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He may incorporate things that they like, like tort reform and portability, being able to cross over state lines with your insurance plan. would that kind of change convince you to vote yes? >> i need to see that this bill thats being put forward is substantially different than the bill i had to vote on in the house. i voted no for some very specific reasons. a lack of cost containment. i didnt like the income tax increase that was in there. and i didnt like the mandate on small businesses. so t...

Care bill? i might say at this point, im not in favor. are you in favor of eliminating preexisting condition? yeah. are you in favor of portability for coverage? yeah. they are in favor of components. >> are you in favor of the government having a deal with the tort lawyers so there is no tort reform? no are you -- >> lets do it right now. were doing it. >> its easy. >> are you in favor of -- and this is the most telling thing. glenn greenwald was sitting right there, he says this is a terrible ...

Americans now, instead of embracing the hope and change deal that president obama got elected on are afraid of him. they are afraid that the government is out of control. am i wrong? >> you ash absolutely right, bill. they are afraid of big government, big taxes, and an overreaching federal bureaucracy that they are afraid is going way beyond what they expect or want. >> bill: so what is it then that the president has to do to turn that around? >> well, what the president has to do, and what he ...

Americans now, instead of embracing the hope and change deal that president obama got elected on are afraid of him. they are afraid that the government is out of control. am i wrong? >> you ash absolutely right, bill. they are afraid of big government, big taxes, and an overreaching federal bureaucracy that they are afraid is going way beyond what they expect or want. >> bill: so what is it then that the president has to do to turn that around? >> well, what the president has to do, and what he ...

Americans now, instead of embracing the hope and change deal that president obama got elected on are afraid of him. they are afraid that the government is out of control. am i wrong? >> you ash absolutely right, bill. they are afraid of big government, big taxes, and an overreaching federal bureaucracy that they are afraid is going way beyond what they expect or want. >> bill: so what is it then that the president has to do to turn that around? >> well, what the president has to do, and what he ...

What happens when someone loses a job and cant afford after cobra runs out to pay for it and issue of portability. thats what should have been accomplished today. instephed, all they did -- instead all they did is waste the american peoples time. when you waste our time, you waste our money. from the lights overhead and pen and s pencils to salary we pay them. president of the united states and the congress wasted the american taxpayer time and money today. unacceptable. in all forms. in all par...

>> did you notice how john mccain was just angry, came in there with that sort of angry aspect and obviously its all prepared what hes going to say and the president is going through his papers to look like hes distracted like he has other things to do while hes doing all this, to show hes above it all. yet they got into that little bicentennial moment. thats there. its a guarantee. >> that is, of course, what captures the political tension of the day. >> how many times do you think theyll repea...

Whats the difference? >> i disagree with ryan this is a conservative blueprint the president put forward. its very much not what the republicans talked about in terms of changing the tax code, portability, reducing mandates. what this is about is getting government more involved in our health care industry. today, 50% of health care is in the hands of government through medicare, medicaid, s-chip and v.a. and the president in his speech september 9th said i want a $900 billion health care plan o...

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...

Try to get a consensus on what they can live with, whether its pre-existing conditions or its portability or throw in something like interstate competition or something on tort reform and say, heres what we can go with. we can go with half your bill. were going to throw in another half thats our version. or two-thirds since you guys won the election and a third of our stuff. then were going to pass it because its better than what weve got. why dont people think like that? >> i dont know. i like ...