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Okay, this holiday season, our family collectively, okay, we embraced it, not knowing if douglas would be around for another holiday to spend with us. there is no way that i would have put forth the effort to reach out to the community and ask for help. if we knew that, you know what? he's got coverage. this is absurd. >> the state medicaid official told us it's their policy to make phone calls, not send letters because they have over a million patients and it's a cost issue. but you're saying no one in your family ever received a phone call? >> anderson, this is the year 2011. we live in a ti...

>> and, kim, time is of the essence? >> it most definitely is. okay. i will be very blunt in stating, okay, this holiday season, our family collectively, okay, we embraced it, not knowing if douglas would be around for another holiday to spend with us. there is no way that i would have put forth the effort to reach out to the community and ask for help if we knew that, you know what, he's got coverage. this is absurd. >> kim, the state medicaid official told us it's their policy to make phone calls, not send letters because they have over a million patients and it's a cost issue. an efficiency...

I will be very blunt in stating, okay, this holiday season, our family collectively, okay, we embraced it, not knowing if douglas would be around for another holiday to spend with us. there is no way that i would have put forth the effort to reach out to the community and ask for help if we knew that, you know what, he's got coverage. this is absurd. >> kim, the state medicaid official told us it's their policy to make phone calls, not send letters because they have over a million patients and it's a cost issue. an efficiency issue. but you're saying you never received and no one in your famil...

They should move forward with it. what senator hatch is saying is simple, if you do that you trun risk of political backlash when democrat desire it in '93, it was the right thing when clinton passed that. it helped us grow. republicans did it in 2005. there might abpolitical switch. what i hear e.j. saying that is a risk they have to take. at the end of the day the country could care less about all of this. they want an answer and at the end of the day jobs will decide this midterm election. >> we're going to come back and talk about the political fallout. i want to ask a point i brought up. ...

Risk of political backlash when democrat desire it in '93, it was the right thing when clinton passed that. it helped us grow. republicans did it in 2005. there might abpolitical switch. what i hear e.j. saying that is a risk they have to take. at the end of the day the country could care less about all of this. they want an answer and at the end of the day jobs will decide this midterm election. >> we're going to come back and talk about the political fallout. i want to ask a point i brought up. number one goal in health care reform was to bend the cost curve to bring down costs. the likes of...