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It. did you sense that in the room? it seemed as though there were a lot of sparks flying. >> senator mccain, obviously, is very concerned about the sweetheart deals, things that have been promised in the campaign that he saw to be on c-span and only 13 months later or something on c-span that there hasn't been the openness that the president had promised when he was running against senator mccain. and i think that all americans have been very upset with these sweetheart deals, whether it's the nebraska -- the louisiana purchase, the cornhusker kickback, what's happening in florida with medica...

See if we can't move forward some incremental steps lowering the cost of health care and allowing more americans to be insured, allowing people to buy insurance across state lines and things like that. >> i know the schools are good in minnesota. i hope you did well in math. you might want to bring your calculator tomorrow. here's what the american public doesn't realize right now, the sweetheart deal that the senator got in nevada, the cornhusker kickback, isn't it true that every state is going to get that as a result and also that little kickback that the unions got with the cadillac plans,...

President taking a hands-on approach, bringing to the table his own health care proposal, a $950 billion plan based on the senate bill passed late last year with some key changes. it drops the controversial cornhusker kickback, millions in extra medicaid funding secured by nebraska senator ben nelson. it delays taxes on expensive cadillac health insurance plans and it gives the federal government authority to limit excessive insurance premium hikes. >> there you go. >> important reform for this california mother. >> do i go without insurance? does my daughter go without insurance? what are we ...

Insurance policy of your choice. rewards for wellness and fitness. small businesses joining to negotiate with health insurance companies. we have a long list of proposals that have not been included that we believe preserves the quality of health care. the second thing, the reason why we have to start over is because we are and the american people object strenuously to the sleaze of the deal-making that went on in putting together this 2400 page bill. the cornhusker kickback, louisiana purchase, deal for florida, states all over buying votes behind closed doors one of the worst of which one th...

And one of the things that got it into trouble were all these sweetheart deals. one of the first sweetheart deals we heard about and i believe we first read about it in the pages of the web site and it talked about how the white house has struck a deal with big pharma and they were going to get a sweeted heart deal. they would accept a certain amount of cuts and in return, they would put a bunch of ads on television. then came the cornhusker kickback, louisiana purchase and all that stuff and brings us to where we are today which is stalled. the guy that's headed up big pharma for a while, the...