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It is a much more minimalistic plan, basically recyclinged ideas, the interstate sale of insurance, medical malpractice that republicans were pushed and unable to bring into law when they held unified control of the house and senate and white house in the middle part of this decade. they were unable to bring public consensus for those ideas when they had unified control to get them into lawment i think the reality is health care is a very difficult issue. it has defeated every president who's tried for 70 years, a very complex problem. what you're seeing in the end are fundamentally different ...

Plan, basically recyclinged ideas, the interstate sale of insurance, medical malpractice that republicans were pushed and unable to bring into law when they held unified control of the house and senate and white house in the middle part of this decade. they were unable to bring public consensus for those ideas when they had unified control to get them into lawment i think the reality is health care is a very difficult issue. it has defeated every president who's tried for 70 years, a very complex problem. what you're seeing in the end are fundamentally different divisions in the parties about ...

Who have been working a very long time on figuring out how can we control the huge expansion of entitlements. almost all of the long-term deficit and debt that we face relates to the exploding costs of medicare and medicaid. almost all of it. that is the single biggest driver of our federal deficit. and if we don't get control over that, we can't get control over our federal budget. now, i'm telling all of you things you already know. maybe more personally i should just mention the fact that i now have about as good health care as anybody can have. i've got a doctor right downstairs. and all o...

We've got to rein in the exploding costs of health care. the price tag for a single hospital admission can make your head spin. and we wondered about those eye-popping bills and how they break down. so "360's" m.d., sanjay gupta, is here to show us. sanjay? >> you are absolutely right, jessica. first of all, most people do agree on that one issue that costs are really at the heart of this. if you can control costs, you can control a lot of other things. but really, you know, the individuals, when they go to the hospital, they get these bills. and i have been just collecting these bills and loo...

Deficit and debt that we face relates to the exploding costs of medicare, and medicaid. almost all of it. that is the single biggest driver of our federal deficit, and if we don't get control over that, we cannot get control over our federal budget. now, i am telling all of you things you already know. maybe more personally i should just mention the fact that i now have about as good health care as anybody could have. i have a doctor right downstairs. and all of us, when i was in the senate and all of you, as house and senate members have good health care, but, remember maybe when you were you...