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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 warren buffett and others said they aren't. it should have been a cost issue, expand access later. what's truth, what is fiction? >> there are a lot of measures in this bill to hold down costs. some of them are painful which is why it's hard to assemble votes for this. there will never be enough cost controls for everybody, and the more you put in the more votes you lose. i think the cbo says that congressional budget office says over time this bill will reduce...

A significant concession. because what you're doing is this is not something that we have as a giveaway to the south koreans. this is u.s. national security. this is to contain china, this is to send messages that we're engaged in asia. relationship with japan and y south korea. so this enhances america national security, it is not like a cost issue as you mentioned. the president is always wanting to reduce troops in germany, he wants to reduce troops in south korea, all around the world, but, you know, reducing troops is something that is not in the national security interests of the united ...

They need to figure out how to pay for things in this bill. one of those things, the child tax credit was boosted to $2,000. more importantly, at least from a voting perspective, they also boosted the refundability from $1,100 to $1,400. interestingly enough, the obamacare individual mandate, that will be repealed through this bill, not through the health care process that failed earlier, but through this bill. the estate tax, something a lot of republicans have talked about repealing for years now, that won't be repealed because of that cost issue. instead of the exemption will be doubled. th...

Coverage because they're out of work, too sick to work or cannot afford it. >> my husband lost his job three years ago. there was a time we were unemployed. we were told we had no choice. >> when you look at this overall, as a consumer, someone who uses it, what grade would you give our health insurance system? >> i could probably say about a c. >> c. all right. >> maybe a b minus. >> one of the things that comes up, erin, obviously, when you hear from someone like valerie is obviously people with chronic illness, they utilize the health care system more. listen to this. about 1% of people in ...

That's why unions, jehmu, till industries like they killed steel, like they killed big auto. like they're killing airlines and right now, what we're going to have is if they have to go back to the nlrb and put that plan back in washington they'll slowly kill the aircraft manufacturing industry. >> and then. >> then you'll see what happens to the the middle class and the lack of jobs. >> jehmu. >> and hold on one second. >> because of unions. >> hold on one second. jonas, you don't think it's a job issue as a cost issue. >> this is the government preventing them from doing this, may have violat...