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Seniors, white american voters are not buying into the health care deal. if you ask younger people, poor people, people of color, more support for the health care thing. the question on the health care issue comes back to something i was talking about spending. if you say it's going to cost something, it's not going to be deficit neutral, then you see support crater when it comes to health care. you pointed out that is key in looking at this. beyond the deficit and the big spending, people look at it and say, look at president obama's leadership, they have questions about how he has dealt with...

Away the goodies ticket, if you will, the preexisting coverage kicks in. coverage for children as old as 26 kicks in. people at home might immediately see the good stuff before the bad stuff, right? >> the class act a federal program for long-term care will collect premiums long before they start to give out benefits and the program kicks in. that moves the number several hundred million dollars. no, all the payments, you pay into it and the benefits are both illusion s illusioillusion long-term. >> neil: educate me on what the c.b.o. is saying. the first cover sheet read from the c.b.o. is th...

>> deficit neutral, john, but what will it take to make that happen? >> yes. look, i mean, that's the claim. but the problem is, there's a credibility gap on this. we've been debating this for 15 months. the problem is that the american people still don't have a decisive feeling for what's in the bill. there's not broad -- >> but -- >> look, you're a salesman, you understand that's a big problem. this was always a democratic priority. it was never a priority for independence. certainly not republicans. we have a problem. the problem is, is that washington isn't operating on the principles the ...

Cornhusker kickback, that people in nebraska would have different system than everyone else in the country. the american people believe we should be treated equally, fairly. they don't want washington making decisions that affect one state because of who the senator is. secondly, of all the things you ask people, there are three aspects the public doesn't want. they see it as a government take over of healthcare. number two, they realize what it will do to the deficit and debt when you add tens of millions of people guaranteeing the coverage. nobody believe believes that it deficit neutral. th...

>> fourth thing. when he says it's deficit neutral. that's not true. revenue proxz is for 10 years. expenditures for six years. six years of spending, 10 years revenue amount. when you deal with 14 years of 14 years of spending it adds to the deficit by almost a trillion dollars. >> bill: your next book is out pretty soon and all of this is going to be in it. >> in six weeks. hopefully the bill won't have passed. the book is called "2010, take back america, a battle plan." >> bill: dick morris, everybody. three best things about obama care. later, dennis miller has some thoughts on the preside...