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Involved. in 1965, we spent $210 a year per capita on health care. in 1965 medicare and medicaid started and a huge infusion of tax dollars just started to cause all kinds of excesses in the cost. and it's never gone down. >> the pharmaceutical companies, you know, that's 12% of the total budget. a full 33% of the total federal budget, $1 trillion, is spent on hospitals, right? large, nonprofit academic medical centers are the folks that are kwlo, you know, when yt a bag of saltwater, saline in the e.r. that's a $1,000. >> or a $10 tylenol. >> what gives you the confidence this bill is the sta...

Through contracts before the new legislature took over. the governor asked for them not to do that. they still came into session. they did not have all their votes counted, so they lost. but they tried to push through a two year contract that was going to force the governor's hand. and so he responded with this particular bill. so the connection is in order to have the concessions, he had to come in heavy handedly with a proposal which he has done in order to get them to concede. >> but let me ask you this question. if it were a stand alone bill, just devoid of the budget issues, would you vot...