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Just -- >> go ahead, i want to go on to another subject. now, malpractice, in the summit, republicans kept talking about malpractice reform, limiting doctors' liability and in fact house leader, john boehner, your leader, said medical malpractice and defensive medicine are the single biggest driver of medical inflation, and that isn't true, is it? >> it is one of the biggest drivers, i think there are other contributing factors, which are not being addressed in this bill but it is a huge contributing factor. >> chris: let me pick up on that, because, again the cbo says and let's put up the num...

>> this is an interesting guy. he is whip smart. i think he is really one of the rising stars in the republican party. the top republican on the house budget committee and the one guy who the president didn't want to mess with at the summit because i think he knows that paul ryan may know more about this stuff than he did and we went through do the premiums go up or down, what about malpractice reform. there are a lot of issues out there. does it bend the cost curve up or down. he makes pretty good sense in explaining going inside the numbers which is what we did with him and trying to explain...

Enough. you support it but you wish there was a public option. which isn't on the table, as you heard today. you heard david gergen talk about potentially a plan "b," a skinny plan as it's being called. this had so much momentum last year, partly into the summer. what happened? >> i would like to see a public option. like many americans and many doctors i'd like to see the private insurance companies held accountable for some of their excessive behavior. i think that more competition in the marketplace is a good thing. i would like to see the plan go forward on several fronts where it hasn't. ...

What happened? >> i would like to see a public option. like many americans and many doctors i'd like to see the private insurance companies held accountable for some of their excessive behavior. i think that more competition in the marketplace is a good thing. i would like to see the plan go forward on several fronts where it hasn't. i would like to see malpractice reform. doctors do undoubtedly practice because of fear of lawsuits. i would like to see universal health care coverage. the republican plan doesn't expand access to health care as much as the obama plan does. and i would like to se...

This had so much momentum last year, partly into the summer. what happened? >> i would like to see a public option. like many americans and many doctors i'd like to see the private insurance companies held accountable for some of their excessive behavior. i think that more competition in the marketplace is a good thing. i would like to see the plan go forward on several fronts where it hasn't. i would like to see malpractice reform. doctors do undoubtedly practice defensive medicine because the fear of lawsuits. i would like to see universal health care coverage. this plan doesn't achieve that...