "hardball." in a letter today to congress al leaders, president obama outlined four republican ideas for thursdays summit, or from last thursdays summit that he said hes exploring right now. they are senator coburn suggesting to curb medicare fraud by having undercover investigators disguised as patients. and republicans to expand medical malpractice reform pilot programs. senator grassley suggested to increase payment to doctors who treat medicaid patients. and senator grassos s...

Chris. when you go out and have some sort of a physical problem, or go to a hospital, and they go through all the procedures, when was the last time any of us who have insurance actually looked over the bill and said, what is this item? why did that cost so much? the assumption here that the insurance is going to take care of it, without ever questioning is one of the things we do in the bill is inquire a lot of transparency on these issues so people can know what theyre actually getting or not ...

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 ...

And not knowledgeable about it and dont have alternatives. and 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 have paid a lot of attention to this issue. they have focused on it like a laser for months. but surveys are -- >> if you took something like malpractice reform which you all had really wanted to put in there in a real form rath...

And not knowledgeable about it and dont have alternatives. we laid out a number of different things that we think would make more sense to go step by step to fix the cost problem, and also its important to remember, the american people do not want this bill. they paid a lot of attention to the issue. they focused on it like a laser for months. >> if you took something like malpractice reform, which you all have really wanted to put in there in a real form rather than pilot programs here and ther...

The insurance market is reform. we had a chance on thursday to actually display some of our brightest, most knowledgeable republicans. i thought it was very good for us because it certainly refuted the notion that republicans are not interested in the subject and not knowledgeable about it and dont have alternatives. we laid out a number of different things that we think would make more sense to go step by step to fix the cost problem, and also its important to remember, the american people do n...

Whether they like it or not. >> now, one of the things the president has talked about is trying to find some common ground. if he comes out this morning and offers a new compromise, maybe an idea on medical malpractice, tort reform, is there anything that republicans would be willing to give on in return? >> well, that would be positive. weve heard the president talk about medical liability reform which the congressional budget office said would save $55 billion over the next ten years. but then...

Now, not only have i asked kathleen to initiate pilot programs at the state level, but there are some examples of legislation that i actually would be interested in pursuing. tom coburn, you and richard burr have talked about incentivizing and allowing states to experiment more vigorously with ways to reduce frivolous lawsuits and pursuit settlements and reduce defensive medicine. thats something i could like to get going. so i might not agree to what john boehners proposed and its interesting t...

And robotics have the potential to put millions of people out of work. a study by mckinsey, the management consulting firm, says technological changes in the workplace will replace one fifth of the nations workforce, 800 million workers, by the year 2030. hardest hit will be machine operators and food processors. but paralegals, accountants, and other back office staff, could see their jobs disappear too. proponents say recipients of universal income wouldnt be starting from zero. pilot programs...