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That the premiums will go down, these people who hitherto didn't have insurance, will now be able to get preventive tests, so maybe the number of services they need will go down. >> when you explain it like a physician, you are, of public policy, sounds so simple. why does this darn bill have to be as fat as an old sears-roebuck catalog? most people don't like that. they don't like why it's so big and complicated if it's as simple as you just said. >> two facts, the decision today, 199 pages, just deciding the issue of the bill. so talk about length, a lot of issues take time. the second thing...

Perspective on this piece of legislation. i think this piece of legislation was a meaningful accomplishment in expanding coverage for americans, and an absolute abomination when it kem to reforming or ending the corrupt nature of the health care system and it's dysfunction. so i give them points for saying we should cover people, and then i blast them to my greatest level for empowering the health insurance monopolies, not addressing the cost issue, maintaining the employer-based health care system. is there a view on this that's not, again, john, up or down, kill it, make it live, but renovat...

I've been traveling, i'm glad i'm here. listen, i disagree first of all this is theater. it's true that the senate says they're not going to take it up, but bills pass the house, this it goes to the senate if he believes he can win the vote, allow the vote to happen and we'll see it go forward. once it passes the house today, the latest e-mail i just got is the vote will happen around 5:30 today, so let's wait and see what happens. the majority of americans don't like this law for a lot of reasons i agree there are cost problems. i talked about this the other day. let's think about this. when ...

Benefits go out to 26 weeks. now they've extended eight times. we're at 99 weeks. the unemployment rate is still extremely high. big problem is the money's being borrowed and added to the deficit. the deficit is one of the biggest problems we have in terms of future long-term interest rates which are very worrisome to companies and nothing's really being done to attack the root of the problem which is the reluctance of companies, especially small companies, to hire people. putting this in context, in late 2008 and through most of 2009, companies cut back as if there were a depression, expectin...