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Point that you made is, it has the essential benefits like pre-existing conditions are left up to the states. the way people have said it to me at town meetings and across the country and airports and wherever i see people is, they will say, this is a death panel bill. because people will die. martin luther king said of all the inequalities, the most unjust and stunning is the injustice of access to healthcare because people will die. so what we're doing is to fight that legislation and to make it now -- it passed the house. it has only gotten worse. you have to understand, it's part of a deco...

Country. >> that's right. >> can you commit to specific policy areas that the democrats will work with republicans on to make health care better for all americans, even if that means that we have to repeal certain provisions of a law that you worked so lard to pass? >> well, i think that -- i know how we can improve the affordable care act. the bill that the republicans have put forth is not a bill in good faith. as i say, it's called by many a death panel bill because it is there to eliminate that access to affordable care. if the president were to say to me, come in and see what we can do ab...

The whole point right now is to defeat that bill. because that bill raises costs for fewer benefits, has an age tax for anyone 50 to 64, kicks 24 million people -- 24 million fewer people will not have access to health care, undermines medicare and the point that you made is, it has the essential benefits like pre-existing conditions are left up to the states. the way people have said it to me at town meetings and across the country and airports and wherever i see people is, they will say, this is a death panel bill. because people will die. martin luther king said of all the inequalities, the...

Deconstruction of government and to say we're not going to have an affordable care act, we're just going to have a death panel bill posing as a -- let me say this other thing. i think it's really important for you to know this. this bill -- this death panel bill is a tax bill disguised as a health care bill. it moves $600 billion from working class families to the richest people in our country. it's a tax bill in disguise as a health care bill. it's a very dangerous bill to people, children and other living people. it must be stopped. again, you have to understand, there is no good faith in th...

We have a question that goes to that point specifically from dave. he runs a bed and breakfast. >> tell me your name again. >> dave mcdonald. >> leader pelosi, chris, thank you. leader pelosi, earlier you said we all have a responsibility to pull together to govern the country. >> that's right. >> can you commit to specific policy areas that the democrats will work with republicans on to make health care better for all americans, even if that means that we have to repeal certain provisions of a law that you worked so lard to pass? >> well, i think that -- i know how we can improve the affordab...