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People are calling representatives and hospitals saying where is my free health care? is it that people believe what the government tells them? did people believe the president? >> president has the bully pulpit he's been saying this is going to give everybody in america health care. we had 10 years of tax increases in medicare cuts to pay for six years of spending that spending doesn't kick in until 2014 on health care. premium increases start phasing in now. what people are going to get is not what they think they are getting based upon the rhetoric that was used to sell this bill. >> sean: ...

People are calling representatives and hospitals saying where is my free health care? is it that people believe what the government tells them? did people believe the president? >> president has the bully pulpit he's been saying this is going to give everybody in america health care. we had 10 years of tax increases in medicare cuts to pay for six years of spending that spending doesn't kick in until 2014 on health care. premium increases start phasing in now. what people are going to get is not what they think they are getting based upon the rhetoric that was used to sell this bill. >> sean: ...

I brought my little health savings account card. a lot of us have these. right now we can buy aspirin with them, robitussin, over-the-counter drugs. with this new bill you will not be able to use this card to buy over-the-counter medicine tax-free. you'll have to get a doctor's note, specifically, even if you want to buy aspirin with this. they're trying to bring down health care costs that way. it will cost you more. the contributions that you make to this account, right now they're typically capped at about $5,000 a year. that cap is going to be cut in half. so you will only be able to put i...

Send to the president once and for all his signature issue. dana bash, cnn, capitol hill. conservative radio host rush limbaugh is pulling punches and he's aiming squarely at an 11-year-old boy. it was one of the pictures of the week. remember this? marcelas owens was the young boy standing next to president obama when mr. obama signed the landmark health care reform bill. owens' mother died after losing her health insurance, but his story became a punch line for conservative hosts, including limbaugh. >> i would also say this to marcelas owens. well, your mom would have still died because o...

There were no gimmys today in that room. one of them was senator from iowa, tom harkin, chairman of the senate health committee who has spent his life working on health care reform, who was one of the most unselfish people i've ever met in my life. and i revere him as a friend and on behalf of this audience, and myself, senator harkin, good job, my man. >> ed, thank you so much. thanks for hanging in there and really getting the facts out to people. more and more that's what we have to do. get the facts out. now that this is the law of the land no more where there be sort of a speculation. we ...