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Health care deductibility just like big businesses and traeszs medical ma lpractice reform and puts the emphasis on the patient and their doctor and we like that. >> not only, let the doctor make designations? >> that's right. >> i want to make the point that republicans are going to come out pretty good this year because people are so unhappy with obama care. but republicans can't win just because the democrats fumbled the ball. you mentioned one thing. are there other ways republicans can win on the issue not only being against obama care but real reform? >> there is. and what we want to do ...

The president said a couple years ago that he was interested in meaningful malpractice reform, but he's done nothing. where did he fulfill the promise he made? >> between 2000 and 2006, the republicans had the house, the senate, the white house. you guys could have done something meaningful about health care, didn't do it. the democrats come in, do something meaningful about health care, wet get your cooperation at all. instead of amending the bill, you guys just want to wreck it. let me tell you, there are points where we might be able to agree. from my state, neither democrats or republicans...

Problem, operated on it three weeks later she had a heart attack. she turned around, she sued him. >> yep. >> she got a $3 million reward. of course, it was overturned three years later, but that doctor was scarred. and the message was sent to everybody in his practice, run an ekg on everybody. >> right. >> it cost, what, $60 billion over ten years, i think cbo says that. >> look, i agree with you, and i was a strong advocate for malpractice reform. by the way, remember, the president was a strong advocate for malpractice reform. he wrote an article when he was a senator in "the new england jo...

We have so much records that are sometimes inaccurate and you can check on electronic records now, and normal exams, if you can put normal male instead of normal female, you don't catch it it's in their records and a lot of duplication of records and misinformation of records and that's at the core of where i am. i'm exactly like him. let the patient pay him $50 or $60, pay that much to get the oil changed in the car and $10 co-pay, i don't think i have it. they don't realize we get paid so little from the insurance companies, their co-pay is basically cash flow for our business and it's hard....

2000 page bill. we need a whole bunch of ten-page bills that every american can read and understand, for example, let's have one bill to deal with purchasing health insurance across state lines. right now, most people don't know it's illegal for a virginian to buy north carolina health insurance, that's silly and it unbelievably reduces competition and vulcanizes the market. mitt romney is talking about doing that, that should be be one bill and move on to whatever they can do for malpractice reform at the federal level. don't roll them all in. it makes for some the ugliest legislation you can...