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Democrats as well. where were you guys in october when they talked about suspending obamacare, repealing it, and then talked about fixing it, when republicans were standing up in october and we know the government shut down afterwards. why weren't any of you six standing up saying, hey, let's make these changes? they have a point here. >> actually i have -- since the day after it passed, the copper plan was prepared last year. the incentives i've talked about several times. the one in this package is revamped. what i find and honestly, it's interesting, if this was not such a political hot pot...

This body, to try to find those folks that want to help us change the program and make it better for consumers and businesses. >> senator, if you weren't trailing in the polls, would you be doing this? >> as i said again, i don't know what polls are reading. but putting that aside, i have proposed changes and if you recall on this show, when we went back and forth on this, you actually produced the document where i made it very clear after the law passed, it wasn't perfect, i had proposed these ideas from afterwards, the law passed from the 1099, firefighters, the copper plan, the business. i'...

Improve the heal care delivery. the two i put on the table, one last year and one earlier this year, versus the copper plant. this creates another option for a lower cost plant, lower premiums, gives more choice to the consumers. what's most interesting about this is it will save money. we've had an independent insurance group review this and they estimate it's $20 billion in savings. along with that, the small business community, the provisions in the original plan, i've heard from a lot of small businesses in alaska and throughout the country that it said the provisions or the exemptions for...

Buying auto insurance. >> reporter: and that is one of the reasons that a group of centrist democrats in the senate are breaking with the administration to propose some legislative fixes to obamacare. they are basically reading the tea leaves. a recent fox news poll just released last night shows 56% of americans are still opposed to obamacare, only 40% in favor of it. jon: so they've trotted out this new proposal. what's in it? >> reporter: yeah. basically, you know, obamacare has three different layers to it, the three plans. it's got the bronze plan, the silver plan and the more extravagant...

House lawmakers voted today to once again get around a 1997 law calling for a major cut in medicare reimbursements to doctors. meanwhile, political survival instincts are kicking in for some endangered democrats who are now proposing major changes to the president's health care reform law. correspondent doug mcelway has that story. >> reporter: a new fox news poll shows four years after obamacare was sign it had remains unpopular with 56% of americans opposed to it, 40% favoring it, and while the president announced today that 6 million have now signed up through the federal and state exchange...