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Or do you have a different solution? >> i think broad parameters laid out are a step in the right direction. we haven't had an opportunity to study the particulars. it's absolutely right that republicans should be standing for pro market, pro competition health care re forms that the empower consumers, allow interstate competition, that create a 50--state market and that make health care personal, portable and affordable. >> all of that's in there? >> and disempower government. the difference is obama care says federal government bureaucrats get twee between you and your doctor. haes not what ...

Or do you have a different solution? >> i think broad parameters laid out are a step in the right direction. we haven't had an opportunity to study the particulars. it's absolutely right that republicans should be standing for pro market, pro competition health care re forms that the empower consumers, allow interstate competition, that create a 50--state market and that make health care personal, portable and affordable. >> all of that's in there? >> and disempower government. the difference is obama care says federal government bureaucrats get twee between you and your doctor. haes not what ...

House and they were in the majority they just want to up or down vote. the president basically throwing that right back at them. right now. >> and in the -- process of jamming it all together like this, one big giant monstrosity of when biden was in the senate he called it a naked -- now it is just a majority vote. okay. let's have an up and down vote on tort reform, pre-existing conditions, interstate competition. the president himself said at the end of the day, although he mischaracterized in every single case, the republicans' position was let's have an up or down vote on those things and ...

Between 2% to 13 -- would go up between 10% to 13%. but how they are being to pay for it with a half trillion dollars in tax increases and a a trillion out of medicare. that's the calculation they are making if you count the subsidies that will net out some of the increase in costs to some, but not all folks. the goal should be how do we bring down everyone's costs. there are steps we can take, interstate competition. reform that has been effective in texas and across the country. greater transparency. let the market work rather than more regulation. empower people to spend the money how they ...

Republicans on their ideas in terms offer to the reform which is something we -- in terms of tort reform? that's what we hear from our viewers all the time. >> there are a lot of ideas. interstate competition. there are provisions for interstate competition. the whole idea of creating an exchange where people can buy and sell insurance policies is based on that concept. there are provisions on tort reform. there are provisions that have been accepted that were first proposed by republicans. as you know there were about three months during which senator baucus in the senate engaged in discussio...